After Arrival in Kuwait

Note: This is for Expatriates trying to get their Families on Dependent visa to Kuwait
1. Go to a typist with your Civil ID, Wife's passport and Visa
2. He will make the necessary Forms for Medical and Jawazat.
3. Go for Medical to the hospital based on your Civil ID address.
4. Collect Medical report next week.
5. Get the Civil ID No. by calling 1889988 based on the Visa No.
6. Go to the Insurance counter with the Medical Report, Civil ID copy and Visa copy, Passport
7. He will give you an Health card and a Insurance paper immediately
8. Go to Jawazat first floor(Ahmadi) with the Application, Medical Report (step 4) and Insurance paper (step 7) . Get signature from the Raees.
9. Go to the Ground floor cashier and pay 100KD if Iqamah is for 1 year, get the receipts
10. Go to the ladies on the counter, she will take the papers and passport and will stamp the Iqamah in the passport in couple of minutes.

So it is hardly an 30 minute job Alhamdulillaah in Ahmadi Jawazat. I love Kuwait. If you have the right papers and know the right things, things are Easy!

Thats it! Now you just need to fill up the Civil ID form and you shall be through.

After Visa What Next

Note: This is for Expatriates trying to get their Families on Dependent visa to Kuwait
I earlier blogged about procuring a Residence Visa for your wife, The next step is in your Home Country. The Visa needs to be endorsed by the Kuwait Embassy Mumbai or Delhi. If you do it in Mumbai they need the following:
1. You need to buy an Airline ticket (I took Kuwait Airways)
2. You need to get your Medical done from the Authorized centers
3. You need to submit a Police Clearance Certificate
You can hire an agent like Akbar Travels, to manage all this for you. You will just have to go once for getting the Medical done, thats it.

After all this the embassy stamps behind your original Visa paper as well as pastes a temporary Entry permit in your passport. And now you are ready to Fly.

Never Give Up!

Make this part of your approach to any problem, and you can convert the problem into a stepping stone to success Inshaa Allaah! I was speaking to a friend in India, this short trip and I have seen him surrounded by troubles all the time, Health, Relationships and Business but I still always find him brave and coping up with the problems Alhamdulillah. I was speaking to him and he mentioned that I have learnt "Never to Give Up" He said, whatever comes my way, I dont give up! That was an impressive reply, I was amazed and now knew the source of his energy. And noted this point in my list of things I have learnt. To add to it, a colleague emailed the below story which teaches the same lesson. Its a nice way to represent the same principle, Never Give Up:

One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal cried Piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; so it just wasn't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
Realizing what was happening, the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly. Then, a few shovelfuls later, he quieted down completely.

The farmer peered down into the well, and was astounded by what he saw. With every shovelful of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off, to the shock and astonishment of all the neighbors.
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to not let it bury you but to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up!

Shake it off and take a step up!