National ID, passports and clearance certificates
National IDs, passports, visas and permits, voter registration, and good conduct, EACC and CRB clearance certificates. Answers come from the National Registration Bureau, Immigration, DCI and the other issuing offices.
Most asked
- Replace a lost national ID
- Apply for a Kenyan e-passport (first time)
- Get a Police Clearance Certificate (certificate of good conduct)
- Get your first national ID (from age 18)
- Renew or replace a Kenyan passport (expired, full, lost or damaged)
- Create an eCitizen account
- Apply for a Kenya work permit (foreigners, Class D employment and other classes)
- Get a passport for your child
All 95, A to Z
- A company leaked my data: do they have to tell me?
- Appeal a rejected refugee status decision
- Apply for a civilian firearm licence (firearm certificate)
- Apply for a dependant pass for your spouse or child
- Apply for a Foreign National Registration Certificate (alien card)
- Apply for a Kenya work permit (foreigners, Class D employment and other classes)
- Apply for a Kenyan e-passport (first time)
- Apply for or replace a Kenyan national ID while living abroad
- Apply for permanent residence in Kenya
- Authenticate Kenyan documents at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Bring in prescription medicines for your own use (PPB prescription import permit)
- Can a lender keep your ID card as security for a loan?
- Can an app, school or website collect my child's data?
- Can I get compensation if my data was misused?
- Can I vote if I live abroad?
- Can the government take away your Kenyan citizenship?
- Check if your national ID is ready for collection
- Check which political party you are registered in
- Citizenship of an abandoned child found in Kenya
- Class K residence permit for retirees (ample means)
- Complain about a mobile network, internet or postal service to the Communications Authority
- Complain about misuse of your personal data (ODPC)
- Complain about police misconduct to IPOA
- Correct or change details on your national ID
- Create an eCitizen account
- Declare cash of USD 10,000 or more when entering or leaving Kenya
- Declare dual citizenship or regain Kenyan citizenship
- Deportation and removal of foreigners from Kenya
- Does a foreign child adopted by a Kenyan become Kenyan?
- eCitizen help: payments, receipts, contacts and changing your phone or email
- Extend a visitor's pass or get a special pass (foreigners in Kenya)
- Find a Kenyan embassy or high commission abroad and its consular services
- Get a Certificate of Identity (travel document for foreigners)
- Get a Convention Travel Document (refugee passport)
- Get a diplomatic passport (eligible officials only)
- Get a letter from your chief or assistant chief
- Get a movement pass to travel out of a refugee camp
- Get a notarised document authenticated by the Judiciary (for use abroad)
- Get a passport for your child
- Get a police abstract (lost ID, documents or an accident)
- Get a Police Clearance Certificate (certificate of good conduct)
- Get a re-entry pass (dependant pass holders)
- Get a student's pass to study in Kenya (foreign students)
- Get a temporary permit to travel within East Africa
- Get an emergency travel document after losing your passport abroad
- Get an Interstate Pass to travel to Uganda and Rwanda
- Get EACC clearance (self-declaration form) for a public job
- Get emergency help as a Kenyan in trouble abroad
- Get police cash bail or a free bond after arrest
- Get your CRB credit report and clearance certificate
- Get your first ID as an adult who never registered (late registration)
- Get your first national ID (from age 18)
- Give feedback or complain to the Ministry of Interior
- How to get a copy of the data a company holds about you, and how long it has to reply
- How to stop marketing SMS, calls and emails
- Huduma Centres: services, opening hours and how to find one
- Import a firearm, get a temporary firearm permit or transfer a gun
- Join a political party
- Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011 and its Regulations: overview and where to read them
- Kenya Diaspora Policy 2024: what it says and where to read it
- Kenya Electronic Travel Authorisation (eTA) for visitors
- Kenya immigration forms: which form to use and where to get it
- Kenya's refugee camps (Kakuma, Kalobeyei, Dadaab) and the Shirika Plan
- Kenyan citizenship by ancestry, descent or investment: what the law allows
- Maisha Namba and the Maisha card: what they are and how to get one
- Passport and immigration offices by town: Nyayo House and regional centres
- Probation officer reports for court: bail information, pre-sentence and victim reports
- Refugee resettlement abroad (UNHCR)
- Register a child or adopted child as a Kenyan citizen
- Register a SIM card and deal with lines in your name
- Register as a Kenyan citizen (by marriage or long residence)
- Register as a Kenyan citizen if you are stateless, a migrant or their descendant
- Register as a Kenyan living abroad (diaspora registration)
- Register as a voter, transfer or check your registration (IEBC)
- Register as an asylum seeker and get a refugee ID
- Register for a Mobile Consular Service visit (passport, ID and consular services abroad)
- Renew or replace a Kenyan passport (expired, full, lost or damaged)
- Renew or replace a refugee ID card
- Renounce Kenyan citizenship
- Replace a lost citizenship certificate (duplicate)
- Replace a lost national ID
- Replace a lost, stolen or damaged Kenyan passport
- Report a missing person to the police
- Report corruption to the EACC
- Report cybercrime or online fraud
- Resign from a political party (or leave one you were registered in without consent)
- State Department for Diaspora Affairs: what it does and how to reach it
- Track your passport application and collect your passport
- Types of Kenyan citizenship explained (birth, registration, dual)
- Visa requirements for Kenyan citizens travelling abroad
- Visit an inmate in prison
- What the law says about giving up Kenyan citizenship
- Who is a Kenyan citizen by birth
- Your right to an ID card and a passport
- Your rights over your personal data