Executive Secretary of the Vice President, Augustine Yaw Blay has reiterated that the National Identification Card (GhanaCard) has met all of the necessities of an digital passport. According to him, this circulate locations Ghana at a vantage factor in ongoing plans toward the global implementation of E-visas.


Government had in advance introduced that it were formally supplied with the certificates to make the Ghana Card an e-passport to be popular at 44,000 airports throughout the globe.

This manner the Ghana Card, that is a completely unique biometric identity card, may be common as an e-passport in 197 borders globally and 44,000 airports withinside the world. 

However, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) clarified that it changed into now no longer its duty to “certify using a country’s identification card for worldwide journey in area of a passport. ” “Any choice to simply accept such opportunity journey identification record is made through the receiving country itself,” ICAO tweeted.

But talking on The Probe on Sunday, Mr Blay defined that the February nine release turned into now no longer to digitalise visas however to instead cause the wanted infrastructure to without problems transition into the E-Visa plans as soon as it's far released with the aid of using ICAO withinside the close to future. “The GhanaCard has a chip, our passport these days doesn’t have the chip so it doesn’t qualify as an e-passport.

So GhanaCard because it stands has the E-passport embedded in it.“And on February nine, 2022, ICAO stated the chip that we've got in our GhanaCard has met the same old for e-passport. So you could keep records on it, they've examined it and verified it,” he informed Emefa Apawu.For now, the cardboard will permit card-bearing Ghanaians to go into the u . s . a .from internationally with out always displaying the e-book model of the passport.

“The Ghana Airport Company Limited, due to ICAO now agreeing and approving our card as an e-passport complaint, now they have got [GACL] issued out statements to a lot of these airline corporations and airport announcing that humans can now come to Ghana with the GhanaCard. 

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