The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has issued a clarification regarding media reports that suggested it would deploy its local staff to foreign embassies to deliver driver licensing services.
In a statement dated February 26, 2026, the Authority stressed that the initiative does not involve sending DVLA personnel abroad. It explained that, contrary to some headlines, no domestic staff would be stationed at embassies in the selected countries.
According to the DVLA, it has collaborated with Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to roll out International Driver’s Permit processing and Driver’s Licence renewal services for Ghanaians living abroad. The programme will initially cover five countries: the United States, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Under the arrangement, embassy personnel in these countries will be trained to verify applicants’ documents. The verified documents will then be forwarded to the DVLA headquarters in Ghana for processing, after which the completed permits or licences will be returned to the embassies for applicants to collect.
The clarification follows remarks made by DVLA Chief Executive Julius Neequaye Kotey during the commissioning of a new DVLA office in Bantama, Kumasi, on February 25, 2026. Addressing staff at the event, he indicated that some DVLA officers would travel overseas to provide services in five countries, adding that approval had been secured from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support Ghanaians abroad so they would not need to return home to renew expired one-year licences.
His comments created the impression that staff would be physically deployed outside Ghana, a position that management later clarified as a back-end processing system supported by embassy staff rather than an overseas posting of DVLA officers.
