{"id":42892,"date":"2026-02-11T17:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42892"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:47:17","slug":"government-commences-vetting-of-historic-diaspora-community-citizenship-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/government-commences-vetting-of-historic-diaspora-community-citizenship-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Government commences vetting of \u2018historic diaspora community\u2019 citizenship applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"block-ghana-citizenship-application-diaspora-affairs-ministry-of-interior-2026\" class=\"notion-root max-width\">\n<div id=\"block-0f4399d450a34f6c8d61000180dd00c9\" class=\"notion-callout bg-green-light border\">\n<div class=\"notion-callout__content\">\n<p>The Ministry of the Interior, in collaboration with the Diaspora Affairs Office at the Office of the President, has announced the commencement of vetting for applicants under the \u201cHistoric Diaspora Community\u201d citizenship programme.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Tuesday, February 10, the Ministry said applicants would be invited in batches for vetting at the Dubois Centre in Cantonments, Accra, beginning February 11.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, \u201cApplicants for the Historic Diaspora Community will be scheduled in batches for vetting at the Dubois Centre, Cantonments in Accra, starting February 11.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials have cautioned applicants against visiting the centre without prior notification. The Ministry urged applicants to \u201cwait for notification on their vetting schedule from the Ministry before visiting the centre to avoid overcrowding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/government-commences-vetting-of-historic-diaspora-community-citizenship-applicants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/government-commences-vetting-of-historic-diaspora-community-citizenship-applicants\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of the Interior, in collaboration with the Diaspora Affairs Office at the Office of the President, has announced the commencement of vetting for applicants under the \u201cHistoric Diaspora Community\u201d citizenship programme. In a statement issued on Tuesday, February 10, the Ministry said applicants would be invited in batches for vetting at the Dubois [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-ghana","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42895,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42892\/revisions\/42895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}