Kenya Government Extends Deadline for Migration to E-Passports

Can they tell us what we will do with the old pp if it will not have expired after 10 months?

Throw the old one away or keep it as trophy if you cannot get a new digital kenyan passport in ten months. What a ***pid question?

Throw it away or keep it as trophy if you can’t get the new digital one.

Make the process easier for citizens in the diaspora. Most Kenya missions abroad are short staffed and incompetent. Do away with colonial regulations, the worst being, asking citizens who have a passport or older passport and with birth certificates and national ID cards ISSUED BY THAT SAME KENYAN GOVERNMENT to have some human of sound mind to recommend their citizenship??... a “recommender” of sound mind to recommend that the person is a citizen? to get a Kenyan passport... really? This is straight out of the old British Kenya colonial playbook. It reminds me of policy coming from the dreaded British Commissioner of Lands office in colonial Nairobi and to this day, land issues remain unresolved for many in Kenya. The other issue is logistics. A country like the US with 50 States should at least have several Kenya consulates or representatives or access points to help Kenyans living in the US access passport application offices easily. Traversing one corner to another in a continental country like the US just to access passport services is a joke. Also establish field offices to assist with biometric capture. UPS stores many of which are strewn across every state and every city have biometric capture machinery and hundreds of them do biometric capture for all manner application from law enforcement to job seekers etc. Liaison with UPS. They can take fingerprint data check documents per your standards take digital pictures and send these over to DC if having field offices is not doable. Field office collection points however remain the best option. Then be honest when working with Kenyans. If a Passport application takes 10 years to complete, be honest and let people know it takes that long. Don’t say 2-weeks only to keep people waiting. Be consistent. Every Kenyan embassy in the world should have the same information for services being provided and needed documents on their websites. Streamline ecitizen website to cater for diaspora who have no local numbers to establish accounts on the website so to access forms and other documents. Finally, be responsive when Kenyans contact the embassy via phone or email. Reply to calls and emails properly and promptly. Most if not all of Kenyan diplomatic missions to don’t pick calls nor return calls or respond to emails. The point of having a diplomatic mission is to fully assist your local country men and women living in the host nation by being accessible, polite, helpful and creating solutions for people with various difficulties to access information and services or needed help at the mission. Yours is to make the process easy and available and not complex and or redundant. Also, if Kenya and her missions cant meet these responsibilities, outsource representation to the Commonwealth head office or establish a common office through the UK High Commission or the EAC and shut down the defunct Kenyan missions and have diaspora access services and representation via a Commonwealth office (UK High Commission, Canadian High Commission, Rwandan High Commission etc etc.) There are hundred and thousands of Kenyans needing help and or stranded in various nations all over the world who would opt to returning home as an option, only to find most of their nation’s missions are nothing but help centers rather, hardship and cold stonewalling non-receptive rude missions of moral decay.