By AGGREY MUTAMBOMore by this AuthorThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected demands from governors to be given official visa facilitation whenever they seek to travel to the US for county business. “County officials not travelling on behalf of the national government must follow normal visa procedures and cannot be granted official visa status. But last month, the US Embassy in Nairobi wrote to the Ministry seeking to reclassify the visas government officials qualify for. In the new policy, county officials no longer qualified for Category A Visa, which is granted to government officials travelling to the US on national duty. Governors and other county officials will now be given B1/B2 Visas, a category that normally does not require facilitation notes from the Ministry.

Source: Daily Nation March 11, 2017 07:49 UTC