Kuwait deports 3,000 expats monthly: Latest figures

Cairo: Nearly 3,000 expatriates are deported from Kuwait every month on legal grounds, according to latest figures.

The deportations are conducted after court orders are issued against those expatriates in connection to criminal cases, or administrative deportation orders made for the public good, Al Anba newspaper reported quoting a security source.

In case the sponsor or the deportee fails to provide a travel ticket, the ticket is reserved at the Interior Ministry's expense. 

Later, a financial claim is filed against the sponsor, be a company or an individual, for the value of the ticket, explained the source.

The sponsor is blocked from recruiting workers from abroad until the ticket is paid.

The source pointed out that the Interior Ministry's Deportation Department works to deport the expat violators as quickly as possible, with the average time spent by a deportee in custody being three days when he/she has a passport or an emergency travel document.

But there are cases involving longer time due to the slow procedures of some embassies in issuing travel documents for their nationals, or due to a travel ban and an order from the public prosecution for a deportee to show up at court hearings.

As for deportees without travel documents, the General Administration of Correctional Institutions is addressed to take the necessary measures by contacting the Foreign Ministry that in turn contacts the embassy of the country to which the would-be deportee belongs to issue a travel document for him/her.

Kuwait has recently opened a new deportation facility that can accommodate approximately 1,000 males and 400 females. The new building provides all necessary services including health clinics.