RESTRICTIVE PROCEDURES TO BE REMOVED FROM FPZ

Tema, Feb 8, Ghana Immigration Service has streamlined all conditions which were imposed as security checks and considered restrictive, frustrating and time consuming under the free port zone (fpz) programme, Miss Elizabeth Adjei, assistant controller of immigration, disclosed in Tema today. She said under the fpz programme, the service is required to ensure that investors and their families are cleared through immigration formalities with minimum delays and bureaucracy.

Miss Adjei was speaking on "immigration conditions and movement of persons in Ghana: fpz programme" at a seminar organised for officials of the service, customs excise and preventive service (ceps), freight forwarders and shipping agents. She said the long procedure in the renewal of resident permits by are among issues to be reviewed aimed at making immigration regularations easier for investors. Miss Adjei said the service has initiated steps to computerise all its records in order to access information on aliens fairly , easily and avert the cumbersome process of security checks which create delays in the processing of documents.