Kuwait resumes issuance of visas for Pakistanis
Kuwait resumes the issuance of visas for Pakistanis!
Kuwait will “immediately” resume granting family and business visas to Pakistani nationals, Minister for Interior Shaikh Rasheed informed on Sunday after a meeting with Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah.
“There has been a big development on the front of Kuwaiti visas that had been stopped for Pakistanis since 2011. Family and business visas between Pakistan and Kuwait will now be restored,” he announced, in a statement on Twitter.
کویت: 30مئی 2021
— Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (@ShkhRasheed) May 30, 2021
کویت کے وزیراعظم شیخ صباح خالدالحامدالصباح سے ملاقات
کویت کے وزیر داخلہ اور پاکستانی سفیر بھی ملاقات میں موجود
10 سال بعد پاکستانی شہریوں کے لئے کویت ویزا بحال
پاک – کویت دوطرفہ تعلقات سمیت باہمی دلچسپی کےامور پر گفتگو pic.twitter.com/ByzxOt1cKn
ملاقات میں وزیر داخلہ نے کویتی وزیر اعظم کو وزیر اعظم عمران کا خصوصی مراسلہ بھی پیش کیا۔
— Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (@ShkhRasheed) May 30, 2021
2011 سے بند پاکستانی شہریوں کے لئے کویتی ویزہ کی بحالی پر بڑی پیش رفت-
پاکستان اور کویت کے درمیان فیملی اور بزنس ویزا فوری بحال کرنے کا بھی فیصلہ- pic.twitter.com/XfnMhuPxAH
Pakistani labourers will also be issued work visas under an agreement between the two countries.
Kuwait had stopped issuing visas to Pakistan and four other countries in 2011 “over what it said was difficult security conditions in the five countries”, Arab News had reported in March.
According to Shaikh Rasheed, the Kuwaiti prime minister noted that Pakistan and Kuwaiti ties and long-standing, dating back seven decades.
“Pakistani families and the business community faced great difficulties with the Kuwaiti visa ban,” he tweeted, hailing the role of Pakistani labour in the development of Kuwait.
“Restoration of worker visas will create new employment opportunities for Pakistanis and business visas will boost trade between the two countries,” he added.
