{"id":331611,"date":"2017-06-26T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331611"},"modified":"2017-06-26T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:36:55","slug":"mubarak-wants-ayorkor-botchwey-summoned-over-us-visa-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331611","title":{"rendered":"Mubarak wants Ayorkor Botchwey summoned over US visa rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu Constituency, Ras Mubarak, is unhappy with the Minister of Foreign Affairs over the United States&#8217; announcement that requires members of Parliament and former presidents on unofficial visits to apply for visas in-person.<\/p>\n<p>Although the US Embassy in Ghana has clarified that the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/24\/protocol-visa-rules-were-already-in-place-us-embassy\/\">rules\u00a0already existed <\/a><\/strong><\/span>and were not new as has been suggested, Ras Mubarak wants the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, hauled before the House to answer some questions.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ae8SCpWuBDlmQL3qwpEMsLVLgZUZgryW&#8221;]The\u00a0MP also wants the US to review such a policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising because we have over glorified them and given them a sense of self-importance about their country. So they feel they can disrespect us anyhow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ras Mubarak further described the US visa arrangement as disrespectful\u201cto Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former presidents won\u2019t queue for visas \u2013 US Embassy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This comes shortly after a <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/26\/former-presidents-wont-queue-for-visas-us-embassy\/\">clarification<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>issued by the Press Attach\u00e9 of the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, corrected indications that protocol arrangements for Ghanaian high-level state officials on personal visits had changed.<\/p>\n<p>Though the U.S. law states that anyone traveling to the U.S. must appear for an in-person interview, it also stated that there are few exceptions in which courtesies may be extended, including that of former presidents and diplomats some courtesies.<\/p>\n<p>The law makes a distinction between travelling on official business and applying for a new visa for personal travel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Joy Notoma\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu Constituency, Ras Mubarak, is unhappy with the Minister of Foreign Affairs over the United States&#8217; announcement that requires members of Parliament and former presidents on unofficial visits to apply for visas in-person. Although the US Embassy in Ghana has clarified that the rules\u00a0already existed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,11],"tags":[3,8630,8631,8632,2698,8633],"class_list":["post-331611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-madam-shirley-ayorkor-botchwey","tag-minister-of-foreign-affairs","tag-protocol-us-visa","tag-ras-mubarak","tag-us-ghana-embassy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331611","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=331611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}