Politics USA revokes visas of South Sudanese
The USA is revoking all visas for citizens of the East African crisis country of South Sudan. In addition, the issuing of new visas for this group is to be restricted in order to prevent entry into the United States "with immediate effect", US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on the X platform. The reason he gave was that the South Sudanese transitional government was not prepared to take back citizens on time who were to be sent back there from the USA.
06.04.2025, 04:00
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"It is time for the transitional government of South Sudan to stop taking advantage of the United States," the US State Department said in a statement. Enforcing immigration laws is of critical importance to US national security. Every country must accept the timely return of its citizens if another country wants to deport them. However, the USA was prepared to review the visa measures as soon as South Sudan cooperated fully.
South Sudan experienced a severe civil war following its independence from its northern neighbor Sudan in 2011. President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his opponent Riek Machar formed a joint transitional government in 2020, which is now in danger of failing. The violence in the country of around eleven million inhabitants has recently intensified again.
