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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has increased the application fees for passport services from \u00a2100 to GHC500 for a 32-page standard and GHC644 for a 48-page standard booklet, effective Monday, April 1, 2024.<\/b><\/p>\n

In the same vein, applicants opting for the 32-page expedited service will pay GHC700 and GHC800 for the 48-page expedited service.<\/p>\n

The new fees were contained in the Ministry\u2019s 2024 Budget estimates document, which has been approved by Parliament\u2019s Subsidiary Legislation Committee.<\/p>\n

The online passport application page of the Ministry has been equally updated to reflect the new fees.<\/p>\n

It would be recalled that in December last year, sector Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey requested Parliament\u2019s Committee on Subsidiary Legislation that the passport application fees be reviewed to allow the ministry to reduce losses in passport booklet printing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time for Ghanaians to pay realistic prices for passports they acquire to travel beginning next year,\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cGhanaians pay just about GH\u00a2100 for a passport yet to produce one passport booklet it costs GH\u00a2400 which means that for every passport that an applicant acquires, the government has to put in GH\u00a2300 and this is not sustainable,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The Minister also argued that the current fee of $7.7 for the acquisition of a Ghanaian passport was the lowest in the sub-region.<\/p>\n

A comparison showed that Cameroon charges $180, Guinea $57, Guinea-Bissau $65, Burkina Faso $80, and Nigeria $54.29 for passport services.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the new fees as proposed by the Ministry received no objection at the committee level within 21 days, paving the way for them to go into effect.<\/p>\n

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