Hi, I’m not even sure what’s going on at the Nairobi embassy any more, I mean they seem to be processing more ‘immigrant visas’…below is a data breakdown of IV’s that were issued between June-September 2022 - I made a comparison between diversity visas vs CR1, IR1 visas ( please note this is official statistics from the travel.state websites’ Monthly Immigrant Visa Issuance Statistics
JUNE ( DV-29, CR1-4, IR1-55 )
JULY ( DV-66, CR1-2, IR1-10 )
AUG ( DV-208, CR1-1, IR1-9 )
SEPT ( DV-1034, CR1-0, IR1-1 )
Looking at these numbers we can conclude that the Nairobi embassy gave ‘priority’ to green card visas for during past four months ( October statistics haven’t been published yet and I’m really interested to see the new data ). I can understand the rational given DV visa fiscal year ends in September and they were trying to process as many DV’s as they could before September ends.
Similarly we’ll also be ‘upgrading’ from CR1 to IR1 by the end of the year, Nairobi seems to be processing more of the IR1’s so hopefully this is a good thing. 🤞🏾🙏🏾