Egypt ambassador asked to urge Egyptians to comply with curfew

KUWAIT CITY, April 14: The Ministry of Interior reminds the Indian residence law violators that they can register to leave the country without paying fines and keeping the option to return to Kuwait between April 16 and April 20.

The registrations centers are the Primary School for Girls, Block 1, Street 76 in Farwaniya for women and Al Muthanna Primary School for Boys, Block 1, Street 122 for male violators of the law.

Also, a security source said hundreds of Bangladeshis have flocked to the registration centers in Farwaniya to benefit from the amnesty issued by the Minister of Interior, Anas Al-Saleh.

Meanwhile, Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials met with the Egyptian ambassador in the country to clarify the need to urge residency violators among members of the Egyptian community to adhere to special instructions regarding the current curfew and explain that such measures are in the interest of all, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting informed sources.

They told the daily that the agreement is to resume the evacuation flights of Egyptians who are in violation of residency law next week after the recent suspension.

In the same context, sources hinted the Foreign Ministry will meet with representatives from the Indian Embassy in Kuwait to put in place a mechanism to evacuate its nationals who are in violation of the residency law, seeing the large number of the community in the country and high rate of the COVID-19 infection.

Sources noted the meeting will discuss the need for the Indian Embassy to raise awareness on various methods to avoid transmission, and to review those complaining of the symptoms to hospital immediately before coming into contact with others.

For the second consecutive day, the Ministry of Interior continued to receive residence violators from the Bangladeshi community who wish to take advantage of the grace period to leave the country without paying fines and with the possibility of returning, an initiative that began on the first of April and slated to end at the end of the month.

Security sources told the daily that about 700 Bangladeshi residency violators from both sexes were registered on Sunday, in preparation for completing the procedures that would allow them to exit the country to their homeland.

Sources pointed out that many of those who have presented themselves had expired passports, which prompted the security officers to send them back to go to their embassy to be issued travel document that would allow them to leave the country.