There are many mandatory and optional paper and other requirements when applying for a Ghana visa. However, there is this one mandatory requirement without the provision of which an applicant’s application will not be accepted by the Ghana consular office for processing.
This component that I personally find very incomprehensible, if not ridiculous, excuse my french, to accept, is the obligation for a native Ghanaian naturalised as say, American, British, French, Canadian, German, etc., to submit a proof of invitation by their host before their application can be accepted for processing.
Why should a native-born Ghanaian be obliged to be invited, proven by a signed typewritten letter by their host, before they can be accepted to visit their country of birth where they happen to have their wife, husband, children or extended family members, and on top, their movable and immovable properties? Does this not sound baffling?
Why should they need a host at all, let alone, a written letter by the host, before such a Ghanaian can visit Ghana on holiday or for relocation? Why and why and how, I cannot get my head around it?
In some of these instances, such applicants may have uploaded their Ghana card and their application submitted along with their foreign passport. Is their Ghana card not a sufficient proof of their origin or roots as a pure Ghanaian, where in their foreign passport their origin has been stated or confirmed as Ghanaian? If it does, why this mandatory requirement for a host and their signed typewritten invitation letter before a native Ghanaian naturalised as a foreigner can be granted a Ghana visa to visit their home country?
What, if the applicant in this case has no one to invite them but they have their own house(s) in Ghana to go to?
Would the Foreign Minister and his outfit please sort this problem, or give better explanation and clarifications to set at peace the currently unsettled mind of the writer triggered by the mandatory submission of a signed typewritten letter as explained above?
