Driving license
KUWAIT: A few months had passed since the new conditions for issuing driving licenses for expatriates were announced without any single exception, official sources stressed to Al-Watan pointing out that only 26 categories of expatriates were entitled to the license. Further, the sources explained that expatriates needed to be university graduates, getting KD 400+ salary and should be in Kuwait for at least two years before applying for the driver's license, all in attempt to solve many traffic problems and reducing the numbers of cars on roads. (sic)
The English in the article is a little difficult to understand, but the gist of this is that to reduce the number of cars on the road, an official brain-fart is to make it more difficult to have foreigners driving on the roads… Given that a large number of Kuwaiti families employ an Asian ex-pat driver, no doubt a lot of wasta will be called upon to get around this latest inconvenience.
Good news - my wife is finally a legal driver in Kuwait after several painful months of paper chasing from one bureaucratic office to another. Can't wait for her to write up her experience.
2 comments:
kinda stupid...instead of making use of new techniques to tackle the traffic, we are asking people to go and have their graduation done first!
ha ha ! but the MOI are smart !
asian ex-pat drivers for familes do not follow the 400 kd / university clause !
doesn't mean its a sad law
and the ways they come up to solve traffic problem is the worst i ever read , i don't think they do any kind of deep thinking in MOI
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