IMMIGRATION NEWS

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…

Foreign athletes have been exempted from the coronavirus-related immigration ban announced by Trump administration last month. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf in a statement on Friday, May 22nd, announced he had signed an order exempting foreign athletes who compete in professional…

The US State Department has pushed the opening of the DV-2021 Green Card lottery Entrant Status Check to June 6, 2020. The State Department says that due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the entrant status check will be postponed from May 5, 2020 to June 6, 2020. The delayed opening “will not…

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to re-open its field offices, asylum offices, and application support centers (ASCs) to the public on June 4th, 2020. The offices have been closed to the public since March 18th due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. USCIS says even though…