Ghana Visa Hassle-Nothing compared to the DUtch
[QUOTE=Satyr9]I don't know if my tale of woe is a result of the fact that I am already a citizen of a primitive, backward banana republic (Israel) seeking entry into a second, but the Ghanaian embassy here is making me jump through hoops to get a visa.
First: just having the name of the fancy hotel that GC recommended is not enough - they want a copy of the email reservation. Strike 1.
Second: just having the name and contact info of a Ghanaian national or resident is not enough - they want a "letter of invitation" from this person.
So after palavering with the under-butt munch in his office for a while and going around in circles for twenty minutes (me: "But none of this was written on your website" and him: "Ah yes, thank you for calling this to my attention; we will be sure to change the website"), he tells me to ask the Gifty I have used as a reference to send me an email invitation which I can forward on to him.
I don't know whether he was angling for a bribe or just trying to set back the last few hundred thousand years of frontal lobe evolution with his immoveable insistence that "all of this is for your safety," but my visa seems to be dangling on the thread of Gifty's ability to send me the requisite email in requisite English.
My point: there is at least one Ghanaian embassy in the world where getting a tourist visa is not as straightforward as has been portrayed on this board.
And if there is one, there are probably others.
S[/QUOTE]This is nothing. If you want a Dutch visa, not only do you have to get a letter of invitation, the letter of invitation has to be attested by the Town Hall of the city where the person inviting you lives. So don't be disheartened, your Ghanian friend is just aping the west. No pun intended.