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Country of citizenship	Residency law violators as of	Regularized cases		Remaining irregulars
	February 28th, 2011	Departure	Regularization of status
Afghanistan	1.477	246	216	1.015
Albania	14	4	1	9
Algeria	60	2	3	55
Armenia	8	0	2	6
Australia	244	2	2	240
Austria	41	0	2	39
Bangladesh	26.019	4.891	1.271	19.857
Belgium	1	1	0	0
Benin	5	0	1	4
Bosnia-Herzegovina	20	1	1	18
Brasil	20	4	1	15
Britain	1.027	14	17	996
Canada	227	15	28	184
Chad	32	3	4	25
China	421	101	40	280
Croatia	9	2	0	7
Cyprus	3	2	0	1
Czech Republic	58	2	0	56
Denmark	83	0	1	82
Djibouti	1	0	1	0
Dominican Republic	49	0	4	45
Egypt	9.338	2.532	2.740	4.066
Eritrea	100	24	13	63
Ethiopia	2.055	732	582	741
France	184	7	2	175
Gambia	6	0	1	5
Georgia	7	3	0	4
Germany	149	2	4	143
Ghana	24	6	7	11
Holland	87	2	2	83
Hungary	16	4	3	9
India	24.433	9.585	2.664	12.184
Indonesia	9.199	2.116	399	6.684
Iran	1.961	164	304	1.493
Iraq	945	47	136	762
Ireland	42	0	2	40
Italy	163	1	2	160
Japan	74	3	2	69
Jordan	1.342	89	274	979
Kazakhstan	11	1	0	10
Kenya	10	0	1	9
Lebanon	961	69	228	664
Liberia	35	0	5	30
Libya	24	3	0	21
Macedonia	5	1	0	4
Madagascar	3	1	1	1
Malaysia	68	11	1	56
Mali	1	1	0	0
Mexico	10	0	1	9
Morocco	142	15	33	94
Myanmar	1	0	1	0
Nepal	3.788	2.035	487	1.266
New Zealand	32	2	1	29
Niger	6	1	0	5
Nigeria	31	3	2	26
Non-Kuwaiti	28	1	1	26
North Korea	45	6	11	28
Other African Nationalities	5	1	2	2
Other American Nationalities	2	1	1	0
Pakistan	5.225	1.366	1.051	2.808
Palestine	10	1	6	3
Palestinian from Egypt	249	2	30	217
Palestinian from Lebanon	31	1	2	28
Palestinian from Syria	21	0	6	15
Philippines	7.498	2.055	1.006	4.437
Poland	37	1	4	32
Portugal	15	1	0	14
Romania	29	1	2	26
Russia and USSR	86	0	2	84
Saudi	8	0	1	7
Serbia	9	1	1	7
Seychelles Islands	1	1	0	0
Sierra Leone	5	1	0	4
Slovakia	13	0	1	12
Somalia	216	17	32	167
South Africa	98	4	1	93
South Korea	52	3	6	43
Spain	52	1	0	51
Sri Lanka	16.267	4.969	916	10.382
Sudan	396	148	32	216
Sweden	43	2	0	41
Switzerland	17	0	1	16
Syria	3.442	477	873	2.092
Thailand	76	13	3	60
Tunisia	66	11	14	41
Turkey	544	20	18	506
U.S.A	4.117	131	72	3.914
Ukraine	26	1	4	21
Venezuela	11	1	1	9
Yemen	330	48	60	222
GRAND TOTAL	124.142	32.036	13.653	78.453

Source: Ministry of Interior

 

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. Data collection methodology

 

Ministerial decision 1054/2011 granted a four-months grace period (March 1st to June 30st, 2011) to illegal expatriates willing to regularize their status with Ministry of Interior (residency) and Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MOSAL) (labour permits), or leave the country without penalty.

The estimate of the residency law violators on the eve of the amnesty period is obtained by adding subsequent regularizations (departures, regularizations of status),to estimates of remaining irregular migrants.

The illegal residents’ figure is obtained by substracting the regularized cases (departed, having adjusted their status) from the Ministry’s records on expatriates having failed to renew their residency documents.

The bidoun, a stateless population, are not included in the residency documents holders.

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

Ministry of Interior, General Department of Immigration

 

3. Data availability

 

Data have been obtained from the Ministry of Interior. They are not published or made available to the public.

 

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