June 14th, 2023 at 01:28 pm
Kuwait Cancels Over a Million Visas of Expats in 3 Years
Local sources say that Kuwait has taken away more than 1.15 million visas from expats for the past three years. The country has also kicked out thousands of illegal expats who broke the rules about where they could live and work.
Deportations in 2023
67,000 people left the country between January 2022 and April 2023. In the first three months of 2023, orders for “administrative deportation” were given to 11,000 of these people.
Deportations in 2022
In 2022, Kuwait sent home about 40,000 illegal expats who had broken rules about where they could live and work. The Arabic newspaper Al-Qabas says that the residency of 56,279 expats was taken away in the year 2022.
Several things led to the cancellation of these residences, including the owner’s wish to move out and removal orders for breaking labor and residence laws.
Market Recovery and New Entries
Even though the COVID-19 outbreak has had an effect on many fields, the local job market has recently seen a lot of people looking for work. Official figures showed that the job market improved a lot in 2022, when 67,000 people moved to the country for the first time. 64% of these were people who worked in homes.
Expatriates Leaving in 2021
In 2021, 227,000 expats left Kuwait, and about 160,000 of them did so without being paid. Most of these people worked as housekeepers in the private and family sectors.
About 750,000 people work as domestic workers in Kuwait. This is about 22% of the total foreign workforce, which is made up of 3.4 million people.
In conclusion, the fact that Kuwait has taken away more than 1.15 million visas from expats in the past three years shows that the country’s job market has changed in a big way. Kuwait is trying to control the labor market and make sure people follow residence and work rules. This is shown by the influx of new workers and the deportation of illegal residents.
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