Expensive visas making trips home difficult – Ghanaians in Demark

Some Ghanaians in Denmark have blamed the high cost of visas for their inability to come home often to contribute their quota to national development.

Kwame Owusu Danquah, an IT Consultant in Denmark, one of such persons who complained, has thus called on the government to ease the cost of acquiring visas for people of Ghanaian descent to enable them and their families return to the country with ease.

Speaking to Citi FM’s Bernard Avle who’s in Denmark alongside three other journalists ahead of a visit by the Danish Queen to Ghana, Dr. Owusu Danquah, who doubles as the chief of the Akan Community in Denmark, said persons like him remained Ghanaian at heart despite having acquired other nationalities.

He spoke at the residence of Ghana’s Ambassador to Denmark, where a reception was held in honour of the Ghanaian journalists.

“Most of us have acquired other nationalities although our heart is Ghanaian and we would very much like to come to Ghana. We come [to Ghana] often, but another thing is that, the government should help us to come more often by reducing the visa fees which are quite expensive.”

“If you and your wife and two children are coming, it is very very expensive,” Mr. Danquah noted further.

He pointed to the example of India as one country that makes it easy for its citizens in the diaspora to contribute immensely to the country’s economic fortunes, and said if the government “opens the doors, we will come.”

“We are ready and we have a lot of resources. We would like to contribute. We are Ghanaians and we would like to come back [home],” Mr. Danquah affirmed.

Danish queen’s visit

Citi FM’s reports from Denmark come ahead of the official State Visit of Denmark’s Head of State, Her Majesty the Queen Margrethe II, from November 23 to November 24.

The 3-day press trip to Denmark was organised for four selected Ghanaian journalists, including Citi Breakfast Show host, Bernard Koku Avle.

The press trip will be capped with a press conference with Queen Margrethe II.

The Queen, on her eventual historic visit to Ghana, is expected to be accompanied by a Danish business delegation within three focus sectors, namely food & agriculture, sustainability, maritime, infrastructure and railways.

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By: Bernard Avle & Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

Some Ghanaians in Denmark have blamed the high cost of visas for their inability to come home often to contribute their quota to national development. Kwame Owusu Danquah, an IT Consultant in Denmark, one of such persons who complained, has thus called on the government to ease the cost of acquiring visas for people of ... Read Full Story