DVLA: GH¢25 Fee for Pre-2023 Cars’ Digital Onboarding (Bio-Data Verification Now Required)
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has announced that owners of vehicles registered before 2023 will be required to pay GH¢25 to update their records onto the Authority’s digital system, a process Director of Driver Training, Testing and Licensing, Kafui Semevo, said is intended to verify ownership of manually registered vehicles and prevent uncustomed vehicles from being captured; vehicle owners must personally visit DVLA offices or designated centres with their vehicles, registration documents, customs declaration forms and Ghana Card for biometric verification, after which successful onboarding will allow them to obtain a title certificate and an electronic registration card that will become mandatory under the new licence plate policy, although Mr. Semevo clarified that the GH¢25 fee applies only to bio-data verification and not the onboarding itself, explaining, “The onboarding process itself, verifying the documents, verifying the vehicle and saying it is okay in our records, you don’t pay for it. But it costs GHȼ25 to verify your bio-data… So, at this point, you just pay for the verification. When we start the new system, you can get your title and certificate with a new number, which I think is fair. However, vehicles registered between January 2022 and December 2023 are not yet included, and their owners should wait to be officially invited by the DVLA.
