The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has approved the new prices for passport application processing fees and this took effect Monday, 1 April 2024.
The ministry proposed a review of the current charges for passport applications from GHC 100 to GHC 644 last year.
According to the new charges posted on the passport application website, the expedited application fee for 48 pages is now GHC 800, while the expedited application for 32 pages costs GHC 700.
For standard applications, the 32-page passport now costs GHC 500, and the 48-page passport costs GHC 644.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, who tabled this increment proposal to Parliament last year said “It is time for Ghanaians to pay realistic prices for passports they acquire to travel beginning next year.
She said it is due to financial constraint prevailing in the economy, it had come to a point where it was no longer “sustainable” for the state to continue to subsidise passports.
