KUWAIT: Kuwaiti nationals married to subjects of blacklisted countries cannot process dependent residency visas for their spouses unless prior approval is given, Al-Anbaa reported yesterday. The new instructions were included in circulation number 2/2018 issued by the Interior Ministry's Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship and Passport Affairs Major General Sheikh Faisal Al-Nawaf Al-Sabah. The instructions also banned the issuance of dependent visas to the wives of citizens working in any military facility, without prior approval and regardless of the wife's nationality.

Natural reserve protection

Interior Ministry departments started coordination to protect Sabah Al-Ahmad Natural Reserve from infiltrators who jump over the wire fence and disturb the natural life inside. Al-Rai daily yesterday quoted a source who said that the 'repeated infiltration and deliberate damages' prompted the interior ministry to station patrols around the reserve on a 24-hour a day basis. Meanwhile, the source said that environment police noticed two citizens entering the reserve, so they were arrested and sent to the Environment Public Authority (EPA) which transferred them to the public prosecution for further legal action.

Infiltrators busted

Salmy policemen foiled a Pakistani truck driver's attempt to smuggle six people into Kuwait after receiving 30,000 Saudi Riyals from them. The infiltrators (three Pakistanis, two Bangladeshis and one Egyptian) were escaping from Saudi Arabia where they are wanted for Saudi authorities, Al-Rai reported yesterday.

Suffocation

A five-member Syrian family was rushed to hospital after they breathed insecticides in their Andalus apartment. A citizen called police telling them his Syrian neighbor and his family suffered suffocation, so paramedics rushed to the house and sent the father and mother to Sabah hospital, while neighbors had rushed their three children to Farwaniya hospital where they were admitted into the ICU. The father said he sprayed the house with insecticides without following safety procedure, reported Al-Rai.