Just Thoughts

My passport expires early August. All this time I thought I can renew it here. I called up Kuwait Embassy and to my surprise I have to send it to someone back home to renew it for me! What if I have nobody back home, what is the procedure then?

You need to fill out a form and this form is not available online, you either have to go to the headquarters in London or they’ll mail it to you. Weird, you’d think it is a super form, it is a lousy un-scanable, the printed form is so badly scanned and indented, it is pathetic!

You need to provide four photos with a blue background. The official photographs in UK are with a white background. I ended up having my photo snapped in the middle of Jessop with a white background and told them back home to photoshop in the blue background.

Also, you need to write an official letter to “مسئول الشئون القنصلية” stating that you are student, where you study, your address and the person who’s going to renew your passport information.

I filled the form, popped in the photographs, the official letter and passport and sent them off to the embassy in UK. According to the embassy official, all should arrive to Kuwait by Monday.

Almost all my official identification end in 2010! My passport, my civil ID and my Kuwaiti bank card!! 3ad I do not know how I’m going to handle my bank card, I need to call KFH.

I’m coming back passport-less, bank card-less, civil ID-less! Yeah and I think my car back home isn’t working Actually the A/C isn’t working, but it is all the same to me, NO A/C is NO use