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Ambassador Kyle McCarter says Kenyans implicated in corruption and drug trafficking will not be allowed to visit the United States.
In an interview with Daily Nation, Ambassador McCarter indicated that the visa ban will also affect the family members of these individuals, noting that President…
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30 African-Americans and African-Britons recently left the United States and the United Kingdom to settle in Kenya and are hoping to become Kenyan citizens.
The group, which landed in Nairobi on Wednesday, says racial discrimination and mass shootings in the US in the recent past made them move,…
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday released preliminary fiscal year 2019 immigration statistics.
From the beginning of fiscal year 2019 through August, 2019, USCIS says it adjudicated nearly 7.5 million immigration benefits requests, an increase of 14% over…
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A Kenyan woman has narrated how she was racially profiled at an airport in Bangkok during her journey to Cambodia last week.
On October 7th, Renee Ezra made a decision to visit Cambodia due to its famous low-budget tourism destinations, history, and pristine coral beaches, Sunday Nation reports.…
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A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from implementing the “public charge” rule that was set to take effect on Tuesday, October 15th.
The rule would have made it more difficult for poor immigrants to get green cards. Specifically, it would make immigrants who…
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Details of how Kenyan nationals cheated their way to getting settled in the United States and other countries in Europe have been revealed.
The Kenyans, mostly of Somali descent, took advantage of a resettlement plan for refugees at the Daadab refugee camp in Northern Kenya to move to the US and…
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A family in Baltimore, Maryland has joined other couples in a class action suit in a Federal court in Maryland, accusing immigration agents of luring immigrants to marriage-based green card interviews, only to then detain the immigrant spouse pending deportation.
Alyse Sanchez says she and her…
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Registration for the 2021 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2021), also known as the Green Card Lottery, is currently ongoing. Registration for the program started on Wednesday, October 2nd and runs until November 5th, 2029.
The Diversity Visa program makes 50,000 visas available to nationals of countries…
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German immigration authorities last month reportedly hired a private jet to deport two Kenyan nationals.
The chartered aircraft allegedly cost €137,000 (Sh15.6 million), according to a report by ARD’s magazine Report München.
On September 5th, a Bavarian police van arrived at a Berlin airport…
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A new rule that is set to make it more difficult for immigrants to obtain green cards (permanent residency) and citizenship among other immigration benefits is set to go into effect next week.
The rule, titled ‘Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds” and initially pushed on the Federal Register…
