Ban on visa: Pakistanis barred from entering Kuwait
Nationals of Iran, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan also barred from entering Kuwait.
Nationals of Iran, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan also barred from entering Kuwait. PHOTO: FILE
A decision by Kuwait’s interior ministry to allow Kuwaiti embassies and consulates to issue all types of visit visas will not include the six nationalities that have been barred from entering the country.
The ministry on Tuesday said the embassies and consulates were given full authority to issue the visas based on procedures stipulated by the law and regulations.
The minister, Shaikh Muhammad Al Khalid, had issued instructions ‘to work in coordination with the Ministry of Interior and the hotels sector which can also engage in the process of issuing all kinds of visas to Kuwait — commercial, tourist or family.”
However, security sources told local daily Al Rai that the new rules do not extend to nationals from Iran, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan who have been barred from entering Kuwait.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 3rd, 2014.