{"id":130136,"date":"2026-02-06T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/immigration-service-responds-to-temporary-passport-booklet-shortage\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:04:07","slug":"immigration-service-responds-to-temporary-passport-booklet-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/immigration-service-responds-to-temporary-passport-booklet-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Service responds to temporary passport booklet shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 \u2014 The State Department for Immigration and Citizen Services has acknowledged public concerns over the temporary unavailability of A and B Series passport booklets on the eCitizen application portal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The department assured Kenyans that measures are being implemented to ensure that all passport applications are processed promptly, without inconveniencing applicants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reaffirm our commitment to facilitate travel in line with our mandate as we make efforts to ensure that all series are available,\u201d the department said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department urged applicants to remain patient as efforts continue to resolve the shortage, emphasizing that the disruption will not affect the processing of submitted applications.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens and travelers requiring passports were encouraged to continue submitting applications through the eCitizen portal while the department works to restore full availability of all passport series.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 \u2014 The State Department for Immigration and Citizen Services has acknowledged public concerns over the temporary unavailability of A and B Series passport booklets on the eCitizen application portal. The department assured Kenyans that measures are being implemented to ensure that all passport applications are processed promptly, without inconveniencing applicants. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}