The acquisition of visa is the most important yet most troublesome hurdle for almost every prospective Ghanaian citizen. Most Ghanaians are discouraged from travelling because of the Visa requirement of most countries as they consider it too complex for them to even give it a try. However, the good news is that, not all countries require visas from Ghanaian citizens to be able to enter their countries.
Below is the updated list of visa-free countries for Ghanaian citizens as at the year 2021;
African Continent
- No visa obtained on arrival
- Burkina Faso
- Cape Verde
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Mali
- Guinea
- Liberia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
- Swaziland
- Benin
- The Gambia
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Madagascar
- Mauritius
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
- Visa obtained on arrival
- Djibouti
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Zambia
- Ethiopia
- Madagascar
- Somalia
Other Continents
- No visa obtained on arrival
- Jamaica
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Indonesia
- Micronesia
- Philippines
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Singapore
- Vanuatu
- Bangladesh
- Ecuador
- Grenada
- Haiti
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Barbados
- Dominica
- Visa obtained on arrival
- Jordan
- Iran
- Maldives
- Nicaragua
- Palau
- Saint Lucia
- Timor-Leste
- Tuvalu
- Somaliland
- Macau
- Bolivia
- Cambodia
- Comoros
Countries that require electronic Entry Visa
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahrain
- Cambodia
- Sri Lanka
- Comoros
- Gabon
- India
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lesotho
- Myanmar
Visa free on entry and visa on arrival is technically the same. The only difference here is that, with visa on arrival you are required to show you travelling passport and an entry granted.
On the other hand, visa on arrival requires the traveller obtaining a visa in order to enter the destination country but its only obtained upon arrival whether by sea, land or air. Therefore, visitors do not need to apply for a visa beforehand. There is always the assurance that on arrival you will be granted the visa to enter your destination country.
Visa required means that travellers must apply for a visa to the country before actually travelling there.
Embassies like United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), Netherlands and some few other require you have some of travel experience before you apply for their entry visa. It’s of no doubt that some individuals have gained visas from such countries without any travel experience but from my experience in visa assistance a good number of applicants who have travel experience were granted visas easily. Therefore, please take advantage of some of these visa free countries to build your travel experience before you apply to the UK or US.
