Short term visas

Chris Scott of Four Villages Inn, Kumasi, writes: Tourism in Ghana ranks third in foreign exchange earnings; and yet it is becoming increasingly more difficult for travellers to Ghana  to acquire tourist visas. More and more, there are reports of hassles and delays at Ghanaian embassies and consulates resulting in trip cancellations and loss of …

Online visa application forms

Visas for Ghana - the High Commission in London has just changed over an online application system for visas - see VisaApplication.aspx. The system is outrageously slow - it took an hour to fill in one form.  You also have the option to pay online now.  Print out a copy of the online form, sign and …

Important news re Ghana visas

Thanks to Chloe Grant for alerting me to a new obstacle to obtaining Ghanaian visas. It seems that as of January 2011, several if not all Ghanaian embassies and other consular representatives will now issue visas only to residents of the country in which they are based - for instance, the consular representative in Burkina Faso …