Kenya visa, visa extension and K type residence permit

If your original Kenya visa has not expired, then you can re-enter Kenya on the same single entry permit.  Assuming you were permitted entry for 90 days, you can extend the visa by a further 90 days.  At this point you must exit Kenya and the EAC in order to renew the visa for Kenya.  You apply online through ecitizen and follow the instructions.

Class K permit; unfortunately if you apply based on savings, the application will fail as immigration need evidence of an income; $24,000 per year minimum.  This must not be derived from employment in Kenya.  There is also a lower age limit for the Class K (can't remember off the top of my head, what this is).

Is there any explicit or implicit but regularly applied rule about how long one can stay in Kenya over the year on single-entry visas and extensions?
For example, visa+extension=6 months, then one month out of EAC and come back to Kenya and stay next 6 months -- will it be possible or not?

<<For example, visa+extension=6 months, then one month out of EAC and come back to Kenya and stay next 6 months -- will it be possible or not?>>

Yes that is possible.  What Immigration don't like is people to leave Kenya to a day or two, then re-enter, for the purpose of renewing their visa.  Being granted an entry permit is always at the discretion of the immigration officer and if they think that you are trying to 'work the system', they can make things very difficult.

Longonot62 wrote:

<<For example, visa+extension=6 months, then one month out of EAC and come back to Kenya and stay next 6 months -- will it be possible or not?>>

Yes that is possible.  What Immigration don't like is people to leave Kenya to a day or two, then re-enter, for the purpose of renewing their visa.  Being granted an entry permit is always at the discretion of the immigration officer and if they think that you are trying to 'work the system', they can make things very difficult.

Your help is priceless.
Problem with immigration that it is impossible to understand what they really want. For many years in Thailand, people were making visa runs to Cambodia, and Laos and immigration were ok with it. Then they stopped be ok. Why? I don't fully understand. They obviously interested in expats from Europe but they started to behave like they aren't.

Please,  I'm looking into the possibility of retiring in Kenya.  Is there an upper or lower age limit to apply for a Class K retirement visa,  please?  I'll not be working nor doing business in Kenya.  Kind regards.

If $25,000 is for 1 person,  how much income would a couple need to be able to apply for a Class K visa?  Thanks for your help.

Hi.you can apply for the class K visa once approved you can apply for a dependant pass for your spouse.
Thanks

Lower age is 35 years