Kuwait: The foreigners’ residency law includes a visit fee of 10 dinars per month

The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Kuwait, Sheikh Fahad Yousef Saud Al-Sabah, issued the executive regulations for the Foreigners’ Residence Law Decree, which included details of the conditions and fees for entry visas to Kuwait, of all types, in addition to everything related to the conditions and fees for visits and residence.

Article 39 specifies a fee of 10 dinars per month for 9 types of entry visas for a visit, which are: a government visit, a commercial visit, a family visit, a private visit, a visit for treatment, and a visit for multiple visits. Travels, a visit for tourism, a visit for commercial activities, a visit for cultural or social activities. The article also included 10 dinars for 3 types of visas, which are: entry visa for traffic, entry visa for drivers of transport vehicles (trucks – buses), and emergency entry visa.

The article included the application of a fee of 10 dinars for 9 types of entry visas (entry visas) for residence: work in the government sector, the private sector, entry for domestic workers and those in Its ruling is practicing a commercial or industrial activity, joining a family, studying, a foreign investor, a temporary government contract, and temporary work for the oil sector.

It also set fees of 20 dinars for 5 categories: working in the government sector, Article (17), working in the private sector, Article (18), residence according to Article (23) for foreign students, illegal residents who are granted residency for the first time after obtaining foreign passports, and military personnel who were in the category of illegal residents. They obtained foreign passports and their services ended with retirement, the families of foreign martyrs in accordance with Article (30), clerics, imams and preachers of Husseiniyat in accordance with Article (31).

The fees also included 10 dinars for two categories: the residency of the domestic worker and those of the like in accordance with Article 20 for Kuwaiti families, and the residency of a foreigner who is a widow or divorced citizen and has children from him in accordance with Article (28). It also set fees of 50 dinars for 3 categories: the foreign partner according to Article (19), the foreign investor according to Article (21), and the foreign property owner according to Article (25).

As for the residency fees for a foreigner as a self-sponsor according to Article (24), they amounted to 500 Kuwaiti dinars for one year.

Article 39, in its third clause, set fees for joining a breadwinner for husband, wife, and children at 20 dinars for 3 categories: Government work. According to Article (17), private work according to Article (18), to study according to Article (23).

The same article also specifies in its fourth clause the fees for joining a family member other than the wife and children according to Article (29) at a value of 300 dinars.

The law of residence of foreigners in the State of Kuwait stipulates that a foreigner may not enter or leave the State of Kuwait unless he holds a valid passport issued by his country’s competent authorities or any other recognized authority, or holds a document that serves as a substitute for A passport issued by one of the aforementioned authorities authorizes its holder to return to his country or to the country issuing this document, and the passport or document is presented at the port to document the entry or exit movement.

It also stipulates that a foreigner may not enter or exit the State of Kuwait except from one of the following ports: Kuwait International Airport, Abdali Port, Al-Salmi Port, Nuwaiseeb Port, North Al-Ahmadi Port, South Al-Ahmadi Port, Shuaiba Port, Shuwaikh Port, Al-Zour Port, Port Doha, the port of the fourth refinery, and Umm Al-Maradim.

The law requires that a foreigner enter the State of Kuwait that he must have an entry visa issued by the General Administration of Residence Affairs, or from any of the Kuwaiti ports or from one of the Kuwaiti authorities competent to do so abroad, or that he have a valid regular residence. Nationals of countries in which a decree is issued based on the proposal of the Minister of Interior and on the condition of reciprocity are exempted from obtaining an entry visa.

It was also required to obtain a regular residence permit. To join a family member coming from abroad, the monthly salary of a foreigner residing in the State of Kuwait must not be less than 800 Kuwaiti dinars. In determining the foreigner’s monthly salary, the wage resulting from work in the profession on the basis of which he was granted residency is taken into consideration. The Director General of the General Administration of Residence Affairs may make exceptions from the salary requirement for those residing or for those born inside the State of Kuwait, or for those born outside it whose age does not exceed 5 years to parents residing there, in accordance with the controls he specifies in this article. The matter.

9 categories are excluded from the salary requirement: legal researchers in the government sector, professors of universities, colleges, and higher institutes, mentors, teachers, social workers, and psychologists in the government sector, engineers in the government and private sector, imams, preachers, mosque muezzins, and memorizers of the Holy Qur’an, employees of the Ministry of Health and military authorities, including pharmacists, the nursing staff, including nurses, paramedics, and those holding various medical technical positions. Its specializations include employees of international news stations, including journalists, media figures and correspondents, coaches and players in sports federations and clubs affiliated with the government sector, preparers of the dead and those responsible for burying them.

Article 36 of the law stipulates that it is not permitted to issue an entry visa to work in the profession of a driver or representative in accordance with Articles (17, 18, 20) of this decision for a foreigner who was residing in the State of Kuwait and occupies one of those two professions, except after two years have passed. Date of his departure from the country.

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