Kuwait
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Visa, 90 days
Before you travel: you need a visa from an embassy or consulate. The authorisation itself is valid 30 days, that is not how long you may stay.
The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions1 to check
- passport must be valid for no less than 6 months
Your stay
Add your arrival date to work out the stay that fits this rule.
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Official wording
مادة (3)يشترط لدخول الأجنبي لدولة الكويت أن تكون لديه سمة دخول صادرة من الإدارة العامة لشئون الإقامة، أو من أي منفذ من منافذ الكويت أو من إحدى السلطات الكويتية المختصة بذلك في الخارج، أو أن تكون لديه إقامة عادية سارية المفعول.ويعفى من الحصول على سمة الدخول رعايا الدول التي يصدر بها مرسوم بناء على عرض وزير الداخلية وبشرط المعاملة بالمثل.
Aevamo’s reading
Amiri Decree-Law 114/2024 on the Foreigners' Residence Law is the statute that creates the entry regime: its first chapter requires foreigners to hold a valid passport or travel document to enter and leave Kuwait (GCC citizens excepted), its second chapter empowers the Minister of Interior to set entry-visa types and procedures, and it makes an entry visa the default for foreign nationals unless exempted by decree; the executive regulation and ministerial decisions implement these delegations.
Article 3 of the executive regulation (Ministerial Decision 2249/2025) requires every foreigner entering Kuwait to hold an entry visa issued by the Residency Affairs department, a Kuwaiti port, or a competent Kuwaiti authority abroad, unless exempted by decree; none of these issuers appears on the visa-on-arrival list or in the GCC exemption, so the general entry-visa requirement applies and must be arranged before travel.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
law114-2024: Kuwait Alyoum issue 1715, 1/12/2024, in force 5/1/2025; exec-reg-alaan: Decision 2249/2025 published in Kuwait Alyoum issue 1766 on 23/11/2025, in force 23/12/2025 (text as reproduced by Al-Aan); amiri-diwan-114: 28/11/2024; mofa-evisa: current, fetched live 2026-08-29; kuwait-visa-portal: current MOI platform, fetched via browser 2026-08-29; res-1386-2025: issued 6/8/2025.
Other entry routes 1 alternatives
These routes depend on a different document or additional conditions.
Visa on arrival, 90 days
passport must be valid for no less than 6 months
holds a valid residence permit of no less than six months issued by one of the GCC States
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.