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In 2011, Kuwait was the sixth-largest destination of Overseas Filipino Workers, with 65,000 hired or rehired in the nation in 2011, and accordingly Kuwait has been an important source of remittances back to the Philippines, with over $105 million USD being remitted in 2009.
The Kuwaiti embassy is located in Washington, D.C. [3]. Ambassador Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah [4]; On 4 May 2022, US First Lady Dr Jill Biden attended the Kuwait-America Foundation gala dinner as guest of honour which was held at the Kuwait Embassy in the nation’s capital in support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) impactful work worldwide.
Visa requirements for Kuwaiti citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Kuwait.As of january 2025, Kuwaiti citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 101 countries and territories, ranking the Kuwaiti passport 50th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.
After President of the United States Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, which banned the entry of nationals from Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria, and Yemen into the United States, several Western news sites published stories claiming a similar visa ban in Kuwait. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied that ...
The Embassy of Kuwait in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the State of Kuwait to the United States. It is located in the North Cleveland Park neighborhood. The Ambassador is Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah. [1]
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Kuwait were established on September 22, 1961, following Kuwait's full independence from the United Kingdom. [1] The U.S. opened its first consulate in Kuwait on June 27, 1951, and began operating publicly on October 15 of the same year with Enoch Duncan as the U.S. Consul. [1]
Kuwait's emir issued a long-awaited amnesty decree, pardoning and reducing the sentences of nearly three dozen Kuwaiti dissidents in a move aimed at defusing a major government standoff. The royal ...
Larry L. Memmott became Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in Kuwait on September 10, 2018, and took over leadership of Embassy Kuwait as Chargé d’affaires a.i. on October 5, 2019. [ 17 ] Alina Romanowski (February 2020–April 2022)