After the approaching elections for the National Assembly, concerns about ex-pats in Kuwait will once again be in the spotlight, according to the local newspaper Kuwait Times. Its report states that during the first parliamentary sessions of the new National Assembly, the issues that were previously brought up in parliament but on which no action was taken—such as imposing fees on resident remittances, reviewing the costs of medical care for expatriates, and directing them to the private sector by the end of the year, as well as implementing a plan on demographics in the form of a new residency law—will be discussed. 

According to the research, Kuwait's political parties feel that there are now three million foreign workers there, which is a significant increase above the country's labor demands, a burden on public services, a security risk, and unhelpful for achieving meaningful economic development. The administration will be under pressure to cut back on the number of immigrants.