Recently, President Uhuru Kenyatta openly reprimanded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure Kenyans in the diaspora apply for and receive passports at Kenyan embassies and missions where they reside. Before that, the inconveniences, costs and lost opportunities by Kenyans who had to travel to Kenya for application of e-passports were immense.
The Huduma Number (Namba) registration for the Kenyan diaspora has been launched in such Kenyan missions and embassies on May 6th, 2019 and is said to run for the next 45 days only.