In a groundbreaking move to modernise and streamline passport acquisition in Ghana, Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has led a team to personally deliver newly issued passports to applicants at their homes, marking the official rollout of the country's first-ever nationwide passport home delivery service.

For the first time, Ghanaians can now receive their chip-embedded biometric passports wherever they are, eliminating the stress and delays traditionally associated with collecting passports from Passport Application Centres (PACs).

“It was an amazing experience yesterday joining Ghana Post to deliver our new chip-embedded passports to Ghanaians who applied less than two weeks ago,” Mr. Ablakwa shared on his Facebook wall following the exercise.

“The stress of returning to PACs to pick up passports is no more.”

Over 5,000 passports are expected to be delivered via courier this week across all 16 regions of Ghana, as part of a broader initiative to increase efficiency and accessibility in public service delivery.

The intervention is also aimed at reducing the backlog of uncollected passports, a challenge Mr. Ablakwa inherited when he assumed office.

“Remember I inherited over 70,000 uncollected passports,” he noted. “With this intervention, we have ended the phenomenon of uncollected passports due to frustration and inconvenience.”

The new service is part of a broader digital transformation agenda by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, aimed at resetting and reforming passport service delivery to meet modern standards and the needs of citizens.