Thursday, October 23, 2008

Family Visa process - 4.5 hours

Note: This is for Expatriates trying to get their Families on Dependent visa to Kuwait
Lets note down the steps I went through for the Visa process for future reference:
1. In India got Marriage certificate Notarized and stamped from Home Department and Kuwait Embassy.
2. You need Marriage Affidavit from Indian Embassy (2 hours)
  1. Submit Marriage Affidavit form in Duplicate
  2. Passport copy of Wife
  3. Photocopy of Marriage Certificate
  4. Civil ID copy
  5. Applicant passport copy
  6. Show Original Marriage certificate(Attested by Home department in India)
  7. Show Original passport

3. Attest the Affidavit of Marriage got in previous step by Ministry of External Affairs, Kuwait (Took 30 mins)

4. Get the Application filled by the office outside Jawazat(Immigration Department). I went to Ahmadi Jawazat, as I stay in that area. Documents that they took with this application were:

  1. Original Affidavit of Marriage stamped by External Affairs
  2. Copy of wife's passport
  3. Copy of My Izne Amal (I had to show original Izne Amal)
  4. Civil ID copy

She did not take my passport copy nor my Aqd Ijar (House contract) copy which I was hearing is needed now.

Thats it, I think she took 10 minutes to make the visa asked me to check the spellings, passport number etc. than put 3 KD stamp if all fine and get it signed by the Manager

Easy isn't it! Alhamdulillaah!! at 8 a.m. I was in the embassy and at 12:30 I had the visa in my hand. Than I couriered the visa to India for Medical, PCC and Endorsement by Kuwait Embassy. You can use TNT, I gave it to him at 6 in the evening and it was delivered next day before 4 pm in Mumbai.

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