High court has suspended gazette notice that increased charges on a number of government services, case mention set for November 29.
Justice Lawrence Mugambi gave orders following a petition by a Nakuru based surgeon Magare Gikenyi on the new charges for Identification Card and passport issuance.
Further, Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof. Kithure Kindiki announced on Wednesday 8 through a gazette notice that the standard 34-page passport application fee has increased to Kes 7,500 up from the current Kes 4,500.
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
The marriage processing charges at the Attorney General’s office was increased from Kes 5,000 to Kes 50,000.
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.
To acquire a birth certificate of current birth was increased from Kes 50 to Kes 200 same to death certificate, late registration of the two documents was increased from Kes 150 to Kes 500.
Furthermore, refugee travel documents will be issued at no cost.
In the revised charges, first-time ID applicants will pay Kes 1,000 to acquire the formerly issued documents at no cost.
Replacing lost IDs will require payment of Kes 1,000, marking a tenfold increase from the current Kes 100.
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.
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.
