Kuwait bans visas issuance to 5 Muslim countries

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Kuwait has followed President Trump footsteps on the placing bans on citizens of some Islamic countries.

The government’s decision was actually based on a number of attacks in recent times and this left many people dead. The bombing of a Shia mosque in 2015 will always be pertinent when assessing the effects of terrorism in that region.

The Gulf state pledges to lift the bans as soon as the security situation improves. The following

nationals of the countries that will no longer be issued visas for now:

1. Syria

2. Iraq

3. Iran

4. Pakistan

5. Afghanistan

Even those already with Passport from this countries will no longer be allowed to enter Kuwait with many of them being told not to apply there for now. The citizens of the banned countries will not be able to perform activities like obtain Kuwaiti visas for visits, trade or tourism

For a sometimes now, Syria and Iraq have been busy in internal conflicts while Pakistan and Afghanistan have been experiencing serious unrest from insurgents.

Terrorist groups like the al-Qaeda and other Islamic militant organisations in Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq made Kuwait to place a ban on the issuance of visas to citizens of these countries.

The report of a 64-country intern-nations survey stated that Kuwait is the worst place in the world for expatriates in 2015. Recently, the country had also passed a number of laws which never favoured foreigners and this made it one of the most hostile Gulf States with regards to expatriates.

The ban on Syrians by Kuwait has already been in existence since 2011 which means US is not the first country to place ban on Syrians.