DUBAI – Kuwait government is working on plans to introduce residency caps on expatriates to slash their number in the country to 45 percent of the total population, local daily Gulf News reported on Sunday.

“The government will suggest imposing a cap of six years on unskilled labourers, eight years on semi-skilled employees, ten years on semi-skilled employees who are with their families and 12 years on skilled employees. Foreigners with rare expertise will be given an open stay,” Annahar daily quoted a source as saying, the report said.

McLEAN, Virginia, June 3, (AP): The words hit Aziz Nouhaili like a punch to the gut: After the US Embassy in Kuwait confiscated his passport, an official told him he should no longer consider himself as a US citizen.

Nouhaili, a naturalized US citizen from Morocco, has been trying for nearly four months to get home from Kuwait, where he worked for several years as a military contractor. So far, US officials have continued to keep him in Kuwait while they consider revoking his citizenship over a decades-old passport problem.“Being a US citizen is a beautiful thing. It’s something I’m not planning to give up that easily,” Nouhaili, 47, said in a phone interview Thursday.

KUWAIT: Protesters gathered in front of the National Assembly for another Friday of Anger, their discontent aimed at the paralyzed nature of the Kuwaiti political scene. Most of their displeasure is aimed at His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah.

Earlier, the Ministry of Interior stated that it was completely ready to deal with any gatherings at Determination Square. Police officers were seen taken their positions, along with police rails, Friday afternoon and early evening in order to stop any massive gatherings at the square. However, soon enough a number of citizens did manage to get together and some gave long speeches. As the group grew, they shifted from the square and situated themselves in front of the National Assembly. The crowd composed of more than two thousand individuals, with organizers insisting that the number of those gathered were much bigger, was encircled by the police.