Yes. During the registration exercise, a receipt was printed for you to confirm your personal information that had been captured by the Registration Officer. Once you confirmed the details without correcting the error, you will be required to pay for the correction.

You are required by law to notify NIA of the change(s) within 30 days after the change. You will also be required to visit any of NIA’s Registration Offices or Ghana Mission Offices which handle such services for the appropriate updates to be carried out. Failure to do so is an offence.

Insofar as proof of the update exists, you must provide it. It is the responsibility of the Registration Officer to request for the proof.
There are however circumstances where proof will be impracticable to obtain.
These include proof of telephone and email details, details of next of kin, proof of residential and postal addresses, change of spousal details, languages spoken.
For update of height requests, the Registration Officer is required to retake your height.

No. Every update or replacement request must be signed or thumb printed by the applicant. If you signed your registration form, you will be required to also sign the update or replacement request form.

a. A Certificate of Naturalisation
b. An Oath of Allegiance
c. The Non-Citizen Ghana Card of the applicant if he or she possesses one
d. A Dual-Citizenship card if the applicant has one and
e. A valid Ghana passport if the applicant has one (for some dual citizens)

No. Not all requests can be honoured within a day. You will be notified once a decision is taken.

1. An applicant who is also a citizen of another country (countries) and has not renounced his or her Ghanaian citizenship.
2. It is important to check the citizenship rules of your country of residence before applying for a Ghana Card.
3. These countries allow dual citizenship only under special circumstances - Croatia, Panama, South Korea, Bulgaria, Germany, Netherlands, Austria to name a few. Always check the citizenship rules of the country you reside in before applying for a Ghana Card.* These countries allow dual citizenship only under special circumstances. *

No. Every applicant has only one date of birth. It cannot be changed. It can however be corrected if a Registration Officer mistakenly captured a date of birth which was different from what was stated on the mandatory verification document you presented during registration or stated on your application form (Form One) during registration.

The applicant is required to prove that prior to his or her registration for the Ghana Card, his or her official documents bore a particular date of birth. The proof must have existed prior to the applicant applying for his or her Ghana Card. In such instances, the applicant needs to provide at least the original copies of two (2) documents which were created before the date of registration for the Ghana Card.

The onus is on an applicant to provide the correct name(s) and date of birth during his or her registration. Failure to provide accurate information is a criminal offence. An applicant who has changed his name will be required to go through the legal processes for name change and present the evidence to a Registration Officer during the registration exercise.

No applicant has more than one date of birth. However, an applicant who wishes to correct his or her date of birth from that which appeared on the mandatory registration document he used during the registration exercise, the applicant will be required to provide satisfactory basis and evidence to support the request. The onus is on the applicant to ensure that all errors are corrected before applying for a Ghana Card. The Ghana Card registration process cannot be used to correct name and date of birth errors on ID documents and cards.

No applicant has more than one date of birth. However, an applicant who wishes to correct his or her date of birth from that which appeared on the mandatory registration document he used during the registration exercise will be required to provide satisfactory basis and evidence to support the correction. The onus is on the applicant to ensure that his or name and date of birth are corrected before he applies to register for the Ghana Card. The registration process cannot be used to correct name and date of birth errors on ID documents and cards.

No. The Birth Certificate or passport should have been issued to the applicant before he or she registered for the Ghana Card. NIA does not accept any document called updated Birth Certificate.

A Birth Certificate is issued only once to an applicant. Any subsequent issues are certified copies and cannot provide details different from what was captured at first registration. If there is a mistake on the issued Birth Certificate, the applicant bears the onus of proving the mistake to the satisfaction of NIA.

The onus is on you to have the errors corrected before registration for the Ghana Card.
If the document is used for the Ghana Card registration, you will be required to go back to the issuing agency to attest to the fact of the error. The attestation must be signed by the Head of the said institution and supported with evidence.

You have to report the issue to the Police. The Police will then issue you with a Police Extract confirming that you have reported the loss/theft/damage of your Ghana Card. You will then visit any NIA Registration Office or a Ghana Mission abroad and be taken through a replacement process which requires you to pay a fee. The list of fees for replacement can be found at www.nia.gov.gh

1. A Police Extract from the Ghana Police Service
2. The damaged or defaced Ghana Card of the applicant (for damaged or defaced cards replacement requests).

i. A Registration Officer needs to read your Ghana Card to pull up your personal information stored in the National Identity Register.
ii. Secondly, once the update request results in the printing of a new Ghana Card, the old one has to be retrieved from you and destroyed by NIA.

No. You must present the original copy of the Police Extract which will be scanned by a Registration Officer into the NIR. The original copy is then given back to you after it has been scanned.

Technically, yes e.g. the photograph is of poor quality or does not meet ICAO standards.
However, from an operational standpoint, kindly check with the Registration Office if the service is being offered by NIA.
Note that every request must be supported with justification. Before the update process is completed, an NIA official will review the application, approve it and document the basis for the approval. For such requests, a copy of the old Ghana Card will be scanned into the NIR. No updates are allowed for applicants who simply do not like their photos on the Ghana Card.

Marriage or a marriage ceremony does not automatically change the name of a woman or confer on her, the name of her husband. A Marriage Certificate only states the maiden names of the persons marrying.
The law requires an applicant (woman) who wishes to change her maiden name to that of her husband’s following her marriage, to take the necessary steps to have the change of name gazetted.

No. An affidavit is a self-serving document deposed to by an applicant and cannot be a substitute for a Gazette notification. The law requires the applicant to gazette the change or correction at Assembly Press to the world before it can be legally recognized as a change.

Note however that NIA is required to ask further questions during an update process to confirm the details on any document provided by an applicant requesting for an update service.

No. NIA cannot accept the receipt from Assembly Press as representing proof of a Gazetted notification. There must be documentary evidence to confirm that the changes have been properly effected by way of a Gazette Notification.

The law mandates NIA under section 11 of the National Identity Register Act, 2008 (Act 750) as amended, to request an individual applicant to furnish it with proof of the accuracy of any particulars that have been submitted in respect of the individual.

Although a Gazette Notification is an official document, NIA is permitted by law to request an applicant to furnish it with any information it may require to verify an entry in the Register beyond the gazette notification. NIA may therefore reject a gazette notification if the applicant is unable to prove the contents of the gazette notification.

In special circumstances and in addition to other documents. The first point of reference must always be the verification documents presented by the applicant during registration for the Ghana Card. If those documents have an error on them, the onus is on the applicant to prove to the satisfaction of NIA that there was an error.
In very special circumstances, NIA will request for additional documents such as school leaving certificates, SSNIT or NHIA cards to confirm the applicant’s personal information. In such circumstances, the application must be escalated to a Review Officer to review and approve same.

NB: These documents or ID cards should have been issued to the applicant before the applicant registered for the Ghana Card NOT after.