The Director General of the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), Musaed Al-Asousi, affirmed that the authority has completed issuing a total of 105,000 visas to all citizens since 20 August, and pointed out that citizens’ visas are now issued within 24 hours as long as there are no barriers to issuing the visa or a need for review such as an address change, Al Jarida reports.
Al-Asousi stated that the Commission also issued the last batch of domestic worker visas (Article 20) during the weekend which rose to 26,000 visas, bringing the total of visas issued since the resuming of work on 5 July to approximately 115,000 visas for domestic workers.
As for expatriate visas, Al-Asousi mentioned that 190,000 civil id cards have been issued since work resumed on 5 July, so the total visas issued is 410,000 civil id cards, and the focus next will be on issuing civil id cards for expats in the next phase.
Al-Asousi noted that the Kuwait Mobile ID aims to replace the civil id cards in all transactions in the government and private sector, based on the decision of the Council of Ministers, in addition to other features such as authentication and electronic signature.
Lauding the efforts of all employees of PACI, Al-Asousi thanked them for their great efforts while working for 12 hours a day, from 6 am to 6 pm, to achieve what has been accomplished within 40 working days.
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