Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior announced the launch of a brand-new online service in an initiative to boost social distancing and curb the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), state news agency KUNA reported.
Through this portal, residents can now transfer their visas from one passport to another, modify their names in English, and renew family and sponsor residencies on the ministry’s website, www.moi.gov.kw.
Residency renewals online will only be available to those whose visas expired in March, the statement added.
The Kuwaiti government imposed partial curfew on March 22 from 5pm to 4am after instructions to stay at home went unheard.
"The Civil Defense Committee will issue IDs for people working in vital sectors to allow them to move around during the curfew," Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh said, adding that those who break the rules would be jailed for up to three years and fined $32,267.