Kenya Consulate interviews

[retheem 553]

So i had been playing around with some numbers at the CEAC visa status check and it looks like they are at those cases which finished DQ  in Jan/ Feb?

[Kenyan Couple 21]

7 minutes ago, retheem said:

So i had been playing around with some numbers at the CEAC visa status check and it looks like they are at those cases which finished DQ  in Jan/ Feb?

Could you include a pic of what you are seeing// or the message?

[GregandNatty 195]

38 minutes ago, retheem said:

So i had been playing around with some numbers at the CEAC visa status check and it looks like they are at those cases which finished DQ  in Jan/ Feb?

How are you finding this out?

[carolyne 20]

1 hour ago, retheem said:

So i had been playing around with some numbers at the CEAC visa status check and it looks like they are at those cases which finished DQ  in Jan/ Feb?

That’s pretty smart lol why didn’t I think to try it 😅

[retheem 553]

For example( two different case numbers on different days)

Edited November 19, 2020 by retheem

[carolyne 20]

😂😂

Edited November 19, 2020 by carolyne

[Kenyan Couple 21]

11 hours ago, retheem said:

For example( two different case numbers on different days)

Someone whose interview had been canceled before COVID just did an interview yesterday. So you may be right, they are still attending to pre-COVID people. 

Edited November 20, 2020 by Kenyan Couple

[Juddy 22]

Wah 

[GregandNatty 195]

I see the VISA stats for the Nairobi embassy are out for October and the news isn't good.  They only issued 20 CR1/IR1 VISAs in October.   This is not a good sign at all.  They are moving at a snails pace.  They issued more in September even with all those DV VISAs they processed.  I wonder what the heck is going on there. 

 

One of the embassies in India issued over 200 IR1/CR1 VISAs in the same time period and COVID is much worse there than in Kenya.   

 

Edited November 24, 2020 by GregandNatty

[GregandNatty 195]

On 11/19/2020 at 8:35 PM, Kenyan Couple said:

Someone whose interview had been canceled before COVID just did an interview yesterday. So you may be right, they are still attending to pre-COVID people. 

 

Given the really low numbers of VISA's being issued out of Nairobi, I'm wondering if all they are doing is expedite requests.   In October they issued less IR1/CR1 VISAs than they did in July when Kenya was locked down. 

[Kenyan Couple 21]

5 hours ago, GregandNatty said:

 

Given the really low numbers of VISA's being issued out of Nairobi, I'm wondering if all they are doing is expedite requests.   In October they issued less IR1/CR1 VISAs than they did in July when Kenya was locked down. 

Sorry man, we are all in this together. It is very scary to imagine this might last another year, until a COVID vaccine is available in the region.

[Mtu Mzuri 92]

[Mtu Mzuri 92]

Hopefully this trend of increasing processing of K-1s across all other Embassies will extend to Nairobi soon.

[Mtu Mzuri 92]

On 11/19/2020 at 11:35 PM, Kenyan Couple said:

Someone whose interview had been canceled before COVID just did an interview yesterday. So you may be right, they are still attending to pre-COVID people. 

Hi. Do you know what type of Visa it was? 

[GregandNatty 195]

15 minutes ago, Mtu Mzuri said:

Hopefully this trend of increasing processing of K-1s across all other Embassies will extend to Nairobi soon.

 

This really mirrors the trend of pretty much all VISAs.   COVID hit in Feb/Mar, all the embassies started locking down and VISA processing plummeted.  Septemberish, Embassies started opening back up and processing started picking up.

 

However, the down side for all of us here in this thread is that Nairobi seems to be opening up MUCH more slowly than many other embassies.  Nairobi just isn't processing very many of any VISA except the big slug of DV VISAs they issued in September.