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Kuwait bans dozens of Lebanese citizens from renewing their residencies: Al-Qabas

Kuwait bans dozens of Lebanese citizens from renewing their residencies: Al-Qabas

The persons named in the Kuwaiti NSB list and their families will have to leave Kuwait as soon as their residency permits expire, a Kuwaiti security source is cited as saying. (Credit: Yasser al-Zayyat and Joseph Eid/AFP)

BEIRUT — The Kuwaiti National Security Bureau has compiled a list of 100 foreign residents in the country who are banned from renewing their residency permits — the majority of them Lebanese, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas reported Tuesday, citing a Kuwaiti state security source.

Here’s what we know:

    • The source reportedly told Al-Qabas that “no person representing any form of threat to [Kuwaiti] national security will be allowed to remain in its [Kuwait’s] territory.”

    • The persons named in the Kuwaiti NSB list and their families will have to leave Kuwait as soon as their residency permits expire, the source is cited as saying. According to Al-Qabas, the list additionally includes “Iranian, Yemeni, Syrian, Iraqi, Pakistani, Afghan, Bengal and Egyptian” nationals.

    • The cited threats to Kuwaiti national security posed by the banned individuals include “first or second degree ties to Hezbollah” and involvement in “dangerous activities, such as money laundering.” On Oct. 9, Kuwait arrested eight of its citizens on allegations of financially supporting Hezbollah.

    • The Kuwaiti state security source also told Al-Qabas that the agency recently deported a number of persons who had been banned from renewing their residencies.

    • There are currently around 50,000 Lebanese expatriates in Kuwait. Diplomatic ties between Lebanon and Kuwait were ruptured following the controversy over Information Minister George Kurdahi’s statements on the Saudi intervention in the war in Yemen, which were aired last month. Al-Qabas previously reported that visa obtention would become harder for Lebanese citizens.

BEIRUT — The Kuwaiti National Security Bureau has compiled a list of 100 foreign residents in the country who are banned from renewing their residency permits — the majority of them Lebanese, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas reported Tuesday, citing a Kuwaiti state security source. Here’s what we know:    • The source reportedly told Al-Qabas that “no person representing any form of...