IMMIGRATION NEWS

The High Court in Nairobi has declared that Niger diplomat Oumarou Moumouni Ali was illegally deported from Kenya 10 months ago. Ali, who is Niger’s consul to Kenya and owner of the popular Kiza Lounge in Nairobi’s Kilimani area, was deported in August 2019 over allegations of engaging in…

(AP) The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. For now, those immigrants retain their protection from deportation and their authorization…

200 out of the 400 Chinese nationals who recently obtained a court order allowing them to leave Kenya amid the Covid-19 pandemic have traveled. The group is said to have departed the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) aboard a China Southern Airlines flight on Tuesday night. Isaac Okiya,…

400 Chinese nationals living in Kenya have obtained court orders compelling the government to allow them to return to their country on June 16th. Through their lawyer Isaac Okinyo, the Chinese citizens told the court that they fear contracting Covid-19 in Kenya and that the country’s health system…

Authorities in the US are holding Kenyan footballer, Crispin Ochieng' Olando for allegedly flouting immigration rules. Goal reports that Olando, 32, was arrested on March 18th, 2020 by officers from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is being detained at the Jackson Parish…

An ailing Canadian man who fears he could die soon has pleaded with Canada’s immigration to issue a visa to his Kenyan wife so she can visit him. Patrick Kinsella met 32-year-old Mary Atieno Otieno during a trip to Kenya in 2017 after she was introduced to him by a British friend. The two had been…

Results of the 2021 Diversity Visa/Green Card Lottery  (DV-2021) became available online on Saturday, June 6, 2020. The Diversity Visa program provides up to 55,000 permanent resident visas/ green cards to nationals of countries with low immigration rates to the United States. Participants who…

Results of the 2021 Diversity Visa program (DV-2021), popularly known as the Green Card lottery, are now available online. Individuals who entered the lottery during the open registration period that ran between October 2nd, 2019 and November 5th, 2019 can now check if they are among the…

Results of the DV-2021 Green Card lottery (Diversity Visa) will be available online starting tomorrow, Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 12pm EDT. Individuals who registered for the lottery during the open registration period that ran between October 2nd, 2019 and November 5th, 2019 will need to have their…

Results of the DV-2021 Green Card lottery (Diversity Visa) will be available online starting on Saturday, June 6, 2020. The State Department, which runs the program, had initially announced the results would be available starting on May 5, 2020, but the results were delayed by a month due to the…