The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged all passport applicants who paid before April 1, 2024 but have not yet completed their biometric details to visit their designated Passport Application Centres (PACs) and complete the procedure as soon as possible.
The Ministry announced that passport applications submitted with the old fees of GH¢100.00 and GH¢150.00 will no longer be valid after October 18, 2024, if biometric details are not recorded.
Applicants are asked to act quickly to guarantee that their applications are genuine.
On April 1, 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised passport processing prices. The increased charges for expedited passport booklets are GH¢800 for 48 pages and GH¢700 for 32 pages. For ordinary applications, the 32-page booklet costs GH¢500, while the 48-page booklet costs GH¢644.
In 2023, the Ministry had proposed a review of the old charges, which ranged from GH¢100 to GH¢644 for passport applications. Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey explained in Parliament last year that the state could no longer sustain the subsidies on passport production, necessitating the price adjustments.
“Ghanaians pay just about GH¢100 for a passport, yet to produce one passport booklet costs GH¢400, meaning the government has to subsidize GH¢300 per passport, and this is not sustainable,” she stated.