The issue of uncollected passports through the manual acquisition process to end as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration says manual passport application has ceased from the march 2020.
Given this, online passport application has been made available at all passport centers.
The Ministry is entreating Passport Applicants to use the online application platform; passport.mfa.gov.gh to submit their applications.
In 2018, the Passport Office reported that about 67,000 uncollected passports in their offices.
They complained that the situation has put a lot of stress on the few spaces left for staff to operate in, causing a lot of inconvenience to the staff.
The forms for regular application currently goes for GHS 50, and are expected to be processed within 4 weeks, while the forms for express applications are being sold for GHS 100, and are expected to be processed within 2 weeks, although the duration may slightly vary.
Despite promises by successive governments to improve the process, many Ghanaians are forced to pay bribes, pay exorbitant charges through middlemen popularly known as ‘Goro boys’ or queue as early as 3:00am each day to have their passport applications processed especially at the Accra application center.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
