{"id":178076,"date":"2024-08-07T15:21:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-u-s-embassy-introduces-new-visa-service-provider\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:21:37","slug":"ghana-u-s-embassy-introduces-new-visa-service-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-u-s-embassy-introduces-new-visa-service-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: U.S. Embassy Introduces New Visa Service Provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The United States (US) Embassy in Ghana is to implement significant changes to its visa appointment system as part of efforts to enhance overall efficiency in visa processing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The transition to a new visa service provider, scheduled for August 26, 2024, is in line with a broader update to visa services being rolled out at US embassies in many countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Consul General of the Embassy, Elliot Fertik, told journalists at a briefing on Friday that despite the change in the system, all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408070366.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States (US) Embassy in Ghana is to implement significant changes to its visa appointment system as part of efforts to enhance overall efficiency in visa processing. The transition to a new visa service provider, scheduled for August 26, 2024, is in line with a broader update to visa services being rolled out at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,1946,4508,4509,8519,257,20147,5188,254,2282,1956],"class_list":["post-178076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-embassy","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-introduces","tag-news","tag-provider","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-visa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}