New blog post: Saudi Arabia Visa Guide for 2026.
Covers both the tourist eVisa (fast online process) and the family visit visa for expat workers sponsoring relatives through ksa-visa.sa. Step-by-step with screenshots.
Handy if you're a Filipino expat in KSA or just planning a trip:
Ghana Immigration Service Trains Officers Ahead of Nationwide E-Visa Rollout
📰 Original title: GIS steps up readiness for e
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The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) is preparing for the nationwide launch of Ghana's electronic visa (e-visa) system, scheduled for May 25, 2026. To ensure smooth implementation, GIS recently conducted a two-day training program in Accra, bringing together 40 officers from various immigration control points across the country. The training focused on equipping officers with the necessary skills to manage the fully digital platform, covering system workflows, document verification, monitoring procedures, and online payment processes. The e-visa system aims to simplify visa applications for foreign nationals, improve passenger processing, enhance security, and facilitate better data collection for national planning and international cooperation. Acting Deputy Comptroller-General Faisal Disu emphasized the importance of discipline, professionalism, data protection, and responsible handling of traveler information. The initiative is expected to promote transparency, accountability, and integrity within GIS operations. By providing a user-friendly and efficient interface for visitors, the system also seeks to boost tourism, business, and investment in Ghana. GIS management has reiterated its commitment to continuous capacity building, system upgrades, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure proper implementation of the e-visa system.
Ghana Immigration Service Trains Officers Ahead of Nationwide E-Visa Rollout
📰 Original title: GIS steps up readiness for e
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅
View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/ghana-immigration-service-trains-officers-ahead-of-nationwide-e-visa-rollout.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) is preparing for the nationwide launch of Ghana's electronic visa (e-visa) system, scheduled for May 25, 2026. To ensure smooth implementation, GIS recently conducted a two-day training program in Accra, bringing together 40 officers from various immigration control points across the country. The training focused on equipping officers with the necessary skills to manage the fully digital platform, covering system workflows, document verification, monitoring procedures, and online payment processes. The e-visa system aims to simplify visa applications for foreign nationals, improve passenger processing, enhance security, and facilitate better data collection for national planning and international cooperation. Acting Deputy Comptroller-General Faisal Disu emphasized the importance of discipline, professionalism, data protection, and responsible handling of traveler information. The initiative is expected to promote transparency, accountability, and integrity within GIS operations. By providing a user-friendly and efficient interface for visitors, the system also seeks to boost tourism, business, and investment in Ghana. GIS management has reiterated its commitment to continuous capacity building, system upgrades, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure proper implementation of the e-visa system.
Calls for the ICO to investigate the eVisa scheme have gone unheard.
ORG flagged that the Home Office failed to assess the risks of a digital-only scheme, exposing migrants to data errors and technical failures that impact their immigration status.
Rights fall apart without an effective regulator.
#ResetTheICO #dataprotection #privacy #ico #digitalrights #evisa #gdpr #ukpolitics #ukpol
ORG calls on the UK Information Commissioner's Office "to begin a formal investigation into data protection breaches and accessibility issues with the [eVisa] scheme."
“Migrants are being failed by the Home Office, which didn’t properly assess the risks of a digital-only roll-out."
🗣️ ORG's @sarahalsherif.
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19 civil society groups wrote to the ICO last year, warning of widespread data errors, inaccessible design and systemic technical failures with eVisas.
This has left migrants facing real difficulties in their day-to-day lives.
But ICO are dragging their feet while people suffer.
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19 civil society organisations have called on the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to formally investigate data protection breaches and accessibility issues arising as a result of the Home Office’s eVisa scheme.
A #UKMP, @GillFurnissMP raised concerns over #Somalia’s #eVisa system after #Somalilanders warned of privacy risks. The @FCDOGovUK’s cautious response signals limited urgency in #London. #Somaliland
https://saxafimedia.com/uk-somalia-e-visa-mp-somaliland-travelers/
Plowing ahead with a system riddled with technical and data errors risks creating another Windrush scandal.
Rather than being dragged to court, the UK government could've allowed physical documents as well as digital proof of the right to be in the UK.
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The eVisa judicial review will hear that the digital and online-only scheme is unlawful.
Without a physical copy of their immigration status, migrants are at risk of losing access to housing, services and work.
Despite being warned since before implementation, the UK Home Office has done nothing.
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