Kenya’s Immigration Department to Deliver Passports Directly to Successful Applicants
The Kenyan Immigration Department is set to start delivering passports to successful applicants at their homes.
This comes after the department inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Posta Kenya that will see passports delivered directly to applicants.
The MoU was signed by Immigration Director-General Alexander Muteshi and Post Master General Dan Kagwe on Thursday.
The move is aimed at reducing congestion at immigration offices, saving time for applicants, and taming the spread of Covid-19. Muteshi noted that the initiative is currently on a pilot and will be rolled out fully starting September 1st.
“Through the initiative, passport applicants will not have to visit our offices to pick ready passports. This will significantly save time for applicants, reduce congestion in our offices, and help in the fight against the spread of Covid-19,” the Immigration Department said on Thursday.
With international flights resuming on August 1st in Kenya, the Immigration Department expects to see a spike in the number of people seeking immigration-related services.
Comments (4)
when will immigration department start accepting applications? or which passports will they deliver? if ID's are being processed why not passports- now that airspace is open, people needing to travel back to their countries of residence, for medical treatment, for business should be able to renew/apply for travel docs.
I applied for Kenya Id twice in DC but never got it. No response nothing. One was last year the other time was about 5 years ago.
why would two departments run by the same government need MOU to deliver services? is that not supposed to be done regardless?
Ati Posta Kenya? I sent 4 normal success cards to four different people in Kenya but they never reached! A letter was sent to me 6 weeks ago, haijafika! Naskia kuna wafanyikazi kazi yao ni kufungua mabarua za kutoka majuu na kupora kila kitu ndani. Watafikisha kweli Passports.