Spain Supports Schengen Visa Waiver for Kuwait

Posted date: 22 Jul 2021

Spain supports Kuwait’s quest to lift the Schengen visa requirements to its citizens, the Spanish Senate President Pilar Llop has announced.

In addition, Llop said he would back this effort within the European Parliament (EP) during his recent visit to Kuwait, where he met Kuwait’s Ambassador to Madrid Eyada Al-Saeedi, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

Kuwait has been negotiating with the European Union to waive Schengen visas on its citizens for more than four years now.

Besides negotiations regarding an agreement for the Schengen visa waiver, Senate President Llop and Kuwait’s Ambassador to Madrid Al-Saeedi have urged for exchanging expertise to halt the spread of the Coronavirus outbreak.

Throughout the meeting, they reasserted the importance of parliamentary diplomacy to promote cooperation as well as to develop relations in order to achieve international peace and stability.

Based on Schengen Visa statistics, published in 2018, the Schengen consulates located in Kuwait received 174,765 visa applications during that year. The report showed that 164,742 of these applications received a positive answer, while the remaining 4.9 per cent were rejected from getting a Schengen Visa.
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