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Jim Bigelow · Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 175 Location: KSA

Can you tell me about the situation when you want to leave an employer in Kuwait. Is it the same as KSA in that you are given a final exit and not able to return for 2 years?

I've been offered a job out there but I'm nervous if it doesn't work out then will I be able to just leave and go to another sponsor or will I be made to walk the plank?

Thanks

Bindair Dundat · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 1123

You can change employers, providing that the first one releases you from your contract. This assumes that you are a "professional," which in practice means American or British. If your passport says Lebanon, the Philippines, or India, for example, you do not fit the Kuwaiti definition of professional.

This is the sort of rule that is always changing, though. Kuwait is the kind of place where you can make out really well only if you can roll with the punches.