Kuwait: Information on whether a Bedoon holding a blue Kuwaiti passport would be required to sign a yellow paper at the airport stating that the holder cannot return after leaving Kuwait
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 October 1993 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | KWT15260.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Kuwait: Information on whether a Bedoon holding a blue Kuwaiti passport would be required to sign a yellow paper at the airport stating that the holder cannot return after leaving Kuwait, 1 October 1993, KWT15260.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab2374.html [accessed 19 October 2022] |
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Information on this subject scarce and inconclusive.
According to a representative of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York, it is possible that the Kuwaiti authorities require a Bedoon holding a blue Kuwaiti passport to sign a paper stating that the holder cannot return to Kuwait (13 Oct. 1993). The representative did not know of any specific cases or where this had happened (Ibid.). A representative of the Kuwaiti Association to Defend War Victims based in Washington, stated that the Kuwaiti authorities require certain Bedoons to sign a paper stating that they will not return to Kuwait (14 Oct. 1993). After the end of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait a significant number of Bedoons came back to their former employment but not all of them were accepted by their employers (Ibid.). The Bedoons who were not granted entry in Kuwait were given a financial package, including work-related benefits, in order to facilitate their exit and to make sure that they would not remain in the country to go back to their old jobs or to search for a new one (Ibid.).
This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
References
Kuwaiti Association to Defend War Victims, Washington. 14 October 1993. Telephone interview with representative.
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York. 13 October 1993. Telephone interview with representative.
