Kuwait CITRA: New TA regulation published,

(Update October 17th) CITRA issued the English version of the regulation. It can be downloaded from the authority website

(Update Sept 29th 2021): CITRA raised the type approval fee with no prior notice to make it 3 times the current fee. Realtime will update its customer on the new pricing for this country.

CITRA published a new regulation (arabic only) for type approval.. Main changes:

1- Approval validity increased to 3 years from 1 year

2- Approval ID is maintained unchanged in case of renewal

3- Renewal application needs to start not before 3 months before expiry and no more than 20 days after expiry. If no application is received within these limits, the certificate will be cancelled

There is no transition period but Realtime ongoing applications are receiving a one year only validity.

We are still interacting with the authority to check the applicability of other provisions and will update as soon as possible on our finding

kuwait: partial curfew in all parts of the country

قرر مجلس الوزراء الكويتي خلال اجتماعه الاستثنائي، اليوم، برئاسة الشيخ صباح خالد الحمد الصباح، فرض حظر تجول جزئي في كافة أرجاء البلاد، اعتباراً من يوم الأحد المقبل. وذكر بيان للمجلس أن الحظر يشمل الفترة من الخامسة مساء وحتى الخامسة صباحاً، لمدة شهر كامل…

قرر مجلس الوزراء الكويتي خلال اجتماعه الاستثنائي، اليوم، برئاسة الشيخ صباح خالد الحمد الصباح، فرض حظر تجول جزئي في كافة أرجاء البلاد، اعتباراً من يوم الأحد المقبل. وذكر بيان للمجلس أن الحظر يشمل الفترة من الخامسة مساء وحتى الخامسة صباحاً، لمدة شهر كامل. وقد سجلت الكويت قفزة قياسية في إصابات فيروس كورونا خلال الأيام الثلاثة الماضية، حيث بلغ إجمالي الإصابات خلال تلك الأيام 4466 حالة جديدة، و20 حالة وفاة.

Kuwait: Curfew extended to May 31st; 2020

On Monday; April 20th 2020, Kuwait announced the extension of the curfew in the country until May 31st; 2020; the curfew includes suspension of work in public sectors and ministries.Realtime is closely monitoring the situation; due to the current event…


On Monday; April 20th 2020, Kuwait announced the extension of the curfew in the country until May 31st; 2020; the curfew includes suspension of work in public sectors and ministries.

Realtime is closely monitoring the situation; due to the current events; the online portal of CITRA goes down frequently; however; we manage to submit whenever the portal is back on.

Kuwait : Curfew extended to April 23rd, 2020.

Kuwait extended again its curfew on the country to April 23rd, 2020, as Realtime confirmed with its contacts in Kuwait. Though, the staff of CITRA will come back to work until end of the curfew, the portal of the authority is back online and operationa…

Kuwait extended again its curfew on the country to April 23rd, 2020, as Realtime confirmed with its contacts in Kuwait. 

Though, the staff of CITRA will come back to work until end of the curfew, the portal of the authority is back online and operational, submissions are possible, but further review is expected after end of curfew.

Kuwait Extends curfew for two weeks

Earlier Kuwait was on curfew that was settled to end on March 26th, however, the government decided to extend the curfew to two more weeks. During this shutdown, CITRA online portal is still down and its staff members are not working remotely.Realtime …

Earlier Kuwait was on curfew that was settled to end on March 26th, however, the government decided to extend the curfew to two more weeks. 

During this shutdown, CITRA online portal is still down and its staff members are not working remotely.

Realtime confirmed the situation with CITRA authority, work is planned to be resumed on April 12th.