IMMIGRATION NEWS

Registration for the green card lottery program for fiscal year 2023 (DV-2023)  ends on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 12pm EST. Nationals of eligible countries around the world have seven days to register for the lottery, which started on October 6, 2021. The program makes available up to 50,…

Police in Athi River, Machakos County are detaining 131 Ethiopian nationals for allegedly being in the country illegally. The foreigners were arrested on Friday night in an operation conducted by a multi-agency team comprising of officers from the National Police Service and Transnational Organized…

President Kenyatta says plans are underway to introduce new identification cards with a microchip feature. Kenyatta said the new IDs are part of the ongoing digitization efforts by the government in order to eliminate the use of false identities by criminals and fraud.  “Digitization aims to…

Former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has announced he will be traveling to Canada to bring back lawyer Miguna Miguna, who was deported in 2018. Mutunga in a statement on Wednesday said he will return to the country with Miguna on November 16th as he condemned the government for disobeying court…

The number of countries that holders of Kenyan passports cannot travel to has dropped to 43 from 54 in July. The Henley Passport Index, which regularly monitors the world’s most travel-friendly passports, made the revelations in its quarter-four report released this week. The report shows that some…

Registration for the green card lottery program for fiscal year 2023 (DV-2023)  began on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 12pm EDT and will run until Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 12pm EST. The green card lottery program, officially known as the Diversity Visa program, is run by the US State…

Registration for the green card lottery program for fiscal year 2023 (DV-2023) begins October 6, 2021 and runs until November 9, 2021. The green card lottery program, officially known as the Diversity Visa program, is run by the US State Department and makes on a lottery basis up to 55,000 green…

US District Court Judge Amit Mehta has issued an order reserving a total of 7,395 diversity visas that were set to expire on Thursday, the last day of the US government’s 2021 fiscal year. In the last-minute order issued on Thursday, judge Amit reserved 6,914 diversity visas for 22,203 plaintiffs…

The Directorate of Immigration Services has cautioned passport applicants against using brokers to by-pass the e-citizen appointment system. Immigration Director-General Alexander Muteshi said the department has set up systems to detect such cases, warning that those caught will have their…

The government has ordered a crackdown on illegal immigrants due to the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The operation will be conducted by immigration officers in collaboration with the National Police Service, according to Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho. The directive comes…