Entering Iraq or Saudi from Kuwait

hola, i had an experience to cross Kuwait from Salmi border (i choosed salmi since i learned that the folks posted there are sort of relaxed in letting you thru - which turned out to be right).
I cant help u alot with the visa since i already had someone to arrange a multiple entry visa for me. But whenever i called the embassy , i got the STRITCT info by the book , but while travelling by land i observed the policies to be kinda relaxed.

Except for the visa what you need is you OWN car, car papers some people will tell u that u need to get insurance papers prepared already but you can get the car insurance againt a fee at the border customs/check point counters. The reason i said OWN car , is that for rentals , i think its not permissiable to avoid theft so i beleive there would be a procedure from your rental agency to get an authority letter of which i dont have any knowledge - It dosent have to be your car it can be of ur relative/friend provided he/she is with you at the time of travelling.
While crossing the boarder i was asked at customs about my destination , which he took a note of . So in order to avoid suspecision i think you can tell them the city name which is closest to boarder and reason for visit and drive back to Wafra boarder to enter - I know it will be hassle to drive some thing like 150-200 KM's (approx) to get back in , but as i said this will avoid the customs guy raisisng and eye brows.

hope it helped

Hi uzair83

Thank you for that information. It's really interesting.

The Salmi border looks like a good option for me but one question: did you already have an entry visa to get into Saudi?   I can't get this - I already tried but the embassy said they don't issue transit visas and because my family are not residents we can't get regular umrah visas. So I was thinking to try to drive to the border and just ask nicely. 

The tip about the car is useful - we have a rental and I hadn't thought about that.

I understand that you exited at Salmi and then drove down to enter Kuwait from Wafra. But why not just re-enter at Salmi? The border guys can see in your passport when you exited and where.

Is there any chance of entering Iraq?  Do you know?

Thanks again.

Actually i didnt do this exercise as a workaround for the situation you are in - i travelled thru salmi to get to  bahrain
And yes, i do had a multiple entry visa for Saudi , about the info you mentioned in your last post about the family members being non resident meaning they would have a visit visa , and from the experience i know that taking a visit visa for Country C while you being in a country B (and originally from being country A) , its not allowed to avoid fraud cases.

Exiting Salmi and entering Wafra was just away to kill time and avoid being suspecious, otherwise you just dont wana ago in  - wait for like 10 minutes and come back

Entering Iraq i dont have that experience and i prefer to keep it this way hehe

Cheers

Thanks, again, for that. It makes sense. I think I'm going to abandon the 'drive across the border plan'.  Time for Plan B. Without a visa, there is probably little chance of being able to enter Saudi, and the Iraq option doesn't appear to be an option.

Thanks for your help though.