Record of residency law violators having benefitted from the amnesty (ministerial decision 2011/1054) and estimation of the residents remaining in irregular situation by country of citizenship (01/07/2011)(Kuwait)
| 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.