Entry Clearances: Kuwait

(asked on 18th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place in the Library a copy of the business case for extending the electronic visa waiver scheme to Kuwait.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 27th November 2014

The Home Secretary made a statement on the electronic visa waiver (EVW) scheme on 9 December 2013 (HC Deb, 9 December 2013, c4WS).

No impact assessment of the intended extension of the EVW scheme to Kuwait will be made public, on national security grounds.

The Government considers the immigration and other risks resulting from the extension of the EVW scheme to Kuwait to be acceptably low, and outweighed by the benefits of encouraging more legitimate Kuwaiti visitors coming to the UK.

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