{"id":1191999,"date":"2022-08-27T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T11:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/27\/waiting-times-for-uk-visas-are-coming-down-harriet-thompson\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T11:39:43","slug":"waiting-times-for-uk-visas-are-coming-down-harriet-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/27\/waiting-times-for-uk-visas-are-coming-down-harriet-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Waiting times for UK visas are coming down\u2019 \u2013 Harriet Thompson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"'Waiting times for UK visas are coming down\u2019 \u2013 Harriet Thompson     \" title=\"'Waiting times for UK visas are coming down\u2019 \u2013 Harriet Thompson     \"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson says the waiting time to get visas to travel to the United Kingdom (UK) is reducing.<\/p>\n<p>In a yet-to-air interview on JoyNews\u2019 <strong>The Probe<\/strong>, she announced the return of the UK\u2019s priority service and apologised for the situation regarding the waiting time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really pleased to say the priority visa service is back in Ghana and that is across all of the categories \u2026.the waiting times are coming down, I am sorry about the length of time that has been taken to the UK recently,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1332063286&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The UK Commissioner explained that the wait is due to the enormous pressures on the system caused by the Afghanistan crisis a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>She added that another situation accounting for the wait is the Russian invasion of Ukraine \u201cwanting to be able to bring refugees to the country quickly\u201d to seek asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, she noted that the wait is \u201cnow on an average of 5 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I want to make sure people know that they can apply for their visa up to three months before they expect to travel and the visa will then start from when the travel actually happens so there is no need to leave it until you\u2019ve got your tickets booked,\u201d she added while advising travellers to obtain a visa before purchasing a ticket. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson says the waiting time to get visas to travel to the United Kingdom (UK) is reducing. In a yet-to-air interview on JoyNews\u2019 The Probe, she announced the return of the UK\u2019s priority service and apologised for the situation regarding the waiting time. \u201cI am really pleased to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2720,9599,4577,107,15431,2186],"class_list":["post-1191999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-coming","tag-harriet","tag-thompson","tag-times","tag-visas","tag-waiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}