Visa policy of Kuwait

[2] In addition to GCC Countries which are already visa exempt, Holders of diplomatic, official & service passports of Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cyprus, China, Egypt, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Laos, Malaysia, Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Vietnam and just diplomatic passports of Armenia, Estonia, France, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain and Uzbekistan do not require a visa for 30 days.

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.

[12][13] After President of the United States Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, which banned the entry of nationals from Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria, and Yemen into the United States, several Western news sites published stories claiming a similar visa ban in Kuwait.

2 Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Russia and the partially recognised republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia each span the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia.