Government of the Philippines has shown remarkable flexibility regarding Kuwait’s suspension of new entry visas for Filipino workers. Moreover, the government considers this as an attempt by Kuwait to put pressure on Manila to rescind its decision to ban the recruitment of new domestic workers to Kuwait, “we have not decided to lift the ban for the moment,” said the Philippines Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Eduardo de Vega. However, he added that the ban by the Philippines was not permanent and could be lifted in future depending on talks with the Kuwaiti side.

Philippines ban could be lifted in being hired as domestic although it considered that “Kuwait’s strictness represents a step to put pressure on Manila’s decision to lift the ban imposed on the travel of its workers,” the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Eduardo de Vega, said, “We have not decided to lift the ban now, but this doesn’t mean we won’t do that.”

Speaking during a television interview in the Philippines, De Vega explained that any decision to lift the ban imposed on the deployment of Filipino workers in Kuwait would be based on the conditions…