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Expatriates earning less than Dh7,680 a month will be banned from driving in Kuwait under a new law introducing curbs on the issuance of licences to the dominant foreign community in the Gulf Opec oil producer.
A decision by Kuwait’s interior minister Sheikh Mohammed Al Khaled also stipulated any expatriate seeking to obtain a driving licence must be holder of a university degree.
The decision, published in Kuwait’s press on Wednesday, raised the minimum salary needed by expatriates to obtain a driving licence from KD400 (Dh5,120) to KD600 (Dh7,680) and stipulated applicants must have stayed in Kuwait for at least two years.
Under the decision, which exempted journalists and other professions from such terms, expatriates working in certain fields could lose their driving licence if they change their jobs or cancel their visa and leave Kuwait.
The decision included a big list of professions excluded from the new rules, including journalists, general managers and their aides, accountants and auditors, people having Kuwaiti spouses and their children, professional football players, oil sector workers, doctors, nurses and other medical staff, pilots and their assistants, judges and other court employees, school and university teachers, social guides and researchers.
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