{"id":1812,"date":"2023-12-16T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T14:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2023-12-16T14:12:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T14:12:54","slug":"passport-application-fee-to-be-increased-from-ghs100cedis-to-ghs644cedis-minister-of-foreign-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/16\/passport-application-fee-to-be-increased-from-ghs100cedis-to-ghs644cedis-minister-of-foreign-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport Application Fee to be increased from GHS100cedis to GHS644cedis- Minister of Foreign Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has made a revelation that seems shocking to most Ghanaians. Thursday 14th December 2023, Shirley said in Parliament, it\u2019s ideal for Ghanaians to pay 644cedis because the 100cedis fee is rather bringing financial loss to the state, and it will be advisable the 100cedis fee is increased to also foster a good economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGhanaians just pay 100cedis for a passport yet to produce one passport booklet which costs 400cedis. That means, every passport that an applicant acquires, the government tops with 300cedis, and this is not sustainable\u201d said Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Per a source sited -\u201cForeign Affairs 2024 budget \u201c Cameroon charges $180, Guinea $57, Guinea-Bissau $65, Burkina Faso $80 and Nigeria $54.29 for passport application fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has made a revelation that seems shocking to most Ghanaians. On the 14th December 2023, Shirley said in Parliament, it\u2019s ideal for Ghanaians to pay 644cedis because the 100cedis fee is rather bringing financial loss to the state, and it will be advisable the 100cedis fee is increased to also foster a good economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}