Ghana’s passport system is getting a high-tech makeover, promising faster service, stronger security, and even job creation.
Under the newly introduced Reset Chip-Embedded Passport Reforms, Ghanaians can now expect their passports to be delivered within 15 days at no extra cost.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, in a recent post on his X page on Sunday, April 27, 2025, as sighted by GhanaWeb Business, outlined a series of major reforms introduced under Ghana’s new chip-embedded passport system, highlighting improved efficiency, enhanced security, and cost-saving benefits for Ghanaians.
According to him, the reforms aim to transform the country’s passport application and delivery process.
Read below the seven interesting facts about Ghana’s Reset Chip-Embedded Passport Reforms:
• You won’t be charged extra for the courier delivery of your chip-embedded passport.
• Passport officials will be sanctioned if they fail to ensure that your passport is delivered within 15 days.
• Ghana Post is the lead courier service provider. Its nationwide presence will allow Ghanaians with address challenges to pick up their chip-embedded passports at the nearest Ghana Post office.
• The 24-Hour Passport Operations and Courier Services will create more jobs.
• All these reforms are being implemented under reduced passport application fees.
• The cost of these reforms is being covered by the reduced passport application fees under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement, so the Ghanaian taxpayer has not been burdened with any additional contracts.
• The new security-enhanced chip-embedded passports will make Ghana compliant with requirements from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which states that our current passports will be obsolete by 2030.
