Expats with expired residency can apply for 3 month extension

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Residence Affairs Major General Anwar Al-Barjas issued an instructions which enables expatriates with expired residency permits to apply for 3 month extension, local Arabic news paper Al-Anbaa reported.

According to Al-Anba daily, this instruction already came into effect from last Wednesday. Expatriates who's residency expired due to various reasons such as expiry of passport, not enough validity for passport, etc can benefit from this decision and they can apply for 3 month extension through the link https://eres.moi.gov.kw/individual/en/auth/login.

The daily also reported that if the head of the family is outside the country and his wife and children are inside Kuwait, they will be also granted temporary residence according to the prescribed conditions and conditions.

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