Kenyan Embassy processing K1visa

[IRP 20]

Dear East Africans.. Does anyone know how long it takes For the Kenyan EMbassy to contact you after receiving the NoA2...   i mean Wanna know how long one has to wait after receiving the NOA2 to get the interview date scheduled... if anybody knows this. cause it seems most East African filers don’t create timelines on here.  Curious

[Crazy Cat 41,985]

*** I moved this thread to the Africa: Sub Sharan regional forum for consulate specific answers*****

[IRP 20]

3 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

*** I moved this thread to the Africa: Sub Sharan regional forum for consulate specific answers*****

oh thank you dear . 

[JeanneAdil 6,587]

after the NVC sent the embassy case # and the  NOA2 says the case is sent to embassy,   the beneficary needs to fill out the ds 160 and follow instructions to schedule the interview 

so,  all is dependent on available space for the interview and the beneficary to take one of the spaces per embassy instructions 

[IRP 20]

32 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

after the NVC sent the embassy case # and the  NOA2 says the case is sent to embassy,   the beneficary needs to fill out the ds 160 and follow instructions to schedule the interview 

so,  all is dependent on available space for the interview and the beneficary to take one of the spaces per embassy instructions 

well the thing i want to know is how long it takes the NVC to send the case to the Kenyan embassy.  In this year. 2022. 

Edited June 15, 2022 by IRP

[JeanneAdil 6,587]

25 minutes ago, IRP said:

well the thing i want to know is how long it takes the NVC to send the case to the Kenyan embassy.  In this year. 2022. 

impossible to answer this  

[KESA 18]

On 6/15/2022 at 4:42 PM, IRP said:

well the thing i want to know is how long it takes the NVC to send the case to the Kenyan embassy.  In this year. 2022. 

We were DQ'ed March 17th 2022. It's been ~99 days as of today and our case hasn't been sent from the NVC to the Nairobi embassy yet. I'm hoping that we'll get a notification soon, but the NVC is so backed up I don't know

 

I emailed the Nairobi embassy and they responded very quickly that the case hadn't been sent to them so they can't provide any information. So I think the backlog is the NVC, not the Nairobi consulate..

[IRP 20]

4 minutes ago, KESA said:

We were DQ'ed March 17th 2022. It's been ~99 days as of today and our case hasn't been sent from the NVC to the Nairobi embassy yet. I'm hoping that we'll get a notification soon, but the NVC is so backed up I don't know

 

I emailed the Nairobi embassy and they responded very quickly that the case hadn't been sent to them so they can't provide any information. So I think the backlog is the NVC, not the Nairobi consulate..

that is wierd and makes me loose hope.  it actually seems to be only our cases the East African ones.  Cause when you look into other people’s timelines from other countries their cases seem to be worked on quickly after receiving the Noa2 . they don’t take long to be sent from NVC..😭😭😭

Edited June 24, 2022 by IRP

[Eduh 28]

On 6/24/2022 at 1:17 PM, KESA said:

We were DQ'ed March 17th 2022. It's been ~99 days as of today and our case hasn't been sent from the NVC to the Nairobi embassy yet. I'm hoping that we'll get a notification soon, but the NVC is so backed up I don't know

 

I emailed the Nairobi embassy and they responded very quickly that the case hadn't been sent to them so they can't provide any information. So I think the backlog is the NVC, not the Nairobi consulate..

Any updates?

 

[KESA 18]

On 12/6/2022 at 10:17 AM, Eduh said:

Any updates?

 

Not yet... It's been about 8.5 months since we were DQ'ed. Based off the limited information I've seen around timeline from DQ to interview for people applying at the Nairobi consulate - it seems like 10-12 months is the general wait to get an interview scheduled at the Nairobi embassy. So I'm hopeful we'll hear back by January or February - but we'll see.

 

Apparently the Nairobi embassy will alert the NVC to how many slots they have for interviews a month, and the NVC will forward that number of applications, in order of the those that were approved first / are at the front of queue. It's an especially frustrating system because every inquiry we've sent, we just get a canned/useless response back where the embassy always replies that they don't have our case yet and the NVC always replies that they're waiting on the embassy lol 

[Chrissss 11]

We've just gotten our packet of instructions from the embassy. But were concerned about the police certificate. She is Kenyan but lived in Uganda for a few years for college, Earlier this year she went back to get a police cert from the Ugandan police, but I read somewhere in another topic that you actually need a yellow form from Interpol and that they wont take the form from the Ugandan police. Can anyone confirm and if so how do we get that form?

[IRP 20]

12 hours ago, Chrissss said:

We've just gotten our packet of instructions from the embassy. But were concerned about the police certificate. She is Kenyan but lived in Uganda for a few years for college, Earlier this year she went back to get a police cert from the Ugandan police, but I read somewhere in another topic that you actually need a yellow form from Interpol and that they wont take the form from the Ugandan police. Can anyone confirm and if so how do we get that form?

yes you need the certificate of good conduct from interpol.  and you can apply for that online. interpol website and then make an appointment to submit in your fingerprints 

[Chrissss 11]

16 hours ago, IRP said:

yes you need the certificate of good conduct from interpol.  and you can apply for that online. interpol website and then make an appointment to submit in your fingerprints 

Yeah, someone else reached out to me with instructions so were already making plans to get that done. It is a bit of a pain though, her having to go all the way back up there again. I am assuming she has to go the interpol location that's actually in Uganda right?