The transfer of the affiliation of the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) to the Ministry of Interior is intended to corner visa traders and owners of dummy companies, as well as address marginal labor, in order to clean Kuwait's human trafficking file. This follows the arrest made by the Egyptian authorities, in coordination with their Kuwaiti counterpart, of a gang that deals with visa fraud.

"A new approach to recruiting workers from different countries is being prepared, and the regulations are being altered to organize the recruitment process according to proportion in a way that helps modify the demographic structure.", said a high-level security source. The government is determined to deal with this file radically, according to several methods, the first of which is to study the labor market and the needs of the development process, and to lay the foundations and criteria for recruiting workers for actual institutions and companies.

Methodology
Legislatively, the second method will be to amend the private sector labor law and the penal code partially to set strict penalties against visa traders due to the insufficiency of current penalties. The government will not hesitate to do so”. The source said the third method involves intensifying inspection campaigns and giving the Immigration Investigations and other inspection teams the green light to monitor companies and institutions that recruit labor from abroad, and ensuring their presence in the labor sites of these companies. It is prohibited to issue new visas to companies that fail to report the departure of those whose contracts have expired.

Sources confirmed that the new recruitment requirements include health insurance from the private sector, not the government, a drug-free certificate, and contracts that guarantee the rights of both employers and employees. He said, “The Embassy of Kuwait in Egypt suspended a number of visas that were issued recently because of a security report that some of them were forged by a gang inside Egypt seized by the Egyptian authorities. In light of the cooperation and coordination between the two countries, the security authorities in Egypt informed their Kuwaiti counterpart about the elements associated with the gang, the names of companies and power of attorney signatures. Several delegates renting commercial or fictitious licenses in Kuwait are in contact and cooperating with the gang.