Interior Ministry deported nearly 18,000 violators and loose laborers during 2015 and the first half of 2016, local daily reported. The report also says that the authorities took decision to ban citizens of seven countries from visiting Kuwait - Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh during this period.

It also rejected sponsorship by citizens who trade in residences, while 70 cases were sent to court during the past two years.

The Interior Ministry also put forward its views to resolve the demographic imbalance, which include setting a quota for all nationalities without exception, stopping ‘inflated’ nationalities and employing workers already in Kuwait instead of bringing them from abroad, in order to benefit from available expats and reduce their dependence on the family visa, which does not allow them to work.