Kenyan passport

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Kenyan passport is issued to Kenyan citizens in accordance with Kenya Constitution, 2010 and as governed by the Kenyan Citizens and Immigration Act beginning on August 30, 2011. In addition, the issuance process is governed by the Notice Law. 64 (Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Rules, 2012). If eligible, a person may apply for a New Passport, an Renewal Passport and an Alternate Passport. Passport issued by Immigration Department. This department is under the Ministry of Home Affairs and National Government Coordination.

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Bio-metric Passport

In September 2017, Kenya began issuing East Africa's new ePassport format. The Immigration and Admission Directorate of the People, Gordon Kihalangwa, said on a live Twitter chat that tracking the movement of individuals would be easier with ePassport. This is in line with the digitization of Kenya. This new e-system will improve efficiency and eliminate loopholes and enhance this one security from Kenya's goals in vision 2030. New bio-metric passports contain bio-data holders such as fingerprints, photographs and signatures that are digitally stored in among others.

Features of Kenya's Bio-metric passports;

Also to note is that the new colors adopted in regular Kenyan passports, the light Blue is the official color of the East African community. The new ePassport will be available starting September 1, 2017. The old common passports will be removed on August 31, 2019 and they will become unusable and stop recognized as travel documents. Existing old format passport holders are strongly advised to apply for a new ePassport before this date. All new passport applications are processed through the Kenyan Government portal E-citizen https://immigration.ecitizen.go.ke/index.php?id=4.

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Validity

According to the immigration department under the interior ministry and national coordination, and read in conjunction with the Kenyan constitution. The Kenyan passport is valid for ten (10) years after the date of issue. Also worth noting is that children and persons under the age of eighteen (18) years must have a self-issued government passport separated from their parents. Underage apps are performed on parent e-citizen accounts and obviously one of them chooses "minor apps". The same fee for adults and validity is also ten (10) years.

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Valid jurisdiction

The Kenyan passport is valid in all Commonwealth countries and all foreign countries.

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Registration

Overseas Kenyans should be on the earliest opportunity to register their names and addresses in nearby Kenyan missions or when there are no representatives of Kenya, with the nearest British representatives. Change of address or departure from country must also be notified. Failure to do so may in the emergency period result in difficulties or delays in giving them help or protection.

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Caution

Passports remain the property of the Kenyan government and may be withdrawn at any time. This is a valuable document and should not be altered in any way or authorized to assign the ownership of an unauthorized person. If lost or destroyed, facts and circumstances should be immediately reported to the passport office in Nairobi, or the Kenya mission abroad or the local police. New passports can only be issued in such cases after complete inquiries.

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Language

Kenya has two official languages, English and Swahili, and in all government and legal documents both languages ​​are used. In some cases, for a Kenyan passport, France is also used.

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Passport type

There are three types of passports:

• -Diplomatic (maroon cover): Can be made by accredited, accredited, Kenyan diplomats abroad and dependents of eligible persons and residents living in a foreign country.

• -Ordinary (light blue cover): Can be brought to Kenyan citizens while traveling abroad, valid for 10 years

• - East African passport (light blue cover): Can be taken to Kenya to travel in East African Community,

valid for six months and can be used for multiple entry into: Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.

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Appearance

The Kenyan passport has a Kenyan emblem decorated with gold in the center of the front cover. The words "EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY" are written at the top followed by the "REPUBLIC OF KENYA" written in the gold text above the emblem, while "PASSPORT" is written in the golden text underneath. Back cover left blank.

The passport entry occupies the first page of the passport, and the special page occupies the last one. The identity information page is printed inside the back cover of the passport, while the person's description and signature are on the next-to-last page. The Kenya passport page is watermarked with the Kenyan emblem. The pages showcase the designs with the 'big five game' animals commonly found in Kenyan parks and sanctuaries: lions, elephants, leopards, rhinoceros and Buffalo.

The front cover of the passport reads for the first time in Swahili:

This document is to encourage and urge you in the name of the President of the Republic of Kenya, all involved, to enable him to proceed with this document without any difficulty or obstacle, and help to keep him as far as he needs.

And in English:

It is to request and oblige in the Name of the President of Kenya all interested persons to enable the carrier to pass freely without letting or blocking, and to give him any help and protection that he can stand on need.

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Identity information page

The last page of Kenyan passport is laminated security and contains the following data:

• -Photport photo owners.
• -Type of document (P = Passport)
• -Note country code (K = Kenya)
• -Passport number. Six (6) numbers and one letter alphabet as shown "B227957"
• -Number of references or known as file numbers.
• -Same.
• Name -Given.
• -Problem name.
• -Sex
• -Problem name.
• -Date is out of date.
• -Nationality.
• - Place of birth.
• -Keytor who issued the passport.

This page ends in a machine-readable two-line machine, according to ICAO 9303 standards. There is also a holographic 3D copy of the owner's drawing, a holographic copy of two machine-readable lines Security features visible under special UV light. Micro-holographic printing and kinematic elements.

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RFID chip and bio-metric certificate

Since September 1, 2017, the Kenyan passport has an inexperienced smart card chip (proximity card) and a 13.56 MHz loop antenna embedded in the front cover page, according to the ICAO standard. Chips and antennas are not visually acknowledged, but their presence is indicated by the ICAO bio-metric passport symbol at the bottom. It carries all the bio-metric data printed on the passport, JPEG photo file, digitally protected by signature. Also a sequential serial number-alphanumeric entropy that has 45 bits. It increases the crypto-graphic power of basic access control mechanisms (BAC) from RFID chips, which makes brute force attacks almost impossible.

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Application process

Applications for all passport services are made online through https://www.ecitizen.go.ke/For new applicants, the process begins with creating an account at an online portal. The applicant can not use someone else's account because account creation details are the first name and the official national ID number. In addition, the applicant must print an online application, and a copy of the payment invoice, then present these and other documents directly. New passport issuance usually takes at least 10 business days after application is received. To apply for a passport, people will need:

• Documentary evidence of Kenyan citizenship in the form of birth certificates and national identity cards, plus details and identity cards of parents.
• In the case of previous citizenship to another country, Certificate of Naturalization or Registration.
• Passport-size photos.
• Photocopy of valid national identity card of the Recommend-signed on page 3, section 7 of the application form.
• A written consent of a parent or legal guardian, in the case of an applicant under the age of eighteen.
• Special case: Passport lost, mutilated, damaged. An application for any replacement must be accompanied by a formal statement or a written statement of the circumstances surrounding the loss, theft or damage to a passport or travel document. And accompanied by ID card and their birth certificate.
• Previous passport if available- (original and photocopy)
• Photocopy of a valid Kenyan national identity card from father or mother or both. If one (or both) are (already) copies of death certificates must be attached. The applicant must provide one (two) copies (ies) of the applicable Kenyan National Identity card from other relatives to act as the immediate family

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Dual citizenship

According to Kenyan constitution one can be a citizen of Kenya from birth or by registration. In the new constitution of 2010 unlike the previous one, it allows Kenyans who obtain citizenship of other countries after 27 August 2010, to have dual citizenship. He is required by law to immediately declare his status by completing:

• -Two sets Fully-filled Form-2-double citizenship declaration and attach the following documents:
• - Two copies of evidence of prior Kenyan citizenship (copy of passport, Birth Certificate, Kenya National Identity Card).
• -Two copies of evidence of citizenship of another country.

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Obtain citizenship

Persons who have lost their full nationality prior to August 27, 2010 are entitled to recover after completing:

• -Two copies of Form 5 "get back the citizenship form" and attach the following.
• - Two copies: a Kenyan passport, a national KTP or a birth certificate.
• -Two copies of evidence from other nationality countries.

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Persyaratan visa

Beginning January 1, 2018, Kenyan citizens have free visas or visas on access to 102 countries and territories, rated Kenya 72 passports in terms of freedom of travel (related to Omani passports) according to the Visa restriction index.

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See also

• Passport list
• Visa requirements for Kenyans

References

Source of the article : Wikipedia