{"id":182594,"date":"2024-10-15T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-foreign-affairs-ministry-warns-against-use-of-forged-documents-in-visa-applications\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:28:09","slug":"ghana-foreign-affairs-ministry-warns-against-use-of-forged-documents-in-visa-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-foreign-affairs-ministry-warns-against-use-of-forged-documents-in-visa-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Foreign Affairs Ministry Warns Against Use of Forged Documents in Visa Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has cautioned the public against using forged or falsified documents in the visa application process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In a press statement issued on Monday, the Ministry stated that its attention has been drawn to the fact that some Ghanaian applicants, knowing or unknowingly, present forged or false documents to be authenticated and forwarded for visa processing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">It noted that presenting forged or fake documents is punishable under sections 158, 159, 166,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410150415.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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has cautioned the public against using forged or falsified documents in the visa application process. In a press statement issued on Monday, the Ministry stated that its attention has been drawn to the fact that some Ghanaian applicants, knowing or unknowingly, present forged or false documents to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182595,"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":[6117,258,256,6142,12126,5169,26397,4508,4509,6857,257,254,1956,6853],"class_list":["post-182594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-affairs","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-applications","tag-documents","tag-foreign","tag-forged","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visa","tag-warns"],"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\/182594","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=182594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}