Visa applicants to South Africa must have a biometric passport before their application can be considered, the South Africa High Commission in Ghana has indicated.<\/p>\n
This was contained in a statement issued by the Commission after Citi News<\/strong> reported on Thursday that some travelers to South Africa had been turned away because they were using manual passports.<\/p>\n \u201cThe South Africa High Commission wish to inform all visa applicants that effective 24 November 2015, applicants using machine readable passports and handwritten passport MUST acquire Biometric Passports before a visa will be granted,\u201dthe statement posted on its website indicated.<\/p>\n The Commission therefore advised applicants to acquire the biometric passports before submitting their applications.<\/p>\n The decision nullifies government’s\u00a0position that non-Biometric passports are as valid as biometric passports.<\/p>\n Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry is yet to respond to the development.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visa applicants to South Africa must have a biometric passport before their application can be considered, the South Africa High Commission in Ghana has indicated. This was contained in a statement issued by the Commission after Citi News reported on Thursday that some travelers to South Africa had been turned away because they were using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":171894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-171892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}