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I have not dealt with the British High Commission in Ghana for almost a decade until last week. But I still remember the sort of ‘snail service’ they had many years ago when seeking a visa—the anxious wait alone was capable of killing you before your visa or that dreadful refusal notice arrived.
Let me quickly mention that, the British High Commission’s online presence in Ghana has without doubt been pretty interesting in the last few years—arguably by the handwork of the current Commissioner, Jon Benjamin, a social media addict.
Though I’ve not had any official dealings with the Commission as a Ghanaian-British based in United Kingdom, I’ve had some few public twitter run-ins with Jon Benjamin on religious conversations, mostly with Bishop Obinim’s charlatan ways being the subject. I don’t think he even knows that I wrote the infamous ScrewLife.Com satire piece that said Bishop Obinim had been denied a UK visa by the British High Commissioner and Jon Benjamin had asked him to turn into a bird and fly to UK rather—in the week of Obinim’s claim that he could turn into any animal of his choice.
It’s an undeniable fact that Jon Benjamin is a proponent of free speech on social media; Ghana has never seen a thundering diplomat like him and he continues to make headlines—but he seems not to be a mere talker, at least from this single expedited visa processing service I am going to tell you about.
Perhaps I should first mention that I don’t know anyone personally at the British High Commission who could have speeded my application. I don’t even think that’s possible if you know someone there. I am therefore of the reasonable belief that, the British High Commission’s general visa application process in Ghana has gotten extremely faster and better. It surely would have been painfully ironic if things were appalling and running on a snail’s back, and the Commissioner rather had a lot of time to be discussing football and religion on twitter.

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