Later in the day, a security source told Agence France Press news agency that Kuwaiti authorities decided to tighten its rules for granting visas to Lebanese citizens without issuing an official circular in this regard, and that less than two weeks after a diplomatic crisis erupted between Lebanon and four Gulf countries.
The well informed security source who chose to remain unnamed said that that there is a “verbal decision to tighten the rules while issuing tourist and business visas against Lebanese citizens."