IMMIGRATION NEWS

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently made public its proposed regulation to change the way in which H-1B cap-subject petitions are filed and selected. By way of background, the H1-B program allows companies in the United States to temporarily employ foreign…

Deputy President William Ruto has announced that the government has pushed the deadline for replacing old generation passports with electronic ones to 2020. Ruto says only 400,000 Kenyans out of the more than 2.5 million passport holders have acquired e-passports ahead of the initial August, 2019…

The city of Baltimore has sued the Trump administration for its proposal that makes it more difficult for immigrants who receive public benefits to gain legal immigration status. Baltimore has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Maryland seeking to block the Trump…

Kenyan Muslim leaders want Immigration officials to stop forcing members of the religion to remove their caps when being photographed during application for passports. In a letter to Kenyan Immigration authorities, the leaders term the move as discriminatory since it contravenes their doctrines.…

At least 104 Kenyans have been deported from the United States by President Donald Trump's administration between 2017 and early 2018. The figures are found in the latest report by US' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE notes that the leading reasons for deportation of Kenyan nationals…

67 Kenyans are currently languishing in United States prisons over immigration related offences. Latest data released by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detainees shows that 14 Kenyans are detained in Texas, seven in Georgia, six in Minnesota while Washington DC has four. The rest are…

Registration period for the 2020 Diversity Visa program (DV-2020), popularly known as the Green Card Lottery, ends today, Tuesday, November 6th at 12pm ET. Officially known as the Diversity Visa program and administered annually by the United States State Department, the program makes 55,000…

South Africa has agreed to ease visa application rules and entry conditions for Kenyan business people and academia. This comes after extensive talks between Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government Fred Matiang’i and South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister,…

Canada's Minister for Immigration Ahmed Hussen has announced that the country will be taking 40,000 more immigrants in 2021 than it plans to accept this year. The increase means that the North American nation will admit 350,000 new immigrants in 2021, representing close to one percent of the…

Qatar has abolished its controversial exit visa system in a move that is welcome news to hundreds of Kenyan migrants working as domestic workers, cleaners, drivers and chefs in the country. The move means migrants can freely return home following the lifting of the tough law that required…