Those who deserve a grace period in order to rectify their legal positions in Kuwait are those expats who have already shown their willingness to resolve whatever legal complications relating to their immigration status in Kuwait.
Moreover, I call upon our government and the Ministry of Interior to continue their crackdown on illegal expats, especially those who tend to be more involved in suspicious activities.
Most of our expatriate workforce are hardworking and honest people. However, we can distinguish between those hard working and law-abiding expats and those who exploit Kuwait’s generosity and benevolence.
In other words andmetaphorically speaking: any number of individuals who come from a particular nationality and usually get involved in various crimes need to be double-checked, not just twice, but as frequently as possible. I know that there are in Kuwait hundreds of thousands of honest and lawabiding expats who daily enrich our Kuwaiti national experience. We see many of these honest expatswaiting in line in government departments to rectify their legal positions.
However, those who ignore our laws and regulations, and violate the basic immigration requirements of their work status do not deserve any grace period.
Rewarding those who willingly and knowingly violate our immigration regulations and procedures by allowing them a grace period is not right. No one has the right to violate our residency laws; while at the same time ask for more amnesty. In some neighboring countries, cracking down on violators of national residency laws is usually implemented to the letter of the law, with almost no amnesty. Residency violators aggravate the economic conditions of other expats; exploit our health and municipal infrastructures; ruin our roads, devastate our natural environment.
In fact, I am of the opinion of not giving any additional amnesty to violators of residency laws; and those who are victims of iqama exploitation should have contacted the respective authorities earlier.
