Online Renewal of E-Passport for Kuwaitis, iiQ8 info Electronic Passport Online Register

1- The renewal fee should be paid through the electronic payment gateway, and those who have a valid ID for the elderly issued by the Ministry of Social Affairs or the ID for people with special needs issued by the Public Authority for Persons with Disabilities are exempted from the renewal fee, and they must review the General Administration of Nationality and Travel Documents or ID Centers National in the governorates to highlight the identity and conduct the renewal transaction.
2- He must be 21 years old or over.
3- He must be of Kuwaiti nationality and hold a Kuwaiti nationality certificate and have an effective nationality file.
4- That the person is alive and present inside the country.
5- He has an electronic passport and does not wish to make any modifications to the personal data printed on his current passport. Normal type / whether in Arabic or English, including profession statement and notes / page 2-3 of the passport.
6- In the event that the current electronic passport is effective, its validity period should not exceed one year, and in the case that the current electronic passport has expired, its expiry period should not exceed one year.
7- He should not have a new normal passport application transaction under execution through the Kuwaiti passport issuance sites.
8- He must not have obtained the last ordinary passport through online services.
9- The fingerprint data should be available in the electronic passport issuance system at the General Administration of Nationality and Travel Documents.
10- The data of the automatic address of the person concerned should be available in the electronic passport issuance system at the General Administration of Nationality and Travel Documents.
11- That his current (ordinary) passport is not damaged, and it is necessary to go to the General Department of Nationality and Travel Documents to submit a report on the damaged passport.
12- That the current passport is not lost, and it is necessary to go to the General Directorate of Nationality and Travel Documents to submit a report of the loss of the passport.
13- The new passport is not delivered to the references except in the presence of the old electronic passport, and in the absence of the old passport upon receipt of the new passport, Ministerial Resolution No. (1440/2000) Article 1, Paragraph (2), which states (that it is not permissible to extract Replacement of a lost passport before the lapse of a period of no less than five months from the date of publication in the Official Gazette).
14- If an old photo (5 years or more ago) is stored on the electronic passport issuance system, the applicant will see a message “Please upload a photo” modern personality.
15- For security reasons, and since the travel document is the only internationally recognized identity outside the country, the accuracy of the image is required to match the image of the electronic passport holder stored in the systems of the General Administration of Nationality and Kuwaiti Travel Documents and belong to the applicant with the image that is uploaded, as it will be matched electronically, please see On the required specifications:

• The dimensions required for the image are 4 x 5.
• With a blue background contrasting with your face.
• High quality, glossy colors and no more than six months from the date of pickup.
• Look straight into the camera with a straight face without leaning in any direction.
• Keep the hair away from the face so that the edges of the face are clearly visible.
• The image may include a veil or facial jewelry.
• The veil should be monochromatic, allowing the entire face to appear from the bottom of the chin to the top of the forehead, with the edges of the face showing from both sides.
• Eyeglasses or jewelry must not obscure all or part of the facial features, so eyeglasses with thicker lenses or tinted lenses will not be accepted, and there must be no reflection from the lenses, rings or studs.
• Clear, not blurry, and has no red eye markings.
• Uniform lighting with an appropriate degree of brightness and contrast to reveal a natural skin tone.

16- In the event that the new image data is to be uploaded to the system, the image must not be taken with a “selfie” technology, and the image must be real, clear, unshaken, not subjected to modification, frills and additions, and the background of the image should be in a clear blue color.
17- It must also be of high quality, accuracy and clarity, produced by a professional photography (photo studio)
800 x 600 Px-72 Dpi , and transmitted and stored digitally from the studio to the device used to request the passport renewal service via a data transmission method (flash – disk). Laser – social media program -…) and not by direct imaging from the paper image to the device, as it loses its digital accuracy.
18- In the event that the new image does not comply with the conditions of the International Aviation Organization (ICAO) mentioned on the website of the Ministry of Interior, or the image is inaccurate, a message will appear to the applicant The picture does not match the specifications.
19- In the event that the applicant completes the step of completing the electronic payment process and the payment receipt statement appears on the screen, the passport application data will be transferred to the (ready to print) status, and thus the validity of the current electronic passport will be automatically canceled and the passport holder will not be able to travel from During it, he must go to the sites to receive the new passport after receiving a text message stating that.

For follow-up and inquiries, call the phone number / 25584499.