Around 29% of Kenyan Schengen applications are refused. Almost all of them cite one of six standard grounds, printed on the form you were handed. Those grounds are the entire brief for the next application — and most people never read them properly before paying another €90.
What should I do after a Schengen visa refusal in Kenya?
Start with the refusal letter: the grounds are ticked on a standard form and they tell you exactly what the consulate did not accept. Roughly 29% of Kenyan Schengen applications are refused, and the €90 fee is not refunded. There is no waiting period before re-applying, but re-submitting the same evidence produces the same answer. Opaige decodes the letter, rebuilds the evidence behind each cited ground, and re-files against the specific consulate that refused you — flat $199, with an 81% approval rate on re-applications after a previous refusal. No agent can guarantee a consular decision.
What the refusal actually meant
These are the grounds that appear again and again on Kenyan refusals. Almost all of them are documentary — decisions about the evidence you supplied, not verdicts on you as a person. That is precisely why a second application can succeed where the first did not.
Where these numbers come from. Refusal rate: European Commission Schengen visa statistics, latest published cycle (~29% for Kenya). Global average 14.8%. Kenya sits well below the West African refusal band but roughly double the world average.
How it works
We tell you what each ticked ground means for your specific file before you commit to anything.
Each cited ground gets rebuilt with evidence that answers it directly. Where a ground cannot be answered honestly, we say so.
The consulates operating through VFS and TLScontact in Nairobi do not all scrutinise the same things. Your rebuilt file is checked against the one deciding it.
Immediately is allowed. Better is once the financial picture reads as settled rather than assembled.
Flat fees. The service guarantee is included — if we make a review error, your service fee is refunded in full.
Paperwork only · 10 business days
Your plan, our application · 7 business days
We take responsibility for the plan · 3 business days
Dedicated specialist · 6–12 hours
Flat fee, agreed before we start. Consulate, embassy and application-centre fees are paid separately at exact cost — we never mark them up, and we never take a share of them.
Immediately — there is no mandatory waiting period. The real constraint is whether anything in your evidence has actually changed since the refusal.
No. It pays for the assessment, not the result. That is the arithmetic that makes a proper pre-submission review worth its cost.
It is visible to the next consulate, so pretending it did not happen is the wrong strategy. An application that visibly resolves the earlier grounds is far stronger than one that quietly repeats them.
It means the consulate did not believe the documents supported the story, most often because the form, the cover letter and the bookings disagreed with one another. It is usually a consistency problem rather than an honesty one, and it is fixable.
No, and be wary of anyone in Nairobi who says they can. Our published record is 81% approval on re-applications after a refusal and 94% on first submissions.
We read the grounds before you commit to anything. If your file cannot honestly be fixed, we will tell you that too — that answer is worth more to you than a second lost fee. Kenyan applicants, flat $199.
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