Good resourceful people of Wazua,

I need your help. I seem to have lost my passport because i have looked everywhere and cant find it....

I will need to be travelling so i definitely need to either find it or start looking for alternatives(and this route seems to be my only hope this far). If i find it, i have no problem. if i dont and which is most likely, then i definitely need to get another. How do i go about this? how much will i be required to pay? how long will it take? Is Nyayo house still notorious of bribery or is the process easy now? do i need to "know" someone for the process to move/speed up? Anyone been there recently?

I will be very grateful.

i think its something like 3000 bob.

truth be told, I don't know ...but you probably still need to report to police for lost/stolen.

director of immigration services, sorry!

@Wendz, Nyayo House Passport offices have greatly improved their service delivery and efficiency so much so that the hours of service have been extended from: 0700 to 2000 Monday to Friday so I suggest you visit anytime before 0900 or after 1600 if you are scared of the ques. The passport staff are young friendly and very ready to serve you. After battling with poor image at last this Department seems to have made it in improving service delivery atleast on passport front.

here is the PP1 form for your application: http://www.immigration.g...mages/downloads/pp1.pdf please follow the list of requirements listed by kyt.

If you can get a copy of the previous passport it will be very helpful because they will need to invalidate the old passport just in case it falls into wrong hands. You must present yourself in person and only be sure to be served at the designated counters by an Immigration officer because brokers pretending to be "immigration officers" abound, you will be issued with a tracking number for which to use when making inquiries regarding the application. You will also have your photo taken after paying the 10040/= fee and viola! Don't bribe nobody and in case you are asked for a bribe write to: investigation.immigration@yahoo.com.

Loosing your passport used to be a nightmare because there used to be a requirement that the Department needed at least 3 months to make exhaustive investigation about the loss. This was revised but I gather there are so many people "losing" their passports and so many passports in the wrong hands i.e being used by imposters. Also it is no longer a requirement to publish loss in the dailies as this exposed many applicants to con men/women.