Expats Stranded Abroad May Be Able To Return Soon

Expats who are stranded outside Kuwait might be allowed to return to the country in the following weeks, reported Al Rai Daily. The process is in the planning stages starting with registering their information on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website before examining the situation in preparation for facilitating the expats return in coordination with the Kuwaiti embassies abroad.

The daily mentioned that the concerned authorities will grant permission for expats to enter the country but only under humanitarian conditions such as children who have been separated from their families due to the crisis or parents who are stuck abroad.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs allowed the entry of some under humanitarian considerations, who were first-degree relatives of expatriates of different nationalities, the majority from the Gulf including Egyptian and Jordanian nationals, as the reasons for being abroad was vacation and study abroad.

They daily added that the number of those who entered the country in the evacuation flights for Kuwaitis from the time of closing of the Kuwaiti airspace on February 29 was  approximately 4,350. They are separated across several categories, such as wives of Kuwaiti citizens, men married to Kuwaiti women, children of Kuwaiti mothers, first degree relatives of the residents in the country, and domestic workers who accompanied their sponsors.

The source affirmed that Ministry of Interior and Directorate General for Civil Aviation are not the authorities involved in the decision to permit the entry of expats into the country, but rather they are parties executing the instructions of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Health in this regard.

 

SOURCE : TIMESKUWAIT

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