Example of one of the classrooms where the children of illegalresidents are taught and which are claimed to be unsuitable bythe latter, although such schools provide free of charge educationand the costs are fully paid through the Charitable Fund forEducation. Classroom
Copy of a birth notification of an illegal residentcertifying his father is of Iraqi nationality
Copy of a work permit outside the country for anIraqi citizen claming that he is illegal resident
Copy of a State-of-Iraq-issued social insurancecard of a person stating that he is illegal resident
A copy of an Iraqi citizen military service card who is stating that he is illegal residentThe holder of this document (military service card for the persons enlisted in theIraqi army) issued in 1971 is of Iraqi nationality.
Copy of the birth certificate of an illegal residentcertifying that his father is of Iraqi nationality
1987 Census of the Iraqi Population Copy of the census form of the Iraqi population showing that its holder is registered in the census and that the latter states that he is illegal residentThe above mentioned person is registered in the census conducted by theIraqi government in 1987 for the Iraqi nationals. And this document shows hisnationality, his place of residence and his date of birth.
Notice of Departure Copy of a notice of departure of an illegally residing family through one of the State of Kuwait’s exits in 1994.Copy of a \"notice of departure\" by which the family departed to its originalcountry through the Kuwaiti exite \"Abdely\". Yet, the children of the family living inKuwait claimed they are illegal residents.
Judicial Record of an Illegal Resident Copy of a judicial record indicating the nationality of its holder and where the latter states that he is illegal residentThe Central Agency for Remdying Illegal Residents States worked diligently withthe appropriate state systems to issue such document that reveals the origenalcitizenship its holder has been concealing.
Models of some Documents indicating Original Nationalities for Illegal Residents
Second: Nationalities ReportsThe Central Agency searches and studies files of someillegal residents to prepare reports of candidate to obtain theKuwaiti nationality in accordance with the Kuwaiti NationalityLaw No .15 of 1959, the approved road map and submitit to the Council of Ministers noting that Nationalities is asovereign right to the state and interests of the nation shouldbe taken into consideration in this case.We would like to clarify that since 1992 until now of about16,377 thousands individuals were naturalized.
The Central Agency Chief Executive «Mr. Saleh Youssef Al Fadalah» meeting with the working group of the United Nations concerned with the issue of (Discrimination against Women) in Law and Practice.The Central Agency’s participationin the discussion about the Stateof Kuwait first report concerningHuman Rights at the League of ArabStates
The Central Agency Chief Executive«Mr. Saleh Youssef Al Fadalah» meetingwith Prince «Zeid Bin Ra’ad» HighCommissioner of the Office of the UnitedNations for Human Rights The Central Agency Chief Executive «Mr. Saleh Youssef Al Fadalah» meeting with the Head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) «Dr. Hanan Hamdan»
The Activities that the Central Agency is doing in thefield of Human Rights:1. Co-operation with United Nations (Commissioner of refugees) through the re-settlement program which is shown in the procedures given facilities for the exit of the illegal residents to foreign countries as well in the re-union process.2. Co-operation with Ministry of Interior (General Administration for Citizenship and Passports Department) through issuing (Article 17 passports) to facilitate the illegal residents exit to foreign countries and remedying their situation besides giving them passports particularly issued for these countries.3. The Central Agency also co-operate with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Human Rights Section) through sharing in the agreements that are related to Human Rights issue, moreover, providing them with all the statistics data and replies received, and then participating in (State of Kuwait human rights reports) discussion at the United Nations and the League of Arab States.
Numbers of Illegal residents who hadtheir status adjusted as per their originalnationalities till the mid of the year 2015:No Nationality Number 1 Saudi Arabia 5704 2 Syria 802 3 Iraq 981 4 Iran 98 5 Jordan 49 6 other nationalities 748 8382 TotalThe Central Agency continually provides a package of incentivesto illegal residents who adjust their legal status and come upwith their original nationalities. For instance, the Agency grantsall their family members a five-year residency permit with nofees incurred, a valid registration card giving them the right forfree- of charge educational and health services, ration cards andpriority in recruitment at public agencies and bodies.
Second: The Centeral Agencies technical and executiveefforts are shown throuh: • First: 1. Adjusting the states of the illegal residents. • Second: 2. Considering the eligibility to acquire the Kuwaiti nationality and issuance of an Amiri decree for this purpose.First:1. Adjusting the Status of the illegal residents• The Central Agency adjust the status of illegal residents by extracting their original nationalities or travel passports, then they would be granted the residency in Kuwait, in accordance with Article (24) of the Kuwaiti Code of residence of foreigners No. (17/1959).• Around 7303 illegal residents had their situation adjusted since the establishment of the Central Agency, from 2011 up to December 2015. This indicates many of illegal residents have hidden their passports or have destroyed their original nationality papers.• The number of the illegal residents will further exceed, after the research and investigations are being conducted to find more illegal residents who are affected by the adjusted situation resident such as children, grandchildren and parents.
2. Services of Public Authority for Housing Welfare• Providing houses with lower costs. There were 4800 residential units for illegal residents.• Both Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior are paying housing allowances for their employees.3. Accommodation Services related to Ministry of Social Affairs & Labor.4. Services of Public Institution for Social Security through Paying Retirement Pensions to the Army and Police Personnel.
Youssef Al Ahmed Alsaqer charity is offering various activities for the illegal residents in Kuwait
4. Sheikh Abdulla Al Nouri Charity Society:• The Charity society provided in cash and in-kind aid with a value of 125,130 thousand KD during 2016.5. Bashayer AL-Khair Charity Society:• The Charity society provided in cash and in-kind aids with a value of 50,980 thousand KD in 2015 and 2016 including monthly aids, summer and winter clothing, electrical appliances and debt payments.6. Alnajat Charity Society:• The Charity society provided in cash and in-kind aids with a value of 183,852 thousand KD in 2015.5. Yousef Al Ahmad Al Saqr Charity Society:• The Charity society provided in cash and in-kind aids with a value of 1,047.711 thousand KD during the period from 2008 till 2016.
Second: Society Charity Entites1. Patient Benefits Fund:• The fund provided several aids between 2015 and 2016 with a total amount of 496.572 thousand KD including medical appliances, medication, service fees of hospitals and operations.2. Social Reform Society:• The society provided financial aids of 687,335 thousand KD during 2015.• The society also provided other aids in an amount of 335,073 thousand KD including Ramadan breakfasting, sacrifices, feast pocket money, orphan’s clothing and breakfast meals during 2015.• The society also provided in-kind assistance an amount of 1,220.266 million KD during 2016, includes monthly sponsorships, payment of tuition fees, electrical appliances and distributing sacrifice meats from which 14,007 families benefited.3. Society for Islamic Heritage Revival:• The Society provided various aids with a value of 1,846.516 KD during 2015 and 2016 including alms, Zakat, grants, clothing, electrical appliances and foodstuffs.• Monthly salaries in amount of 60,039 thousand KD were provided.
The State of Kuwait also provides other services and rights to illegal res-idents not mentioned in the Council of Ministers Decree No. (409 / 2011)as followsThis is done through national and governmental charity committees withtotal aids of aboutT (25,306.786) KD during 2015 – 2016.:First: Governmental Charity Organizations1. Zakat House Services:• The Zakat House assumed the DNA testing costs which amounted to KWD 814,300 for 9,580 persons.• In the first half of 2014, the total financial aid received by 13,414 families amounted to KWD 6,731,1654 .• Issuance of health insurance cards where a total of 56,547 persons benefited therefrom at a cost of KWD 3,812,107.• Provision of in-kind allowances including foodstuffs, clothing and electrical appliances where in 2013, In-kind allowances of KWD 69,880 were provided to 5,357 families.• Implementation of the project “ Preparing the Young Illegal Residents for Work” , bringing the number of beneficiaries (135) with a cost of KWD 158,300.
No. Service Type Facts and Figures A total of 1,871 illegal residents with disabilities are registered in the Central Agency, and benefiting from a diverse range of facilities and services that guarantee their inclusion as well as positive contribution to the Kuwaiti society.The Supreme Council for the Disabled pursuant to the law issued by the Public Authority for the Affairs of the Disabled – the Convention on the \"Rights of Persons with Disabilities\", the State of Kuwait has signed lately- to insure the following services: • Issuance of letters addressed to the Zakat house and the Patient Assistance Fund requesting financial support. • Payment of a full education grant to the disabled children of Kuwaiti Care for mothers married to non-Kuwaitis in the Authority-owned schools and10 people with kindergartens. Disability • Issuance of an official disability ID to giving them priority in the job recruitment process at the public sectors, to allowing them to use the public transport free of charge and to have the traffic plates for car parking. • Issuance of certificates entitling them to reduced working hours to be submitted to the employers of the Kuwaiti mothers with disabled child born to a non-Kuwaiti father. • Financial allowances to the disabled children of members of the illegaly residing employers in the army or police upon approval of the Supreme Council for the Disabled. Determination of the individuals’ share in the foodstuffs listed in the supply card (rice, sugar, vegetal oil, milk, infant formulas, cheese, lentils, chicken11 Supply Cards meat and tomato paste),in year 2016 a total of 90,000 illegal residents benefited from this scheme at a cost of KWD 5,735,838 in year 2016.
No. Service Type Facts and Figures Traffic The Ministry of Interior provides driving licenses as 2056 licenses were8 Services issued during 2016. • 1903 illegal residents have been employed in governmental agencies since 2011 until 2015. • 2030 of illegal residents among sons of Kuwaiti women in Ministry of Defense in 2015. Employment9 • Joining the armed forces was open for sons of military persons among illegal residents in the Kuwaiti army. • 203 illegal residents were employed in consumer cooperative societies during 2016.
No. Service Type Facts and Figures • Illegal residents enjoy free healthcare through the Charity Treatment Fund where healthcare is provided in governmental hospitals. Beneficiaries from this fund during the period from September 2003 until the end of 2012 reached 56547 illegal residents with a cost of 3812107 KD. Free2 Treatment • Illegal residents shall be treated like the Kuwaitis in terms of fees and salaries in accordance to the Ministerial Decree No. (2011/86) as they are exempted from the fees of occupancy of treatment rooms, orthodontics, hormone analysis, lenses, installing cardiac stents and artificial limbs.3 Birth 2293 birth certificates were issued during 2016. Certificates4 Death 155 death certificates were issued during 2016. Certificates5 Marriage 689 marriage contracts were registered during 2016. Contracts Divorce 221 divorce certificates and 19 marriage revision certificate were issued6 Certificates during 2016. Sharia The Ministry of Justice certifies all kinds of powers of attorney. From the year of 2012 to 2014, a total of 399 limitation of succession certificates and7 Registrations 22.742 official notifications were issued, as well as 5,549 authentications and certifications up to 2013.
Services and facilities provided by The State of Kuwait to illegal residents pursuant to Council of Ministers Decree No. (409 / 2011) as follows:No. Service Type Facts and Figures The illegal residents receive education services from the Charity Fund for Education which bears the costs of all education stages. A total number of 15,105 students benefited from the Fund during the academic year 2014/2015 at a cost of KWD 4,711,093. • Enrollment of illegally residing children, of Kuwaiti mothers and who works in the Ministries of Interior and Defense, in public schools. • The Ministry of Education continues to cover all the education costs for the children of the illegally residing workers in the Ministries of Defense and Interior, who had their status adjusted and revealed their original nationality. • Persons who have their status adjusted will continue to receive free of charge education.1 Free • The education is pursued at advanced levels such as in Kuwait Education University and the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, according to the applicable regulations and conditions in each establishment: • A total of (510) illegally residing student (male and Female) are enrolled in Kuwait University during the academic years 2015/2016. • A total of (468) illegally residing student (male and Female) were enrolled in the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training during the academic years 2015/2016. • Education fees amounting to KWD 420078 were paid for 1,063 illegally residing student (male and female) in university during the academic years 2010/2014, through the “sponsorship of learners” project. • A total of 27329 of illegally residing student (male and female) are enrolled in public schools for the academic year 2015/2016.
Receiving Public with Providinghospitality all means of assistance forReceiving elderly andPublic with disabledhospitality At the Central Agency Ambulances are allocated for both (Al Ardya and Nayef Palace) premises ready for any emergency case.
First: Humanitarian AspectThe Central Agency makes every effort to offer to the illegal residentsservices and facilities in all humanitarian and social aspects, of thesame quality as those provided by the State of Kuwait to its citizens,especially in education and health care. These services and facilitiesare granted by a card distributed to the illegal residents registered withthe Central Agency, and they are:• Services and facilities provided by the State for the illegal residents under the Council of Ministers decree No. 409 / 2011.• Other services and facilities provided by different authorities within the State and not mentioned in the Council of Ministers decree No. 409 / 2011.
Here comes The efforts made by the Central Agencyto implement the roadmap are of two types: First: Humanitarian aspect Second: Technical and executive aspects
The Roadmap is now the legal framework that regulatesdealing with illegal residents and is based on severalimportant factors, that is:1. Justice2. Providing means of decent life that are consistent with human rights.3. Considerations of the State’s national interest.4. Loyalty, sacrifice and country’s need.5. Ties of kinship with Kuwaiti nationals.6. Historical perspective and period of Coexistence in to the country.7. The illegal residents, of whatever nationality, who have their situations adjusted, can be considered for granting the Kuwaiti citizenship subject to the Kuwaiti Nationality Law.8. To quickly decide on and handle the exceptionally harsh cases.
RoadmapThe Council of Ministers adopted a five-year roadmap pursuant to decree No.1612/2010, by which the Central Agency became the sole official body toimplement the roadmap; that would help solve the problem of illegal residentsby categorizing their illegal residents according to their legal status as follows:Category I: Illegal residents whose status needs to be adjusted.Category II: Illegal residents who might be considered for naturalization.Category III: Illegal residents for whom residence permits are issuedafter remedying their status.
This Chart Shows the Changes in theStatus of Illegal Residents:Numbers of Illegal Residents220.000 220000165.000 121.421 105.000 96.000 92.000110.00055.000 2016 0 1990 1995 2010 2015
Total Number of Illegal Residents Registered with the Central AgencyThe Central Agency team worked on sorting documents, investigating andgathering information concerning all those who claimed they are illegal residents,and by calculating the registered individuals, the estimated total number inthe year 2016 was around 92 thousand illegal residents. This figure is beingsubjected to change due to the following: The regulation of their situation, theimmigration outside of Kuwait and the increase number of births and deaths.
Official DenominationDefinition of Illegal ResidentsThe Illegal residents are foreigners’ living in the State of Kuwait, butin violation of the Kuwaiti Residence of foreigners Act No. 17/1959,for some of them have hidden or destroyed their original nationalitypapers and passports, as to claim the right to Kuwaiti nationalityin order to gain access to the various benefits and services thatKuwait offers to its nationals.Approved use of the Official Denomination• The use of “Illegal residents” denomination in all official correspondences and formalities was approved by virtue of Council of Ministers decree No. 915/2013, the decree establishing the Central Agency and the decrees issued by former committees.
The establishment of the Central Agency for Remedying IllegalResidents’ StatusThe Central Agency for Remedying Illegal Residents’ status wasestablished by Amiri decree No. 467 of November 9, 2010, wherearticle 8 thereof stipulates that “the Central Agency is the sole officialreference empowered to regularize the situation of illegal residents.”The Central Agency implements the roadmap as approved by theCouncil of Ministers and provides social, civil, cultural services andfacilities for illegal residents
To accomplishing this, the Central Agency waskeen to improve the available given data anddocuments concerning this issue, furthermore theCentral Agency is working on converting them into adeveloped digital system.The Central Agency affirms the importance ofcollaboration with different state institutions forthe sake of resolving the issue successfully andaccurately.In conclusion , we ask Allah for assistance andrectitude in taking integrity responsibility, and to betrust worthy for the Amir’s precious confidence in us,and that may Allah grant us all the success to serveour country, we ask Allah to keep our dear countrysafe and stable under the ensign of His HighnessThe Amir and His Highness the Crown Prince; mayAllah protect them both. The Central Agency Chief Executive Saleh Youssef Al Fadalah
THE CENTRAL AGENCY CHIEF EXECUTIVE SPEECHThe issue of illegal residents in Kuwait is considered to be one of the most significant issuesthat state of Kuwait is encountering through decades, as it is intersecting and overlappingwith various dimensions such as legist, security, politics and economic aspects, in additionto the consequent social and humanitarian repercussions of this issue on both individual andsocial levels. The “Central Agency for Remedying Illegal Residents Status” is concerned withremedying this issue, which is considered as one of the most important challenges that ourcountry is confronting.Since the Amiri decree was issued in October 2010 of the context of establishing the CentralAgency, a comprehensive and integrated plan was set covering all aspects of this issue, relyingon accurate analysis for its content and deep perception for all aspects related to this issuewith its several and variable ramifications. Since the inception of the central agency , resolvingall the humanitarian aspects of this issue has been the priority, all facilities and privileges for theillegal residents are provided in compliance with decision number 409/2011. These facilitiesare concerned with their rights of free education and medication, besides regulating officialdocuments issuing, as well as facilitating employment and issuing driving licenses.The Central Agency’s perceive is based on a group of rules; the most distinct rule is sortingthe illegal residents into categories, classified according to their legist status. Consequently,dealing with each individual is in compliance with the category he belongs to.The differentiation of the services provided is based on the existing information in each case’sfile. Therefore, some categories obtain additional privileges and exemptions from someprocedures and decisions taken, such as sons of Kuwaiti citizens, wives of Kuwaiti citizens,military personnel who participated in wars, captives’ families, and those who were co-existedin Kuwait long time ago.
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