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Welcome to the Consular Section of the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Ghana in the HKSAR. This section provides general information on the range of consular-related services that Ghanaian nationals and foreigners would enjoy at our office. These services include processing of Ghanaian passports and visas, authentication of documents and other welfare support.
Guidance Note on Passport Application at the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Ghana
FAQs Passport Application Services
Applicants, guarantors and witnesses are to note that the making of a false statement for the purpose of procuring a passport is an offense under section 15 of the Passport and Travel Certificates Decree, 1967 (NLCD 155) of the Republic of Ghana. Where it is not possible to prosecute such persons in a criminal court because they live outside Ghana, such persons shall be disqualified from holding or acquiring a Ghanaian passport, and any passport already issued to them shall be withdrawn and confiscated. They may also be arrested and dealt with under Ghana’s law any time they attempt to enter Ghana.
Tuesday and Thursday 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. (by appointment only)
All applications must be presented personally by the applicants. Applicants under 18 years of age must be accompanied by at least one parent or guardian. Please note that applicants will be interviewed. Consequently, applications for passports made through agents or through the post will not be accepted.
Under current law, applicants must be Ghanaian nationals, and evidence of Ghanaian citizenship will be required in the form of an expired passport, Ghanaian birth certificate etc. Applicants holding only Ghanaian birth certificates will be required to submit some other proof of identity such as school certificate, driver’s license, employment/student/other ID cards, or bachelor certificates to confirm that he or she is the person whose name and details appear on the birth certificate.
Please note that there is no procedure for applicants who were born in Ghana and claim to have travelled to China or any other country without their Ghana passports. The normal process would be for such applicants to return to Ghana to apply for Ghana passports from the Director of Passports, Accra. It is also against the laws of the Republic of Ghana and the People’s Republic of China and indeed international law to travel on another person’s Ghanaian or any other nations’ passport.
It is not permitted by law for Ghanaians resident outside Ghana to instruct friends and relatives to acquire Ghana passports in Ghana on their behalf and either secretly carry the passports to them in China or send it to them by post. Any proxy passport that comes into the possession of this Honorary Consulate shall immediately be confiscated and a replacement passport will only be issued to the bearer after exhaustive investigations and with the approval of the Director of Passports in Accra.
Newly issued passports should be collected personally by the applicants. The applicant will be required to fill in and sign the appropriate column of the passport collection book, and also append his or her signature in the passport in the presence of the Head of the Consular Section before the passport will be released to him/her.