The government, through the State Department of Immigration and Citizen Services, has increased the cost of acquiring a new National Identity Card (ID) to Kes 1000, a service initially offered at no cost.

Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Prof. Kithure Kindiki announced replacing lost Identity Cards(ID) will cost b Kes 1,000 from Kes 100 in the revised charges.

The charges for identification reports have shot up to Kes 1,000 from Kes 300, while civil servants' cards will now cost Kes 1,000 from Kes 100.

Civil servants will similarly be expected to pay Kes 1,000 for their staff badges, an increase from the previous Kes .350.

Further, the standard 34-page passport application fee has increased to Kes 7,500, up from the current Kes 4,500.

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A 50-page ordinary passport will now cost applicants Kes .9,500 from the existing Kes .6,000 while the application fee for a 66-page ordinary passport has shot up by Kes .5,000 to Kes 12,500

Additionally, the fee for a 50-page diplomatic passport has doubled to Kes 15,000 from Kes 7,500, whereas the price for a 32-page service passport remains unchanged at Kes 3,000.

Replacing a lost passport will cost Kes 20,000, an increase of Kes 8,000 from the previous fee while replacing a valid mutilated passport will cost Kes 20,000 from Kes 10,000.

However, Kenyans will no longer pay Kes .3,000 for a temporary passport; this service will be free. An express passport will, however, come at a cost of Kes 30,000.

The price for temporary permits, certificates of identity, and emergency travel documents will remain the same at Kes .300, Kes 3,000, and Kes 3031, respectively.

 Furthermore, refugee travel documents will be issued at no cost.

Additionally, Kenyan couples looking to formalize their marriage at the Attorney General’s (AG’s) office will pay Kes 50,000 from Kes 5,000.

Similarly, Work Permit Investors (Class G) has increased to Kes 250,000 from Kes 100,000. Work Permit Investors (Class D) will now be charged Kes 500,000 instead of Kes .200,000.

Express work permits, special pass processing, dependant pass processing, and student internship processing fees will now cost USD 10,000, USD 200, USD 200 and USD 100. The services were all previously free of charge.

Work permit processing fees have tripled to Kes 30,000 while internship pass issuance fees have quadrupled to Kes 20,000 from the previous Kes .5,000.

Dependant pass issuance fees for spouses of Kenyans will be Kes 30,000, while reprocessing fees for rejected permits will cost Kes .20,000.

Validation of work permits will be charged USD 100. Cancellation of work permits and confirmation of residence documents will each cost Ksh.50,000, according to Kindiki.

Querying the status of work permits will be subject to a fee of Kes 1,000.

New birth certificate applications will cost Kes 200 from Kes 50. Application fees for death certificates have also quadrupled to Kes 200, while amendment fees for birth and death certificates have increased by Kes 870 to Kes 1,000.

The notice also highlighted that fees for the processing of Permanent residences for children of Kenyan citizens born outside Kenya had doubled to Kes 200,000 while the fees for the issuance of permanent residences for the same children had increased to Kes 1,000,000 from Kes 500,000.