Why the US reduced validity of Ghanaian visas from 5 years to 3 months – Government explains

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  • DEAD GOAT MAHALIAR IS BACK 5 months ago

    Incompetent baby’s with sharp teeth as ministers. What did we do wrong as a country to deserve this torture?! Ghana is doomed under NDC.

  • Vanchasse 5 months ago

    Is the U.S. your home country that you can't be comfortable with someone's own decision about his country that you have to referred to it as torture?

  • BRANCO 5 months ago

    an NPP fool identified. This how they lost the 2024 elections with a record low. Ghanaians can go to the US Embassy website and other credible sources to know the reality so let them continue fooling.

  • TRUTH 5 months ago

    IT IS OKAY, THEY CAN TAKE IT ALL.

    LET'S DO BUSINESS ELSEWHERE UNTIL BIG SAM COMES TO HIS SENSES.

    GHANA IS LOVELY COUNTRY AND WE LOVE HER DEARLY.

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 5 months ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine....for instance 10 paracetamol at once.....or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • Errortorial Commission of Ghana -EC 5 months ago

    We all love Okudzeto with his fight against corruption but honestly he must tone down as a diplomat! It doesn't help to use strong language when our economy is at the mercy of IMF and the world bank and we are always cup in h ...
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  • Errortorial Commission of Ghana -EC 5 months ago

    AND HE MUST KNOW CHINA IS NOT OUR FRIEND! We have built a very great partnership with the US for years, and that must be nurtured continuously!!

  • Kwame 5 months ago

    Donald Trump does not care a hoot about your so called partnership with the US. So far DT sees Ghana as another "Shit" African country. Let's ignore the US and build our country with pride.

  • Karikakchar 5 months ago

    We have only one problem, we don't have smart people leading the negotiations. Just giving the explanation without mentioning steps taken to address the situation is a clear show of the daft Ablakwa and arrogant Ofosu Kwakye ...
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  • God’s Own Country turned into a shithole country. 5 months ago

    Vanchasse, direct your question to Sharpteeth Foreign Minister. When he was sending his heavily pregnant wife to deliver his children in the USA on each occasion, was he American? Wasn’t Ghana a sovereign country? By the ...
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  • C.q 5 months ago

    Eeish!!! That’s a low blow.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 5 months ago

    Hahahaha. Sometimes, some people like Okudzeto deserves low blows. ABOA like him. Besides Politics, in what working sphere has he worked in life. His Teeth just looks like that of an Alligator.

  • Allow Ablakwa small...he's unrefined from birth 5 months ago

    In politics any low IQ nonentity can reach the highest level merely due to competence in lies

  • NDC HAS SOLD GHANA TO THE IGBOS 5 months ago

    GHANA IS NOW BEING COLONIZED BY THE IGBOS AND HOW DO YOU EXPECT AMERICANS TO GIVE GHANA VISAS. THE IGBO KING IN PRAMPRAM HAS TAKEN OVER THE CONTROL OF GHANA CALLING HIMSELF KING OF GHANA. MAHAMA IS ONE OF HIS SUBJECTS AND ABL ...
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  • One 5 months ago

    The lame arse Airbus president stays drunk! He has no idea about what’s going on

  • Nkwa Kwame 5 months ago

    Where is the torture in this US policy. The US is saying that data indicates that Ghanaians are refusing to come back home to Ghana after schooling and visits. Is this too a problem. Dishonesty is destroying us.

  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 5 months ago

    its kong overdue. many overstay their visas. many stay and dont return. many go there and even engage in illicit activities. ai and robotics is tkaing over jobs. people are losing jobs over there in the west. very soon, these ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 5 months ago

    im from canada. i had a partial scholarship for grad school in america. i went there, studied and returned. most gh ppl dont even return after their studies. stay and develop gh

  • ankoma 5 months ago

    Canadian citizen , u have no clue what it is to get a Visa as a student to America !!The America embassy in Ghana is the reason most of the students and those on tourist visa do not return. The embassy wants you to show them ...
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  • mmd 5 months ago

    It's not only the issue students overstaying their visas, but the criminal behaviour of some Ghanaians, particularly some tribes. They get the opportynity and instead of engaging in meaningful employment venture, the rather ...
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  • SETBACK MENTALITY 5 months ago

    Which Particular Tribe..?...You people will turn every thing into Politics and Tribalism...haaba....

  • MAKOLA no 2 MARKET! 5 months ago

    YOU LIE

    STOP THIS STUPID INCOMPETENT LIES, THEY CANCELLED IT BCOS OF THE STUPIDITY OF THIS MAHAMLIAR GOVERNMENT...
    EXPLAIN::: RECIPROCAL?

    HORRIBLE SCAMMERS IN POWER....

    JULOR MAHAMLIAR GOVERNMENT NOTHING BETTER S ...
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  • Joshua 5 months ago

    FBI came and grabbed the anus of a certain tribesman from Ghana to U.S jail straight. The primitive bastards murdering their wives and engaging in drug trades and scam in the U.S are well known. Shame on them

  • Joe 5 months ago

    Why must we fight ourselves instead of fighting the ones who have taken advantage of us for centuries and dumped us wherever they wanted? They only use us when it's convenient to them. It is time we stand tall among nations a ...
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  • Pelicles. 5 months ago

    Thank you, "Sir". We have few people with your patriotic mindset. Some people think that the West is heaven and who made it heaven other than themselves, and can't we do the same in our small country endowed with everything n ...
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  • KK 5 months ago

    Good advice. Joe

  • Aluta 5 months ago

    Great submission, Pelicles! I agree with you and Joe on this item. We have had that subservient attitude and think we can only make it if we go somewhere else. But once again, the massive corruption in out governments have dr ...
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  • Truth 5 months ago

    I think you made the common mistake of confusing the United States of America with the same countries that colonized the 13 Colonies and the southern portions of the state. Point your finger at the countries that built the sl ...
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  • Jay 5 months ago

    Let's all agree that this is nothing to do with the baby with sharp teeth but the fact that this is now a policy that needs to be executed. There's no way that this is just a Ghana issue but a US decision. Totally unfair to p ...
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  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 5 months ago

    @Jay:

    WARNING!
    JOHN MAHAMA SHOULD RESHUFFLE ABLAKWA: THE POLITICAL NOVICE FROM THAT POSITION BEFORE GHANA’S IMAGE IS COMPLETELY DAMAGED DIPLOMATICALLY!


    Who told you Ablakwa’s arrogance didn’t play a part i ...
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  • BRANCO 5 months ago

    Bawumia, the greatest liar still wants to be Prez. The man who took inflation to 54% after locking up the dollar and giving IGP the keys. Exchange rate went as far as 17 cedis.Destroyed the economy rated junk. And his sad and ...
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  • Atsu 5 months ago

    Who ever gave birth to this ugly liar has done a great de service to Ghana.Only in the NDC you can have such a as government spokesperson

  • Peter 5 months ago

    Haven't these NPP idiots heard that the Trump Administration is practically banning international students from attending Harvard?

  • Truth 5 months ago

    Feel free to encourage people to apply to Harvard's campus in South Africa.

  • Joe 5 months ago

    What is our government going to do about this in retaliation? We must also his them where it hurts and where they are also taking advantage on us. We must NOT let this to just slide. Wake up people those people only hit you a ...
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  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 5 months ago

    @ Joe:
    What can the vulnerable ant do to hurt the Lion? Are you okay upstairs? What can Ghana possibly do to hurt the US? Even great nations around the globe are now cowered into submission.

  • Joe 5 months ago

    @ fake Stephen donkor
    You apparently seem to be clueless of how geo- political landscape works. Ghana has African continental leverage at its disposable. No African nation is an ant since the economies of those "lions" depe ...
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  • Joe 5 months ago

    You are living within a " fat cat" that's just about to implode.

  • Scammer Mahama the Gonja mafia. 5 months ago

    Mahama can own and operate mines in Ghana but Okyere or Owusu cannot do same.

    Is Gonja mafia John Mahama practising nepotism and tribal bigotry?

  • He has given the whole black Volta reserve to his Broda Ibrahim to mine. 5 months ago

    That man is a full time tribalist greedy bastard. This is why I don’t respect any Akan who supports this evil tribalist man John Mahama.

  • Vanchasse 5 months ago

    When people needed medical supports in this country, how many Akans showed up?

  • Yoo 5 months ago

    Okudjeto Ablakwa is part of the problem. His wife went to the US on two different occasions when she was heavily pregnant to deliver their two children there. Ablakwa is a crook. I wonder how he is made a Foreign Minister.

  • Kwaku Tee 5 months ago

    His wife had all their three (3) children in the USA ,a criminal act on the part of a minister. Ablakwa Okudjeto could have even used the children to gain American citizenship if the law had not changed.

  • Truth 5 months ago

    I for one am thrilled America is ending its birthright citizenship. I pray it revokes the citizenship of every Chinese child born to a visiting mother. They had baby mills in SoCal when I lived there for 20-years. They would ...
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  • Kk 5 months ago

    When Ghanaians talked about Ablajwa,s arrogance ppl jumps to his defence, the man who probated against the Ghana national cathedral and hailed as a saint has now plunged Ghanaian citizens who travels into the USA for school a ...
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  • Joshua 5 months ago

    @ Kk. You NPP idiots can hate Ablakwa all you like. Was your Chimpanzee short ugly fool Akufo Monkey Addo not fornicating with Serwa Broni in the sky? Your double identity crook Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng, the disgraced fool ...
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  • Joshua the retarded NDC buffon. 5 months ago

    @Joshua indeed to see an NDC supporter with sense na connection

  • You don’t make sense 5 months ago

    You don’t make sense

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 5 months ago

    @ Joshua: HOW DID YOU GET THAT NAME?

    Despite all your stupid castigations, Ghana had a very good relationship with the United States under President Akuffo-Addo. Shame on you!

  • Bazz 5 months ago

    I wish for total ban. We need every Ghanaian to be patriotic and more focus on rebuilding our own country to the level America cannot boast and treat us like shit again. The brain drain is too much

  • Baafour 5 months ago

    This NDC government can lie, surprisingly most of them are Christians.

  • Vanchasse 5 months ago

    So other Africa countries suffering the same faith made the same comment as Ablakwa right? Why is Ghanaians always politicizing everything? Are we ok at all? Why cant we understand that U.S. was also a small country that went ...
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  • The world leaders knows NDC isn’t the right party for Ghana 5 months ago

    The world knows the evil corrupt NDC party. Trump is a smart man and he doesn’t want to deal with these good for nothing political party made up of fake doctors and PHD holders. Only fools takes NDC serious.

  • Stomach fuul 5 months ago

    Shameful liars. You take Ghanaians for granted

  • 123 5 months ago

    Ablakwa is the cause. Pick your fight well

  • WISDOM 5 months ago

    AND WHO IN HIS RIGHT MIND WILL EVER THINK THAT A GHANAIAN WILL WILLINGLY RETURN TO GHANA UPON ENTRY INTO USA EUROPE ASIA AUSTRALIA CANADA?
    Government Spokesperson needs reset to his thinking as:
    1.The hefty monthly paycheq ...
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  • Lance 5 months ago

    Npp members wish doom for Ghana because they are no more in office. So they would wish Ghana all the doom there is.

  • Gaskia 5 months ago

    Who is more likely to overstay: the one who has a 5 yr multiple visa and can go and come many times freely, or the one who knows he may not get another visa to go back easily? I can't think far.

  • zk 5 months ago

    the 5 years is most likely ofcourse,do you think youre smarter than their immmigration officers on this matter,I bet youve never traveled abroad to understand why

  • Truth 5 months ago

    Q: Who is more likely to develop a network to pull off million-dollar scams?

    A: The person with the 5-year visa.

    Unlike you, I think quite far. You are welcome.

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 5 months ago

    WARNING!
    JOHN MAHAMA SHOULD RESHUFFLE ABLAKWA: THE POLITICAL NOVICE FROM THAT POSITION BEFORE GHANA’S IMAGE IS COMPLETELY DAMAGED DIPLOMATICALLY!


    Who told you Ablakwa’s arrogance didn’t play a part in this see ...
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  • Kwame CTX 5 months ago

    Generally agree with your analysis though doubt your conclusion. Just one point of clarity. I remember that the 'shithole countries' comment was in context of Haiti. For some reason, African and many other countries took offe ...
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  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 5 months ago

    @Kwame CTX.

    Read the excerpts of the conversation that brought about the “Shithole comment” in 2018. This is from AP.

    “Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’ s No. 2 Democrat, explained that as part of that deal ...
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  • Ghanaweb 5 months ago

    Stop lying clueless gov't

  • Abaqua 5 months ago

    Write your comment; Ablakwa u see ur stupid shame. too know, the evil u did will follow u. foolish fool, take a mirror, look at ur teeth n mouth like serpent.shame, felix thank u.

  • Thewho 5 months ago

    Do same and retaliate. Ghanaians are happy being and managing. Ghanaians can study as well in India, China ,Russia, Turkey etc.Retaliate and all those Americans who overstayed get deported exclusive to the blacks who are home

  • Truth 5 months ago

    The biggest difference is that Americans who overstay usually invest in Ghana and also spend lots of money here. Kick us out and wave goodbye to our money, which we will take elsewhere.

    I'm on my fourth country and can not ...
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  • Co2 5 months ago

    Incompetent chronic Lairs they call themselves ministers of state, Ghana is cheap

  • Sul 5 months ago

    THEY CAN EVEN REDUCE IT TO 3 HOURS AND THEIR STUPIDITY

  • BRANCO 5 months ago

    So people take these micros serious? Even when they go for a loan and it is being paid in tranches, they will say NDC contracted the loan in 2023. Are these people correct? Have they not read the official reason from the USA ...
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  • Akos 5 months ago

    If we don't build ourselves as a country we will always be treated this way and crying over visa .

  • Koffio 5 months ago

    I don't understand why Ghanaian feel so entitled to some other country's Visa duration and requirements when Ghana only issue 60-day visas at a time... America has the right to even issue only 30-day Visas. what is all the no ...
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  • Truth 5 months ago

    They gave us a 90-day visa every time. Ninety, not sixty.

  • Christine 5 months ago

    Are we going to reciprocate?
    Are we going to deport the Americans, Europeans, Asians...who have iverstayed.... who come here to live just like that. Can we go there and that.
    Aftet nearly 70 years of independence , a large ...
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  • Stop extradition treaty with the US 5 months ago

    No more extradition treaties with the US. Close military base in Ghana.

  • Bro kwesi 5 months ago

    Ablakwa cause am.Stop defending.

  • Joy 5 months ago

    Why do we always think as an independent state with weak economic standards. Ghanaians must quit from corruption to make our land great and strong

  • MyBigMouth 5 months ago

    So why don't they apply the restriction to students only. What's the point in making such a sweeping directive, when they know the source of the problem?

  • Papa 5 months ago

    And this Okatakyie is there spewing rubbish and some believe him. If you are among those who believe him, I feel sorry for you.

  • WISDOM 5 months ago

    Children of Mahama have Arabic Muslim names and he says he is a Christian o o ! Ha ha ha a

  • NDC 5 months ago

    Nkwaseafo)!!!¡

  • God’s Own Country turned into a shithole country. 5 months ago

    Let’s enjoy our sovereignty!

  • Good Mama 5 months ago

    You go explain taya

  • Pelicles. 5 months ago

    Can't we live without going to the US?

  • Ghanaba kwaku 5 months ago

    We over stay because our leaders(politicians)here are wicked and don't think of Ghana. They only loot and share among themselves.

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  • Christine 5 months ago

    When the President of Liberia addresses Donaldus Trumpepotomus as Sir... you can see why we feel that we can be trampled upon. I mean ....really.. I was flabbergasted...rise up Africa PLEASE

  • Truth 5 months ago

    English is also Ghana's national language, so why I am always pleased to run into someone here that speaks and understands it fluently?

    Have you ever been to Liberia? Did you know they speak English? I bet few Ghanaians kn ...
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  • SA 5 months ago

    The main steps is to reduce corruption by ministers, family and friends, and not to give away our minerals for peanuts, 10% - 17%, that is crazy, we have crazy and corrupt leaders since independence.

  • Kofi Osei 5 months ago

    Dr. Kramer Nkrumah was not corrupt. But Ghanaians ganged up with this same USA. CIA to overthrow him.

  • Dr. Nana 5 months ago

    Why can’t Ghanaians see this as a blessing in its own right. When you don’t travel to America, the rest of the world opens up their arms to receive you. Asian countries are now the real world builders and they don’t dis ...
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  • Kwame Peter 5 months ago

    The President must do the needful and sack Ablakwa immediately for being not fit for purpose, This boy was impeached by his peers as NUGS President,his final results was withheld by UG authorities for serious acts of impropri ...
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  • Paa Rasta. 5 months ago

    USA IS THE PLACE WHERE 90% OF THE ELITE GHANAIANS LOVE TO VISIT OR SEND THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL. NOT RUSSIA, CUBA OR CHINA. IT BEATS ME WHY WE TRY TO PISS THEM OFF. WHO APPOINTED THIS BABY WITH SHARP TEETH AS THE F ...
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  • Abaqua 5 months ago

    Write your comment; Ablakwa, have u seen the most stupid u have cause our children the youth to travel. idiot fool.

  • T.T 5 months ago

    The foreign minister still acts like he is a student leader.I personally don't think he is qualified for such a sensitive position.

  • ural 5 months ago

    Nkwaseaema, what at all is in the USA ,bogas from there are as poor as church mouse, a time for Ghana to to give little attention to uncle sam...
    China has everything, go to China..

    My comment only fools should type in ...
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  • ABREWA 5 months ago

    Why send this infantile , inexperienced. Photocopy messenger to such a
    very sensitive Ministry.
    He has already caused a mess and is still doing so.
    Please remove Ablakwa and keep him in your office.

  • Nkm 5 months ago

    Look at his and head like one bag of cement

  • Nkm 5 months ago

    Look at his face and head like one bag of cement

  • Kojo 5 months ago

    Nonsense who cares? Most pple have even changed their holiday destination from the US. Who really cares. Twea kae

  • world 5 months ago

    ghanaians deserve it right if you train your child to be disrespsctful,one day you get embarassement and shame.you voted for babies with sharp teeths,arrogance,propagandas and liars this is what you will get you never sees it ...
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  • -GHANANI 5 months ago

    I wish we have no American embasy in Ghana. All American embasies are dens for subversion and intrigues against the host nations. What is American visa to me? Will it take me to heaven? Bullshit!!!

  • SAMUEL MFUM TAKORADI 5 months ago

    What Fosu Kwákye is saying doesn’t make sense Tell the real truth

  • Nana 5 months ago

    Look at their faces! These are the faces that are sending Ghana to the brink of collapse.

  • joe mensah 5 months ago

    Now you can eat your gold and enjoy the cedis in Ghana.

  • Sharp teeth babies 5 months ago

    Identical liers

  • Babies with Sharp teeth 5 months ago

    What we need to talk about is; when was the first time the US detected that Ghanaians overstay their visas? Is it only in 2025, or this has always been the case? If this has always been the case, why the visa restrictions now ...
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  • Fools with short memory will vote the ndc. 5 months ago

    All because of this rude and very arrogant sebɔ glass fiafitɔ okuwhateverdzeto ablakwa.kwasea kwa.And some very primitive and dumb ghanaians with bitterness and hatred are not seeing what this gonja mafia mahama and his bab ...
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  • Kudos to Dariga Mahama for this humiliation 5 months ago

    Ghanaians haven't seen anything yet.

  • GHANA NO WONDER GOOGLE STATED INCLUDE GHANA AS A TOP TEN AFRICA COUNTRY WITH LOWEST IQ 5 months ago

    Because Ghana is entertaining Nigerians and allowing them to fool in Ghana. Everyday kidnapping, killing and armed robbery. Nigerians have destroyed their country and they have come to destroy Ghana as well so that we will al ...
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  • GHPP 5 months ago

    THIS INCOMPETENT PEOPLE WILL DESTROY THE COUNTRY, GH PP

  • The Great 5 months ago

    Mr. Kwakye , this is a lie. This policy will NOT last for only two months. It depends on how the government of Ghana and Ghanaian US visa holders obeys the new visa directives.