Worldwide Civil Aviation Organization offers indicated that recent reviews suggesting that GhanaCard has become an e-passport are wrong. According to the organization, it is not ICAO’s role to certify conditions State’s Identity Card meant for international travel in place of the passport. This was disclosed inside a statement the organization shared upon its social media handles. “ICAO is aware of recent and wrong media reports claiming that will ICAO has agreed the fact that Ghanaian ID card is the same as an ePassport. However , it is far from ICAO’s role to approve the use of a State’s Identity Cards for international travel instead of a passport. ”It shows that “A number of Declares worldwide accept specified nationwide ID cards as identification documents during air travel depending on bilateral agreement between providing and receiving states. Any choice to accept such alternative traveling identity documents is made by receiving state itself”. Including that “Ghana’s successful bottom line of its key ceremony upon 9th February is a main milestone in its efforts to give for more international acceptance from the electronic travel documents”. Previously this week, reports in the mass media in Ghana suggested the fact that GhanaCard is now accepted being an e-passport by the International City Aviation Organization. The reviews said the International City Aviation Organisation (ICAO) provided its seal of approval for the Ghana Card, as well as its future biometric equivalents, to be used as formal documentation at all 197 ICAO compliant countries and forty-four, 000 airports worldwide. The particular ICAO organised a “key ceremony” at its head office in Montreal, Canada, Wed [February 9, 2022], during which Ghana received the ‘key’ in order to symbolically indicate its entrance into the ICAO family. The particular ceremony marked the foreign trade of Ghana’s “Signing Certification Authority” into the ICAO Community Key Directory System. However the card has been okayed, the actual usage will become achievable by the end of the 2nd quarter of this year, following the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) links its systems towards the NIA architecture for information integration. Source: MyNewsGh. com/ 2022Send your news tales to [email protected] and via WhatsApp upon +233 202452509Related Topics: FeatureGhana