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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 ...
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.
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...
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 ...
Over the subsequent years, from 2006 to 2010, the company expanded its services to include visa processing for European embassies, such as those of Austria, Belgium, Greece, and Tunisia. By 2008, BLS International had extended its operations internationally, providing services for the Indian Embassy in countries including Spain , Kuwait , Sudan ...
The Kuwait Army split from the Directorate of Public Security Force in 1953; subsequently, the latter merged with Directorate of Police to form Directorate of Public Security and Police in 1959; following the demolition of the defensive wall of Kuwait in 1957 which later formed the Kuwait Ministry of Interior including the Kuwait Police.
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 ...
In June 2019, Kuwaiti citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 98 countries and territories, ranking the Kuwaiti passport 44th in the world according to the Visa Restrictions Index. Countries and territories with visa-free or visa on arrival entry for holders of regular Kuwaiti passports