The number of Arab nationalities banned from entering Kuwait has risen to 5
The number of nationalities banned from entering Kuwait without security approvals has risen to 8, including 5 Arab nationalities, namely Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Pakistani, Iranian, Afghani, Yemeni and Sudanese.
The Kuwaiti newspaper, "Al-Qabas", quoted high-ranking security sources, that the internal disturbances in Sudan are behind this procedure, noting that the procedures related to the Sudanese community, whether related to the features of visit of all kinds, family, tourism, private and commercial, and features of joining a family of various types to the wife and children or For a husband over his wife a teacher, work visas for the Ministry of Affairs in coordination with the Ministry of Interior have been suspended.
The sources indicated that this procedure was followed with most of the countries that witnessed internal unrest, and that the goal behind it is due to the fact that a number of communities that occur in their countries unrest and demonstrations, are trying intensively to bring their people to Kuwait through visits, family residency, and residencies on companies, which may Among them are infiltrated persons wanted by the authorities of their country, or elements dangerous to security, which is not approved by the security authorities in order to maintain internal security.
Yesterday, Wednesday, Agence France-Presse quoted an unnamed security source as saying that the Kuwaiti authorities decided to "get tough" in granting visas to the Lebanese "without issuing an official circular to that effect."
The Kuwaiti security source, who was described by the agency as "informed of the decision", said, "There is a verbal decision to tighten the issuance of tourist and commercial visas to the Lebanese without an official circular to that effect," adding: "There is strictness, not prevention."
Al-Qabas newspaper quoted "informed security sources" as saying that "the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior has stopped issuing all kinds of visas to the Lebanese until further notice."
The decision came after a diplomatic crisis between some Gulf countries and Lebanon against the backdrop of statements by the Lebanese Minister of Information, George Kordahi, regarding the Yemen war.
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