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You Are Here: Home » General News » Ghanaians to get biometric passports in 2010
Ghana will from April next year issue its citizens with biometric passports, the acting Director, Legal and Consular Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, McArios Akanbeanab Akanbong, has disclosed.
This is to enable the country to meet the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) deadline for member states to provide their nationals with such a document to avoid being denied entry into member countries of ICAO.
A biometric passport is the most modern travelling document which has features like electronic chip into which has been processed, the thumbprint of holders and kept at a biometric Centre soon to be established in Accra.
Mr. Akanbong said without a biometric passport, Ghanaians travelling outside risked being denied entry as their data would not be at the Biometric Centre for immigration officers at international airports to crosscheck their details.
To decentralise and fast track the process of acquisition, biometric centres will be established in Tamale, Kumasi, Ho and Takoradi where people could walk in and have their photographs and thumbprints taken together with other personal details for data purposes and later issued with the passports.
Benefits to be derived from the new passports, according to Mr Akanbong, would include elimination of middlemen in the application and acquisition of passports and the avoidance of situations where individuals manipulate the system and acquire multi-passports.
“No middleman can acquire a biometric passport for anyone because with this system, the applicant has to be available for his or her thumbprint to be taken for data and identification purposes before the passport is issued,” he said.
Mr Akanbong said in view of the change the next batch of Diplomatic Passports to be issued to government officials this September will be biometric.
Such passports are issued to government officials on official business abroad and their spouses, heads and staff of Ghana’s missions as well as heads of government delegations attending conferences on behalf of the state and others.
Mr Akanbong said biometric passports would make it easier to track criminals and other miscreants because their data at the biometric centre would help identify them.
Source: Ghanaian Times
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Is about time Ghana passport have a biometrix passport in place and to be more accountable to our citizens. If Ghana has 23 million population they country should be managerable inyerms of taxes, economics, issues of social insurance or identification cards and national health card.
If the country is not micromanage now it will be very difficult to micro manager when the country is 30 or 40 million in population size.
We and the government have to quickly follow the technology trent very quickly and causually without any delays to enable the country to get far ahead of time.
if that’s be the case,what about those using passport booklet,
with they go for renewal of it?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
in actual fact, it will be good for ghanaians to undertake in this development because it will enable them to be welcome in any international airport
i just to know, how long will it take for to obtain this so called biometrix passport?
what about if some one want to travell to south africa for the world cup, how fast will they process this passport for him?
so now it good we going to use this passport ………now my mind is i dont have the old passport so i want the direction on how to obtain this boimetric passport …please help me out…………….
i dont have the old passport but i want to travel next year so where can i go in Accra to get my self this new passport
these biometric centres should start operation at the same time,there should not be a situation where Accra centre starts for some years before Kumasi and other cities,there should be fairness
Does the BIOMETRIC PASSPORT has disadvantages?
Please i want to know the requairement i will need to apply for one. And i have apply for the old last year and still not in i dont wether it will come can i continue with the bomatric i want an answere please
if you dont have any ID and you want to do this new passport,how will i do it.can i go to the death and birth office without an ID card to do the birth certificate?
does the biometric passport expires? i bought and filled the forms i May but not yet submitted.
i mean i bought the forms in May 2010