The rules are published. The route through them is not.
Kenya's fees and requirements sit in gazettes, schedules and forms. What is nowhere is the order they go in for your facts, the office that handles each one, and the date the next one falls due. FullStanding charts that. The practitioners at hcg.africa check every figure on it before you see it.
What goes wrong without a map
An obligation you did not know you had, because nobody told you it applied to a company your size. A requirement that changed last year and did not announce it. A deadline that lives in one person's head and stops existing when they are away. And the expensive one: a step taken out of order, which sends you back to the counter you started at, with the same file.
Who writes a route
A practitioner at hcg.africa who has taken that document through, more than once. They name the steps, the office at each one, the statutory fee and the realistic wait. A second practitioner walks the route on paper before it goes up.
How a figure gets checked
Every fee and duration on the site carries its source and the date we last looked. When a schedule changes, the new figure goes on with a new date, and matters already open keep the rules they started under. When a figure fails the check, the route comes off the site until it passes. Three worked routes came down in July, because a fee on one of them was for a passport booklet Kenya had withdrawn. The check found it before a reader did.
Passport figures last checked 2026-07-31.
We chart procedure
That is the whole of it, and it is a definition rather than a disclaimer. FullStanding maps the steps, offices, fees and waiting periods a document requires, and keeps that map current. What it does not do is tell you how to argue an exemption, answer a penalty or settle a dispute. Those are legal questions, and a practitioner takes them, working from the same map you are looking at.
The practice behind it
hcg.africa, a compliance practice in Nairobi. FullStanding was built inside it and is still validated by it. Its practitioners work these procedures for clients every week, which is the reason a fee on this site is one somebody paid at a counter rather than one somebody read on a page.
Kenya first, then East Africa
The practice is in Nairobi, so Kenya is where a route can be validated end to end, counter by counter, and that is where we publish. East Africa follows on the same terms: a practitioner who works the jurisdiction, or no route.