KUWAIT: The Traffic Department in the six governorates has received directives to review all driving licenses of expatriates after the department completed the cancellation of driving licenses, sources said. The department has revoked the licenses of hundreds of expats who forfeited the conditions for obtaining them and those who did surrender the licenses they possessed to the administration.

The sources said they are still driving their vehicles under the cancelled licenses which is in violation of the traffic laws. The department clarified that some licenses issued to academics were conditional and was issued to them after two years of coming to the country after checking their files. Such exceptions will be reviewed now, the department clarified.

The instructions received by the six traffic departments will make sure the withdrawal of driving licenses which are being used in contravention of the rules and conditions taking into account the segments that were excluded from the salary and university qualification conditions. The instructions stipulated that the audit will be more, especially for driving licenses signed by the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Traffic Affairs.

In the event of auditing, new documents will also be required, such as a work permit, in which the salary, qualification and job capacity must be mentioned. The instructions that were issued have taken effect and the traffic department has refused to renew a number of these licenses. The new decision has been taken after reports and information confirmed that there are thousands of licenses have been issued with an undue exception.

In the same context, the traffic department continues to audit driving licenses, and the next step is to review the files of the perpetrators of traffic violations so that the violator is audited and if it turns out that the driving license was issued to them, the exception will also be withdrawn.