IMMIGRATION NEWS

Hours before Kenya reopens its airspace for international flights, Chinese nationals have flocked the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi seeking to leave the country. Long queues were witnessed at the airport on Friday as foreigners, mainly Chinese, rush to exit the country amid…

A stateless Shona girl could not hide her joy after she finally acquired Kenyan citizenship after 20-year wait. 20-year-old Nosizi Dube was granted Kenyan nationality after Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i’s intervention. Her story was first highlighted early this month by renowned Kenyan…

A federal court in Canada has declared as unconstitutional an asylum agreement entered between the country and the US in 2004. Federal court judge Ann Marie McDonald on Wednesday ruled that the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) is invalid since the US violates the human rights of refugees. STCA…

Kenyan students have been invited to study in the UK following the opening of a new application window. The British High Commission in Nairobi through Twitter on Monday urged Kenyans who wish to undertake further studies in UK universities to take advantage of the opportunity. “Thinking of studying…

Trump's administration has withdrawn an earlier directive requiring international students to leave the country if their classes are moved online owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. The rescission of the rule that would have affected hundreds of thousands of foreign students enrolled in US institutions…

Highly skilled Kenyans without degree-level qualifications are set to be allowed to apply for work permits in the UK from January 2021. This will be realized under the UK’s post-Brexit immigration rules that lower the requirement for foreign job seekers to the minimum skill level of A-level or…

Kenyan students and scholars in the US have expressed their displeasure over the Trump administration’s order requiring foreign leaners whose classes are moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic to leave the country.  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) asked the affected students…

Travelers arriving in Kenya from abroad will no longer be subjected to mandatory quarantine over Covid-19, Transport CS James Macharia has said. On Wednesday, Macharia told reporters that this will apply to passengers and tourists who do not show any signs of contagious illness on arrival in the…

The Kenyan passport has defied the Covid-19 pandemic to retain its position as the 72nd most powerful passport in the world. This is according to the latest Henley Passport Index, which periodically measures the world's most travel-friendly passports based on the number of destinations their…

The US government has issued a revised policy for foreign students studying in the country.  Under the new rule announced on Monday by ICE, immigrant students whose classes are entirely moved online due to the Covid-19 pandemic are required to leave the US failure to which they will be removed…