Passport application centres to be established in all 16 regions – Ablakwa

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Samuel Okudzato Ablakwa, has announced plans to establish passport application centres in all 16 regions across the country.

This move aims at easing the burden on the existing application centres in Accra.

According to Mr. Ablakwa, decentralising passport application services will make it easier for Ghanaians to access and process their travel documents without necessarily travelling to the capital.

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The minister made this promise while speaking on the floor of Parliament on March 12, 2025.

In his submission, the minister added that while there were no immediate plans to establish passport application centres at the district level, the government is confident that regional offices will be sufficient to meet the needs of citizens.

“Our plan now is to regionalise and make sure we have passport application centres in all 16 regions of Ghana. We do not currently have plans to have district offices.

“We take the view that the reforms we are carrying out—the delivery, the 24-hour operations, reducing the waiting period, and all of that—should suffice once you have regional offices, and the courier service will make sure that your passport is delivered to you wherever you are in the region,” he noted.