Kuwait’s expat bill to impact 800,000 Indians

According to a report by ANI, the legal and legislative committee of Kuwait's National Assembly has approved the draft expat quota bill which could result in 8 lakh Indians leaving the country. The National Assembly's legal and legislative committee has determined that the draft expat quota bill is constitutional.

The expat quota bill intends to introduce a 'quota system' for employing foreigners in Kuwait in order to address what the Kuwaiti lawmakers term as a 'demographic imbalance'.

The Indian expatriate community, which is the largest expat group in Kuwait, should not exceed 15 percent of the national population, as per the expat bill. It also calls for reducing the number of Egyptians, who form the second largest expatriate community, to 10 percent of Kuwait's total population.

The report stated that 'last month, Kuwait's prime minister, Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah, proposed decreasing the number of expats from 70 percent to 30 per cent of the population'.

The bill was deemed constitutional by the National Assembly's legal and legislative committee on Monday and will now be transferred to the respective committee so that a comprehensive plan is created.