Chairman of Kuwait Engineers Society Faisal Al-Atel said the society examined the degrees of 34,000 engineers applying to renew their work permits with the manpower authority and that 4,000 were rejected. Atel justified the rejection to the fact that some applicants do not hold bachelor degrees, others were not listed in their own countries and most of the degrees were below the level of engineers. “The majority of the rejected degrees were of Asian applicants,” he stressed.