Gov’t delivers over 21K passports, more than 65K still to be collected

Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Prof. Kithure Kindiki on Saturday said that the initiative which seeks to clear passport backlog at the Immigration Department nationwide was at par with over over 87,000 having been produced in one week.

While stating that over 65,101 passports were still uncollected at different centres in the country, Kindiki reiterated his recent warning to applicants to collect their passports, failure to which they would be disposed and penalized.

 “We have details on the progress of Rapid Results Initiative (RRI) for delivery of ncollected passports in the first week (25th to 29th September 2023) and projection for the second week of the 4-week RRI,” stated Kindiki.

“Every Wednesday, the Immigration Department will publish a list of all applicants whose passports are due for collection the following week, to streamline the collection process. Persons who fail to pick up their documents within the stipulated period and at the expiry of the due notice will have their passports disposed of in accordance with the law and penalised when making a future application.”

In the city’s Capital, Nyayo House Immigration office, 9,331 passports have been processed and collected while 26,839 are still due for pick-up.

Embu Regional Office has 10,409 uncollected passports, Eldoret has 9,938 and Kisumu Regional Office has 9,515 due for collection.

Other regions include Nakuru Regional Office with 8,023, Kisii 7,971 and Mombasa 5,424.

The distributions of collected passports include Nyayo House (Nairobi) – 9,331, Embu Regional Office (2,426), Eldoret Regional Office (2,297), Kisumu Regional Office (1,763), Nakuru Regional Office (1,528), Kisii Regional Office (1,254) and Mombasa Regional Office (3,754).

Kindiki last week said the new reforms put in place to streamline services and efficiency in the Immigration department would see a turnaround in production, issuance, delivery and customer services.