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Visa requirements for Kuwaiti citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Kuwait.As of March 2024, Kuwaiti citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 104 countries and territories, ranking the Kuwaiti passport 54th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.
In April 2019, Kuwait added Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Bhutan, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the list of restricted countries. According to Migrant Rights, the visa restrictions are put in place mainly due to the fact that these countries lack embassies and labour corporations in Kuwait. [11] A visa restriction on nationals of Ethiopia was lifted in ...
The Kuwaiti nationality law is the legal pathway for non-nationals to become citizens of the State of Kuwait.The Kuwaiti nationality law is based on a wide range of decrees; first passed in 1920 and then in 1959.
Kuwait's foreign worker sponsorship system mandates that expatriates must be sponsored by a local employer to get a work permit. In August 2008, MP Abdullah Al-Roumi declared that he was going to draft a law to scrap Kuwait’s "kafeel" foreign worker sponsorship system: "The government should be the only kafeel...
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 Kuwait–Philippine diplomatic crisis has caused further problems of mistreatment of Filipino migrants as some of them tried to enter Kuwait through illegal routes. [28] Home to more than 250,000 migrant workers from the Philippines, approximately 60% of whom work in domestic labor, and Kuwait is a top source of remittance for the ...
Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States (1993–2001) 4 Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah [3] Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs 2011–2019 Kuwait's permanent member mission to the United Nations (1983–1989) Kuwait's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1995–1998) [4] Kuwait's 9th Prime Minister (2019–2022) 5 Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad ...
This is the list of diplomatic missions of Kuwait. Kuwait maintains more than 100 diplomatic missions in countries around the world. Kuwait maintains more than 100 diplomatic missions in countries around the world.