The national passport delivery will continue into the fourth week, with 13, 290 passports ready for collection from Monday, October 16, to Thursday, October 19.
The Directorate of Immigration Services on Thursday published the list of all passports that are ready for collection in the fourth week of the Rapid Results Initiative (RRI).
In Nairobi, 6,021 passports will be ready for collection at Nyayo House, 1,386 in Eldoret, 1,398 in Embu and 1,201 in Kisii.
In Nakuru, 801 passports are ready while 1,221 have been printed and awaiting collection in Mombasa.
In Kisumu, the department said 1,262 passports are ready for collection next week.
For the first week of RRI, which was between September 25 - 29, some 22,353 were delivered to regional centers to be collected by Kenyans.
Some 15, 354 passports were dispatched in the second week of October 2 and 6.
The government warned that passports that stay uncollected after their stipulated period of collection will be disposed of and the owners penalised in accordance with the law.
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has stepped up efforts to eradicate corruption at the Immigration Department following public outcry over delayed processing of the travel documents.
The uproar prompted Parliament to summon him for an explanation where Kindiki admitted that corruption was endemic at the Immigration Department but vowed to crash the cartels.
The CS banned boda boda riders and idlers around immigration offices and declared the area a corruption-free zone.
Kenyans who have made applications for passports since the operation to restore delivery time for travel documents by Kindiki have acknowledged that the turnaround period has greatly improved and the process is less hectic after a 24-hour shift was introduced.
Emergency applications for persons seeking medical care abroad, students due for admission to learning institutions outside Kenya and people who have secured job opportunities that have a clear reporting deadline are being processed expeditiously.
CS Kindiki said the reforms in the Immigration Department are bearing fruit and that people should visit to collect passports.
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