Welcome to the web-site of the British Embassy in Kuwait. We want you to find it useful, so please give us any
feedback, such as suggestions on information you would like included on the site, or ideas for making it easier to find your way round it.
Our Embassy team is committed to advancing British interests in Kuwait, and to offering the highest standards of service to those with whom we have business dealings. We are proud to be a highly diverse organisation - with 14 nationalities among our employees at the last count! - and we value the varied contributions to our work which we get as a result.
We are approaching the busy summer season in our
Visa Section. Last autumn we successfully introduced our biometric data collection for UK Visas (meaning that we now take electronic finger scans and digital photos of all applicants). And we opened our Visa Application Centre near the Central Bank, which is being effectively run by our commercial partners VFS. If you're applying for a UK Visa, make it easier for yourself by applying well before your planned date of travel - please don't run up close against your deadline, since our staff have many hundreds of applications to handle every week.
If you're a British Resident in Kuwait, we encourage you to register with our
Consular Section, so that we can get in touch with you in an emergency. Don't worry! - we are ruled by the Data Protection Act, and your information is safe with us. We'll only pass on your contact details to organisations such as the Police if required in a crisis.
The Embassy continues very active in promoting commercial relations with Kuwait, led by our
Trade & Investment Section. Kuwait was host to the Lord Mayor of London in February, and to HRH Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, in April - both of these high-level visitors contributing to the strengthening of trade and investment links between Britain and Kuwait. The Duke of York visited the "Britain in Kuwait" exhibition at the Sheraton Hotel, at which a good number of companies showed their wide range of British goods and services available to the Kuwaiti market.
If you are soon to go off on your summer break, we wish you safe travelling and happy holidays.
Stuart Laing
