Citizens holding valid, old passports can return home -- MoI

KUWAIT, June 20 (KUNA) -- The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Wednesday that citizens holding old version and valid passports could come back to the homeland.
There is a ministerial decision to stop using the old passports as of July 1, the Ministry's Public Relations and Security Media Department added in a press statement.
Based upon Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah's decision suspending the old passports as of first of July, in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry, those who hold invalid and old travel documents have to head to the Kuwaiti Embassies abroad to issue documents so as to return home, the statement noted.
The move shows the Ministry's keenness on offering facilitations to the Kuwaiti nationals living abroad, it pointed out.
However pointing out that no one can travel using the old passport as of the above-mentioned date of July 1, the statement added. (end) ays.fsh.hm