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    "id": 1481038,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1481038/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musalia Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
        "slug": "musalia-mudavadi"
    },
    "content": "There is also an interesting scenario where some of the applicants have not collected their finalised national ID cards and passports at our missions. As of now, for instance, immigration in New York has in its storage eight ID cards, which the return mailing address given by the applicants were wrong and had been mailed back to the Mission. Emails or calls to the applicants could not go through, therefore, we still hold those IDs. I also would like point out that through the rapid results initiative by the State Department for Diaspora Affairs, where, in collaboration with the State Department for Immigration and e-Citizens, periodically decentralised the ID processing to other cities away from the Embassy where consulates are located. This is undertaken through the Mobile Consular Services Outreach Exercise which has seen 2,459 ID cards processed in outstations in Seattle, Atlanta, Minnesota, Dallas, Boston and Houston. Another phase of this Mobile Consular Services is being planned for the third quarter of the Financial Year 2024/2025. On the issue of the E-Citizen and the challenges of the OTP versus foreign cellular numbers, the Principal Secretary for Diaspora Affairs is engaging some of our local telecommunications on an option of an e-SIM card, which the diaspora can use while away for both e-Citizens. In addition, the State Department for Diaspora Affairs is preparing to deploy officers to support the service provision to the Kenyan diaspora in the three missions in the USA. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, the requirement is tabulated, so it may require further examination. I assure the House that either now or later, my Permanent Secretary, Dr. Sing’oei or I, will be happy to offer any written clarification beyond this."
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