Kwasi Asante Assigned As Director of Passports

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has reassigned Mr Kwasi Asante as the substative director of passports. His appointment takes effect from Monday, 19 August 2024.

“The honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has decided that you should be re-assigned to the Passport Office as the Director of Passports with effect from Monday, 19th August, 2024,” Mr Asante’s reassignment letter read:“ You are,  therefore, requested to take steps to undergo the required handing over process to cnable you assume duty,” the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration’s letter further directed.

As the substantive director of passports in Ghana, he will be responsible for the overall management and administration of the passport issuance process as well as the overseeing of the processing and issuance of passports to eligible Ghanaian citizens.

He will also be expected to develop and implement policies and procedures for passport issuance, ensure that all passport applications meet the required criteria, and verify the authenticity of documents.

Another significant duty of Mr Kwasi Asante will be to work with other government agencies, such as immigration and national security, to ensure effective passport administration as well as to ensure compliance with international passport standards and regulations.
 
Prior to his new assignment, Mr Kwasi Asante was the Chargė D’affaires at Ghana’s Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a position he has held from May 2024. At the same Embassy, he has served as the Deputy Ambassador/DPR from June 2021 to August 2024.

Before his posting to Addis Ababa, Kwasi Asante worked at the Passport Office as the director of operations from April 2020 to June 2021. He has also served at the ECOWAS Commission Executive Assistant from June 2018 to April 2020.
 
His diplomatic career has also taken him to the Embassy of Ghana in Tel Aviv, Isreal, where he worked as Minister-Counsellor/HOC from September 2016 to June 2018. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mr Asante worked as Deputy Director from September 2013 to September 2016.

Between 2009 and 2013, Kwasi Asante held the role of Counsellor/HOC at the Embassy of Ghana in Seoul, Korea and from 2006 to 2009, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an assistant director and from 2001 to 2006, he served as an assistant economic officer at the then Ministry of Economic Planning & Regional
Cooperation.