{"id":306016,"date":"2022-01-25T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/kuwait-volta-a-ter-visto-para-trabalhador-acima-de-60-anos\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T13:19:04","slug":"kuwait-resumes-issue-of-visas-for-workers-over-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/kuwait-resumes-issue-of-visas-for-workers-over-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait resumes issue of visas for workers over 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The <strong>Kuwaiti<\/strong> government has decided to revoke the decision taken in 2020 to restrict the renewal of work permits for foreigners over 60 years of age and those who have only a high school certificate or a lower education degree.<\/p>\n<p>According to the country\u2019s official news agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuna.net.kw\/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=3023259&amp;Language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kuna<\/a>, the Minister of Justice of Kuwait, Jamal Al-Jalawi, announced this Monday (24) the government will resume issuing <strong>visas<\/strong> for these cases. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/politics-economics\/kuwait-will-again-issue-work-visas-to-expats-over-60-years-old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arabian Business<\/a> website, the measure ends a months-long discussion in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of visas will have a fee of KWD 250 (about USD 825 at the current rate). Workers must have health insurance from one of the companies listed by the government of the Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is valid for one year and includes husbands or children of Kuwaiti nationals, wives of men born in the country, and Palestinians with resident documentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-306006\">\u00a9Yasser Al-Zayyat\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulf country reversed the 2020 decision not to renew work permits for expats over 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":306006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,3066],"tags":[27407,27408,27409,3861,13880,17555,10161,9600,11627,27412,27410,27411,27413,11588],"class_list":{"0":"post-306016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-society","9":"tag-60-en","10":"tag-acima-de-60-en","11":"tag-expatriados-en","12":"tag-expats","13":"tag-golfo-en-2","14":"tag-golfo-en-3","15":"tag-gulf-en","16":"tag-kuwait-en-2","17":"tag-kuwait-ar","18":"tag-over-60","19":"tag-trabalhadores-en","20":"tag-visto-de-trabalho-en","21":"tag-work-visa","22":"tag-workers"},"wps_subtitle":"The Gulf country reversed the 2020 decision not to renew work permits for expats over 60.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}