Ghanaian passport for IShowSpeed, the American YouTube star whose live-streamed, 20-country “Speed Does Africa” tour had drawn tens of millions of viewers and made international headlines for breaking stereotypes about the continent. Ghana was the only country on the tour to formalize the 21-year-old creator’s status with citizenship, and Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa called […]
The State Department has reduced the cost of renouncing American citizenship from $2,350 to $450. A final rule published in the Federal Register on March 13, 2026 makes the change effective approximately April 12, 2026. The fee returns to where it stood between 2010 and 2014, before a surge in renunciation requests led the government […]
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