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KUWAIT: Thousands of people in Kuwait are under travel bans and are not able to leave the country, even if they had necessary issues to solve abroad. According to a source at the Ministry of Interior the number reached 90,000 people till the end of last week. About 48,000 of them are Kuwaiti citizens and about 42,000 are expats from 12 different countries. The source also said that the most common reason for the travel ban was their inability to pay back their financial debts.
Those who were banned from travelling due to the unpaid financial debts, can pay the amount at the airport and then travel immediately. This option is currently not available at the land borders, although some of the working staff have proposed it. Mohammed K, an employee at a land border noted that they meet passengers with travel ban on daily bases. “It never happened that during my shift I didn’t meet a passenger with travel ban. In fact this issue usually causes traffic jams at the border as we don’t have the service of paying the debt and leaving, so people wait here for some time, till they find somebody of their relatives or friends to pay the amount for them at the airport. I have suggested providing this service here. But the officials didn’t respond to my suggestions that would relieve the border from the jam,” he told the Kuwait Times.
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