Ministry of Interior issued an internal instructions to make lists of all expat employees pending terminating their contracts, local daily Kuwait Times reported. According to report, many expat administrative employees at the traffic, citizenship and passport departments will be laid off in view of the availability of citizens qualified to replace them, in addition to the need to transfer extra Kuwaiti employees from other interior ministry departments to the above mentioned ones.

The daily, quoting sources added that all expat administrative employees in other interior ministry departments, with the exception of legal advisers, will be laid off within a maximum of two years.