Interior Ministry to Issue New ID Cards, Passports Within 10 Days

Interior Ministry to Issue New ID Cards, Passports Within 10 Days

Interior Ministry to Issue New ID Cards, Passports Within 10 Days: Kenyans applying for national Identification Cards will only have to wait 10 working days before receiving them.

Immigration and Citizen Services PS Bitok stated, “It will now take you not more than ten working days from the date of application down from at least 21 days to get your ID. We want Kenyans to acquire their IDs as quickly and conveniently as possible.”

He was speaking during the national ID Day in Machakos, with this Year aimed at celebrating and creating awareness on the importance of acquiring National IDs.

The festivities were held in Machakos because the county has one of the highest numbers of youths eligible to register for IDs.

One of the biggest challenges the government faced in processing ID cards was the lack of modern printing facilities.

This was, however, recently resolved as Bitok revealed in July that the National Registration Bureau has acquired a modern printer which enhanced the printing capacity to 30,000 National ID cards per day. This is triple the number that the office could previously handle.

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