Visit Visa violators - Move to take strict action against sponsors

Authorities has introduced a plan to pursue expatriates who entered the country on visit visas and violated the residence law.
According to the new plan, the authorities will contact persons — Kuwaitis and expatriates — under whose sponsorship the expatriate entered the country on visit visa. According to the plan the sponsors will be given a three-day grace period to help the violators of the law to leave the country and if they fail to get the violator leave the country their transactions at all government departments — immigration, traffic, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Social Affairs — will be suspended.

According to local daily report, a team has already been formed to contact the sponsors and notifying them about the existence of violators and give them the grace period. The team will also compile a list of sponsors after the end of the grace period and send it to the concerned government departments. Report also added that the most violators of the visit visa law are Syrians, Egyptians and Iranians.

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