As stated earlier, employees need sponsorship to get a Kuwait work visa. Here, employers sponsor this type of visa.
Here is a step-by-step guide on the application process for the Kuwait work visa:
Step 1 – Employees must accept the employment offer to get a residence visa on a work visa.
Step 2 – Next, a Kuwait-based employer must sponsor this work permit and apply for it from the Ministry of Social Affairs & Labour.
Step 3 – Here, employers must gather a passport of the employee and a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the General Administration of Criminal Investigation at the Ministry of Interior.
Step 4 – Now, it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kuwait to dispatch a copy of the work permit to the Kuwaiti Embassy in the employees’ home country (here in India) for endorsement.
Step 5 - The sponsor or employer also needs to dispatch a copy of the work permit to the employee. Next, that employee must take this document to the embassy.
Step 6 – At this stage, employees must make an application for an entry visa for Kuwait. Employees belonging to private sector organisations need a no-objection certificate (NOC) and a copy of the employer’s or sponsor’s authorised signatory that has been registered for business grounds.
Step 7 – Under certain circumstances where there is no Kuwait Embassy in the employee’s home country or residing country, the submission of work permit and no objection certificate to the Ministry of the Interior for getting an entry visa delegates to the sponsor.
If employees enter Kuwait on a visit visa and accept employment, then they must leave the country and again return on the new entry visa.
Note: The majority of nationalities must go back to their own country to complete medical examinations and endorsement from the home country’s Kuwait Embassy.
