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Ghanaian passports now chip-embedded – Foreign Affairs Ministry

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The chip-embedded passport project, initiated in 2016, will be rolled out through a Build, Operate, and Transfer arrangement with Biometric Travel Solutions Limited, a private Ghanaian firm. This initiative aims to bring Ghana’s passports into full compliance with the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) regulations and rapidly evolving global interoperability standards for biometric identification.

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Passport application fees likely to go up – Foreign Affairs Ministry

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Addressing a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, November 28, he said “Liberia charges $50, we charge $8, meaning we have to subsidize every passport. So the money to buy the printers is used to subsidize the passports… And also, we are thinking of upgrading our passport from biometric to chip-embedded.

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