{"id":223701,"date":"2026-02-13T12:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-paog-sets-february-16-deadline-for-submission-of-passports\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:47:52","slug":"ghana-paog-sets-february-16-deadline-for-submission-of-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-paog-sets-february-16-deadline-for-submission-of-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Paog Sets February 16 Deadline for Submission of Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">THE Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG) has set February 16, 2026, as the final deadline for the submission of Ghanaian passports by all prospective Hajj pilgrims for onward processing to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for visa issuance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The directive affects all prospective pilgrims who have completed payment for the 2026 Hajj, including those who paid through agents, paid directly, or are being processed under any special arrangements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">A press statement issued in Accra yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130292.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 Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG) has set February 16, 2026, as the final deadline for the submission of Ghanaian passports by all prospective Hajj pilgrims for onward processing to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for visa issuance. The directive affects all prospective pilgrims who have completed payment for the 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,9451,5742,4508,4509,257,53648,17895,7123,254,11989],"class_list":["post-223701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deadline","tag-february","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-paog","tag-passports","tag-sets","tag-south-africa-today","tag-submission"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/223701","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=223701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}