The minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced that the visa restrictions which was imposed on Ghana by the USA some months back has been reversed following some major diplomatic engagement with the USA authorities.
He wrote on his facebook page;
Ghanaians can now be eligible for five-year multiple entry visas and other enhanced consular privileges.
This good news was directly communicated to me by US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Allison Hooker at a bilateral meeting earlier today, in the margins of the UN General Assembly.
I am really pleased that months of high-level diplomatic negotiations has led to a successful outcome.
It will be recalled that the US imposed visa restrictions on Ghana and other countries in July this year. The affected countries were slapped with a maximum three-month single entry visas and other limitations. In the specific case of Ghana, the Trump Administration said they were reacting to many years of visa overstays mainly by students.
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This sends a lot of relief to many concern Ghanaians who thought that our diplomatic relations with the USA was almost hitting the rock.
