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The State of Kuwait formally has an official Nationality Law which grants non-nationals a legal pathway to obtain citizenship. [1] However, access to citizenship in Kuwait is autocratically controlled by the Al Sabah ruling family, it is not subject to any external regulatory supervision.
After the first Gulf War in 1990–1991, Kuwait was especially affected. The immense deprivation of the country required Kuwait to rebuild the country's economy and infrastructure, mainly through the reconstruction of the petroleum industry. Although the pre-war level of the GDP per capita was achieved already in 1992, it constituted a costly ...
Kuwait: First issued: 1920 (Sheikhdom of Kuwait) 1962 (State of Kuwait) 1998(Machine Readable ) 2017 [1] (current version with biometric chip ) Purpose: Identification: Eligibility: Kuwaiti citizenship: Expiration: 5 years 10 years (30 years and older) 6 months (Article 17 or Stateless passport) Cost: 5 years Validity 3KD 10 years Validity 6KD
The Bedoon or Bidoon (Arabic: بدون جنسية, romanized: Bidūn jinsiya, lit. 'without nationality'), fully Bidoon jinsiya, are stateless people in several Middle Eastern countries, [1] but particularly in Kuwait, where there is a large population of stateless people who lack access to many of the country's basic services.
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.
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.
Kuwait, [a] officially the State of Kuwait, [b] is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south. [15]
Roughly half of Kuwait's judges are non-citizens—mainly Egyptians. The non-citizen judges are on one-year to three-year contracts. The Constitution of Kuwait makes Islam the state religion. The 1961 Press and Publications Law prohibits the publication of any material that incites persons to commit crimes, creates hatred, or spreads dissension.