Security campaign in Kuwait checked the violators' situations

An official source in the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior confirmed that the campaign to confront illegal residents in Kuwaiti has succeeded in modifying the status of more than 20,000 expatriates, some of whom left the country, while others legalized their residence status.

General Ahmed al-Ragib, the assistant minister of interior, said that Kuwait instituted an inspection campaign to search for residency violators, allowing and amnesty period that expired on October 15.

He said all of this contributed to encouraging 20,330 expatriates from different nationalities to check their situations as 4,458 of them left Kuwait, while 15,872 others preferred to stay and work in Kuwait after attaining the new residence visas.