Is this true?
I heard today that there is a new law coming out in Kuwait where expats (like me) will only be allowed to live in Kuwait for 6 years. After 6 years I have to leave the country and I can only come back after 2 years. If this is the case I might as well pack my bags and leave now.
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Dec 2, 2005
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14 Comments, add your own...
1. Purgatory72 | December 2nd, 2005 at 10:03 pm
its a proposal for GCC countries, so needs to go through the long cycle of approvals, so still too early for anything concerete and does not indicate any details on what type of foreign residents.
2. charisma | December 2nd, 2005 at 10:31 pm
hehe no way!
it sounds like a joke
no?
3. Kthekuwaiti | December 2nd, 2005 at 11:12 pm
Its 5 years .. and its a gcc thing(I highly doubt it will actually be created). You have a great employee for 5 years (about the time it takes them to actually fit in and start handling big projects) and then they have to leave?
4. q8Sultana | December 3rd, 2005 at 12:27 am
I bet you could stay if you had wasta…
5. unknown | December 3rd, 2005 at 12:49 am
Mark why you still in kuwait, does anything attract you except your job
how about lebanon and dubai?
6. I the Beholder | December 3rd, 2005 at 1:12 am
They can’t be serious! Who thought of such a stupid law!!
7. Mo Hat | December 3rd, 2005 at 1:18 am
Nah, they must be fucking assholes to make a law like that.
Well, they recently put in a new law for driver’s license where you have to have a salary over 400KD and be at the age of 21…who the fuck comes up with this shit?
8. forzaq8 | December 3rd, 2005 at 6:40 am
this is the kind of law that sound good on paper but doesn’t work logicly
9. Kuwaiti Mal Awal | December 3rd, 2005 at 8:33 am
nothing of GCC rules gets implemented. if they did implement them we should have unified IDs and driving licenses. and a commen currency so let them go to hell.
10. Mark | December 3rd, 2005 at 8:35 am
forza how does it sound good on paper??? I can’t think of anything positive about this, not towards locals nor towards expats. Everyone would be losing out.
11. Tata Botata | December 3rd, 2005 at 9:53 am
That’s just stupid
12. muscati | December 3rd, 2005 at 11:53 am
It is a pan-GCC law and the time limit is 6 years. It looks like all GCC countries are in agreement to implement the law but what’s still not ironed out is the exceptions. SOme countries only want this law to be applicable to unskilled labor. Others want the only exception to be manager grade expats. I am sure by the time it is finally implemented it will not apply to professionals like yourself.
13. Talal | December 4th, 2005 at 9:17 am
God this is what I hate about the Gulf. You bring in people to friggin BUILD you from the ground up, and then once they’re done with you, yalla ma3issalama, 7illoo 3anna.
Such a shame.
14. forzaq8 | December 6th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
see mark you can’t think government , because you always have logic thinking
i’m in the government , you have to know how to suspend logic else you would lose it
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