INTERIOR MEET'S THE PRESS

The Minister for the Interior, Hon. Mark O. Woyongo  has reiterated the call for the Ghana Immigration Service[ GIS] personnel to bear arms  due to the increase in cross – border crime which include transportation of illicit drugs  and  light weapon to neighboring countries. Read more....

The Ghana Immigration Service board has embarked on a three day working visit to the Volta region to familiarize itself with border activities, know the terrain and the realties on the ground, and the operational challenges of officers.Read more....

The Lebanese Embassy in collaboration with the Lebanese Community in Ghana have presented scholarship package to ten tertiary students and thirteen awards to the wards of Martyr Officers from the Ghana Immigration, Police and Prisons Services.The award is part of their corporate social responsibility [CSR] to give back to the society in the area of education. It is also aimed at supporting the wards Read More.................

The Director of Ghana Immigration Service,(GIS) COP (Dr.) Peter A. Wiredu, has cut the sword for the construction of a Migration Consultation Centre [MCC] at Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region.The MCC which is aimedat empowering prospective migrants to travel in a legal, voluntary, orderly and protected wayis part of a larger information campaign to promote safe and legal migration under the European Union funded Ghana Read More..................

The Director of Immigration, COP [Dr.] Peter A. Wiredu has highly commended the European Union [EU] for their initiative to establish a Migration Consultation Center [MCC] at Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region. The Center is expected to be an information hub to provide migration information to prospective migrants in the region and beyond as part of measures being put in place to reduce irregular migration in that area. Read More ..............

The Director of Ghana Immigration Service, (GIS), COP (Dr.) Peter A. Wiredu, has disclosed that the Service is in the final stage of drafting the first ever Service Regulations, a Training Curriculum and Syllabus as well as a Human Resource Policy.
Other policies such as Transport Policy, Accommodation Policy, and Funeral Policy are at the completion stages whilst GIS establishment, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Deployment Plan are already being implemented. Read More....

The Minister for the Interior, Hon Mark Owen Woyongo, has announced that Ghana is in the process of finalizing its first ever national migration policy to facilitate and guide the management of Ghana’s internal and international migratory flows.At the first interaction and orientation meeting of the GIS Board with the Management and Regional Commanders in Accra, the Minister said the policy when it is finalised would enhance national Read More....

The Ghana Immigration Service wishes to bring to the attention of the general public that it has observed a worrying migration trend between the months of September 2014 and January 2015.Statistics gathered over the period shows an unusually high number of young Ghanaian ladies travelling to the Gulf States, namely; Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. Our investigations reveal that some local Agencies are operating as recruitment. Read More....

The Ghana Immigration Service [GIS] wishes to inform the general public, educational Institutions as well as foreign students in Ghana that the Student Permit Processing Desk has been moved from the GIS Headquarters to the Greater Accra Regional Immigration Office behind the Ministry of the Interior building and adjacent the Ministry of Health, Accra.Read More........

It has come to the attention of the Ghana Immigration Service that a certain audio recording is being circulated on social media to the effect that Customs and Immigration officials at the Kotoka International Airport are in dubious collaboration with some criminals to whom they relay personal information provided on Embarkation and Disembarkation cards by passengers. Read More.......