TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 9

UNCLAS KUWAIT 001037 SIPDIS DEPT ALSO FOR USAID - DCHA/OFDA GENEVA FOR UNDRO AND LRCS USCINCCENT ALSO FOR POLAD E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: AEMR AMGT PREL ASEC CASC EAID KU SUBJECT: TFIZ01 SITREP NO. 9 REF: KUWAIT 1013 AND PREVIOUS ¶1. SITREP NO. 8 AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL, 0800 HOURS WASHINGTON TIME MARCH 23. ¶2. EVENTS SINCE LAST SITREP (all reported times are Kuwait Local, GMT plus three): -------------- Security/Military -------------- Ops Center is aware of the events at Camp Pennsylvania, however we have not been involved. -------------- Political -------------- Nothing to Report -------------- Consular -------------- We have been told by the Saudi Embassy in Kuwait that individual American citizens wishing to apply for visas to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia should go the Saudi Embassy in Kuwait during business hours and apply in person. Applicants are required to complete a visa application form and provide passport-size photographs and copies of their valid passports and Kuwaiti residency permits. We have been told that gratis "emergency transit visas" will be issued to individual applicants, provided they have valid travel documents. There have been no requests for assistance in obtaining Saudi visas Kuwaiti immigration reports all quiet at the main POE on the Saudi border this morning. There are no "stranded" Americans. The Consular team from Dhahran that was at Khafji on the Saudi side of the border to assist Americans left yesterday after we agreed their presence was no longer required. We are in close touch with Kuwait Immigration and they have our emergency contact numbers if any Americans do need assistance. The remaining two Amcits who had contacted the Embassy for departure assistance are no longer interested. They have made their arrangements. No pending cases. -------------- Management -------------- Nothing to Report ¶3. COMMENTS: None ¶4. STATUS OF PENDING REQUESTS: n/a JONES