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Illegal residents face deportation |
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Tuesday, 05 July 2011 00:42 |
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KUWAIT: Around 100 residents in Kuwait face deportation as part of stringent measures taken against illegal residents that failed to avail of the Amiri amnesty.
According to officials, the expatriates in question paid fines and submitted necessary documents to obtain residence permits before the expiry of the deadline. The grace period, put into effect on March 1 ended last month, allowed residency violators to either leave the country without paying fines or being blacklisted. They also paid fines to legalize their stay.
Despite complying with requirements, bureaucratic snags and slow procedures prevented their transactions from being completed before the deadline," one official said, explaining on condition of anonymity that the Immigration Department rejected their documents. "If they are arrested, their fate will be immediate deportation for a mistake failed to commit," reported Al-Qabas.
The Ministry of Interior's General Migration Department stopped processing documents that were submitted before the deadline, even those who submitted transactions prior to the Amnesty's period's expiry date were rejected, reported Al-Rai.
According to officials quoted in another news report, other departments received orders from Major General Abdullah Al-Rashid Acting Undersecretary Assistant for Citizenship and Passports Affairs to suspend all transactions concerning residence permits that expired before the deadline. - kuwaittimes
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