Ghana/Togo Border | Customs and Immigration

*Togo - New Visa Rules !!!*
Here is what I would have liked to know, before showing up at the border today:
Togo no longer issues transitvisa at the border. Since 10 days ago.
Apparently there are 2 options:
- Embassy in Accra.
- Online application.
I will take a bus back to Accra tomorrow to see if I can get it at the embassy. It is faster and cheaper than online.
Will update after I get news.

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!! Currently it is not possible to get a VoA for Togo.
You need to apply for an eVisa at any cost and you have to apply for it minimum 5 days before arriving at the boarder.
Please also see attached Screen Shot (taken April 23rd) from the website of the Togo state (in French)!!

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Ghana -> Togo
No CdP; VOA

Exactly as described below by britta_borderless

Couple of clarifications:
1. The building to close your TIP is the one marked on iOverlander as Carnet stamp. Surprisingly out of the way - feel free to drive around.
2. The receipt thing they give you is then completed at the Ecobank office back at the main road that you passed going up to the previous office.
3. Go to the customs window on the left hand side of the road, which is next to the entree immigration (this may have been due to me crossing on the 26th Dec, maybe a smaller staff on duty) to finalise.
4. Passport stamp was on the left of the road for me (see possible reason above)
5. Back over to the right for the Togo affairs.
All as described.

VOA was 500 cedis or 25000cfa.
I just got a 7 day transit visa, as constrained on time.

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Ghana -> Togo

Get mentally prepared for the crowd of fixers. Best just ignore them and they let you be.

4x4 camper no CDP, previously got a TIP for Ghana.

1. You have to “close” your TIP at a building on your left behind another building. Ask officers where it is. You also get a small paper there.

2. You get some stamps at the building where you just walked by.

3. Passport exit stamp on your right when you arrived at the border.

4. Same building has entry stamp for Togo.
- show your yellow fever vaccination card
- fill out a form (even if you have an e-visa)
- receive stamp

5. Get your laisser-passer at a “stall” straight after you entered Togo after a big building straight just on your right. It’s 7.000 cfa (with receipt)

6. Go back to the border. Show all your documents. They write down the car number and that’s it.

Exchange rate in Togo:
1€ = 655 cfa

SIM card:
Got one for 5.000 cfa. 1 GB = 1.000 cfa. Probably got overcharged. I didn’t shop around.

No one asked me for bribes.

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Togo -> Ghana
Nous avons fait le visa a cotonou, apres avoir eu la carte de resident du pays.
Visa : 15000 fcfa pour 1 mois.

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I had a vida entente from Burkina Faso, they refuse me to enter with that visa.
I was forced to pay 25000 cfa for 2 weeks visa.
Rude people working there.

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At the Togo border they refuse my visa Entente, I got it in Burkina Faso.
I was forced to pay 25000 cfa for 2 weeks visa.
Rude people working there.

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Don’t enter here if you do not have a CDP - it’s not worth the hassle. We spent 5 hours at the border.
We paid for our Lasser Passé in Contonou embassy for Ghana for cfa3000
We had an ecowas brown card
They didn’t accept either. Wanted us to pay a bond for car and fit a tracker for €1000 (out of hip estimation)

We refused and claimed we couldn’t afford it and didn’t have money. They refused us.

We were sent to “boss” after “boss” after “boss” - all contradicting each other.

We had a helper and an agent helping us who also thought it would be sorted

In the end they worked hard to negotiate on our behalf. One boss gave us the go ahead and another turned us back and this continued.

Eventually we got the go ahead - saying our brown card was not valid as our car was not registered in West Africa and so didn’t count.

We ended up paying €350 in total for this and that and 7 days to leave.

Bureaucracy is king here.

Save yourself the stress and get your CDP

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Borer is open 24x7. Smooth process at Togo entry. 25000 CFA for 15 days transit visa single entry.

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Ghana to Togo German & Brazil passport stamp the CDP out and in Visa 2 weeks 25.000 cfa Stressful people around

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Ghana> Togo

Did this on a Sunday, so the border didn't seem busy. Went pretty smoothly to leave Ghana. I changed my Cedis on the Ghana side and got a great exchange rate. The 7 day transit visa to Togo was not available anymore. So I paid 25k XOF to the single entry 15 day visa.
Overall found a very smooth border.

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Leaving Togo to Ghana

There is no way to get a visa in Lome for french people, and on the internet either, you have to do it at the border. Leaving Togo is easy, you just have to fill up a form and get your stamp.
Ghana side: they asked for Covid vaccination and yellow fever card. Then you go through the visa process.
They asked me a hotel reservation in Ghana, or picture of the id of my host in Ghana + contact details. I had to screenshot a fake booking that they printed.
Then they asked for money, they wanted to charge me 200$. 150 for the visa and 50$ for the fees. I knew it wasn’t the real prices so I refused to pay the fees as they couldn’t show me an official paper where the prices were written. I ended up paying 150$ in cédis, they gave me a receipt where they wrote 120$. When I reached Ghana, people told me the real price was 70$.
If you walk a little further you’ll see small buses going to Accra for 65 cédis.

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Costs of visa: single 15 days 25kCFA, multiple entry 15 days 35kCFA. Both were said to be extendable in Lomé. No hassle from the officials on each side of the border. Covid vaccines checked.
Moneychangers on the streets of Aflao are crooks but there is a Forex shop where you can change your money in peace and safety. 18cedis/1000xof (could be better), 660xof/1eur (pretty good).

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From Ghana to Togo
Leave from Ghana was quite simple.
Then Togo
Prices for visas changed.
Now it's 25000 CFA for 15 days in Transit.
They tried to make us pay 35000 because we said that we will visit a few places .... Then they tried to ask us 5000/pers for administrative costs... Finaly we paid normal price : 25 000 !!!

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NEW PRICE VISA ON ARRIVAL 35.000 CFA
From Ghana to Togo. A lot of people trying help for money, but pacific. To go out from Ghana, free stamp on pasport and CDP.
To go inside Togo, check yellow fiver and covid pasport, visa on arrival very fast, and stamp in CDP, very fast. nobodies check your papers to go out, some officials ask for money, but pacific, you are free to give or not.

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From Ghana to Togo: Easy and relatively quick border. Got the stamp for the carnet on the Ghana side without any problem. Than immigration and customs again, but no proplem.
On Togo side: As long as the borders are close due to covid, you need a laisser passer from the togolese Embassy. With this document, it was no problem to get a transit visa for 7 days for 10.000 cfa (German passport, there seems to be difference). No problem to get the stamp for the carnet and then no other fees were asked.

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From Ghana to togo, you need to find the custom 300m from the main place to get your CPD stamped, then you have to go to a second place where they give you a small paper with your car/bike informations on it. Then you have to go to a 3rd place to have the small paper stamped. You will have to present it on your way out. Nothing to pay for that.
We payed 2000 cfa (3€) to have the help from one off the helpers always ready to help :)
Entering Togo, it took 15 mns to get our passeport stamped and buy a 7000 CFA (11€) "Laissez-passer" for the bike.
Open 24h

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From Ghana to Togo :
very easy to go out from Ghana. we gave our Ghana passavent then we stamped our passport.
To enter in Togo : 10000fcfa for 7 day visa for spanish and french passports. it can be 15000 for other nationalities.
for the car : 7000fcfa for 1 month passavent.
very quick and no hassle.
you can change in Ghana your last cedis for fcfa (1 cedi=104fcfa).

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10 000 Visa,
7000 passavant for Togo.
Ask « moustache » togolese guy, very gentle . He help me 👍

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Easy boarder. Ghanaian side stamped the carnet out without problems. Bought the Togo visa on arrival for 10.000cfa. Police wanted again 10.000 for letting me pass. Denied. No customs so I left without stamping my carnet. Lots of fixers which you all don’t need.

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Leaving Ghana is a hassle 1000 fixers running towards you, most annoying so far, absolutely no sign on where to stamp the Carnet and passport. To stamp the carnet you need to go where all the trucks are parked, and ask a police officer for the customs. Passport stamp is on the left side of the border when facing Togo, tok a while because we had to fill out departure forms, no payments tho.

Entering Togo was super easy, visa took 5 minutes and passport stamped at the same place. 10 000 CFA 7 days. No false payment asked and didn’t ask for the car at all, so carnet not stamped :).

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Leaving Ghana to enter Togo.
We reached at night, it was quite busy and full of fixers, plus you have to go to drive on the other side of the road and come back.

Getting out of Ghana quite simple: get the car checked out at the customs (indeed in a office near the bagage inspection and not visible from the street) then get passports stamped out.

Entering Togo: visa at the border, 10000CAF for 7 days for EU, 250000 for African passport (not so sure this one was the real price).
Then get the car details registered. They tried to charge us each 2000CAF and as we questioned it they searched the car and made us put everything on the ground. Did not pay the 4000CFA.
Then customs for the laissez-passer, cost us 7000CAF and the price is on the document.

As it was quite busy took us a couple of hours.

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Leaving Togo simple enough. Need to get immigration stamp, Carnet (assuming you have one, going to Ghana it's highly likely you do). And also register vehicle details. They try to charge me 1000 CFA for this. I think it might be legit as i saw locals paying this. And at the Benin border with Togo too. But it still smelled of a scam so I questioned it and asked for a receipt. I got a ticket but can't remember if it had the value on it. either way. I didn't pay it as on other entries/exit to Togo.

Ghana border simple enough again. Immigration card, then entry stamp. Customs for Carnet is quite a walk in an office near a compound marked something like baggage. Where they inspect luggage. not me though

All in all. Busy border. Lots of helpers and fixers on the Togo side though I dismissed them easy enough. One did latch on but I told home straight I don't need him. I'll give him nothing. He did ask at the end. I reminded him. of what I said before

The Togo officials will point you into the right direction.

Ghana side. 1 guy tried to help me. But the Ghana policeman chased him off then basically acted like a fixer for me! Just to be helpful. Love Ghana.

The border I logged north was way easier and zero hassle. Probably net neutral as far as time goes. what you drive more. you save in faffing and queuing. Both roads are pretty dull so take your choice.

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