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Fees

New applications: Processing fees must be paid when the application is submitted. The payment (certified cheque or bank draft) must be attached to the application form. Cash payment, Personal Cheques, Credit Cards and Corporate Cheques are not accepted. Refer to the fee schedule for current rates. Just before paying, check this webpage again for the up-to-date information.

Current applications: If you are paying additional fees for an application currently being processed in Nairobi, the payment (certified cheque or bank draft) must be attached to the letter from our office requesting the additional payment.

Economic Class applications:

All applicants in the economic classes must submit their initial application to the Centralized Intake Office (CIO) in Canada. For more information on how to pay, visit the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) website. 

Family class applications:

All applications for sponsored family class members must be submitted to the Case Processing Centre in Canada. For more information on how to pay and where to submit your application, please refer to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) website.
 

Bank Draft, International Money Order and Certified Cheques:

Kenyan cheques will only be accepted if they are compliant with the new Cheque Truncation System

• If you are paying in Canadian dollars, the bank draft or certified cheque should be addressed to the Receiver General for Canada and should be cleared on a Canadian bank.
• If you are paying in US dollars the bank draft, certified cheque or international money order should be made payable to the High Commission of Canada in Nairobi (with principal applicant's name in brackets) and should be cleared on a American bank.
• If you are paying in Kenyan shillings*, the bank draft, certified cheque or international money order should be made payable to the High Commission of Canada in Nairobi (with principal applicant's name in brackets).
• Please note that payment in Kenya shillings will only be accepted from applicants applying from within Kenya. Applicants from the rest of the region must pay their fees either in Canadian dollars or American dollars. With exception of applicants applying through the Embassy of Canada in Addis Ababa, who can pay using a certified bank cheque (C.P.O) only in Ethiopian birr made at the Commercial bank of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa branch, and addressed to the Embassy of Canada, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
• Your payment must accompany your application.
• Please ensure that the bank does not forward your bank draft or certified cheque to this office.
• If your application is received at this office without the correct processing fee attached, your application will be returned to you without processing.

Other instructions:

• A receipt will be issued for each payment received. Please keep the receipt as proof of payment.
• Processing fees are non-refundable regardless of the outcome of the application.
• Bank charges for returned or rejected drafts will be charged to the applicant.
• Cash, personal cheques, credit cards, and corporate cheques are NOT accepted.

Important: Bank drafts and certified cheques have a limited validity. Ensure that your bank draft or certified cheque is not older than 4 months for Canadian and American Bank drafts and 6 months for Kenyan Bank drafts when it reaches our office.
 

Fee Schedule

Right of Permanent Residence Fee (RPRF)

Applicants for permanent residence can pay the Right of Permanent Residence Fee ($490) at the time they submit their application or at a later date when requested. The processing fee is still required when submitting an application.

The following applicants are not required to pay the RPRF:

• dependent children of a principal applicant or sponsor, a child to be adopted, or an orphaned brother, sister, niece, nephew or grandchild;
• dependent children of a principal applicant or sponsor, a child to be adopted, or an orphaned brother, sister, niece, nephew or grandchild;

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Date Modified:

2013-02-27