publish time

14/01/2021

author name Arab Times

publish time

14/01/2021

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 14: The Ministry of Interior will start disbursing the "Smart driving license" to all motorists, (Kuwaitis  and expats) starting from Sunday.

The traffic departments in all governorates will receive expats and Bedouns for replacing driving licenses with smart chip that allow them to drive vehicles in any country in the world, reports Al Rai. The new licenses have security specifications and are the latest in the world to create fraud is impossible with it. It contains a smart chip in which data of its owner is stored.

The fees are the same and there is no increase in them, earlier the smart driver's license was restricted only to GCC countries. The traffic department have added a solution towards problems faced by Kuwaitis and expats to drive abroad using the same license.