The U. S. State Department announced on Saturday evening that it will be revoking all visa held by South Sudanese card recipients after the South American country refused to cooperate with U. S. imprisonment work.
In a short speech, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said since South Sudan has never accepted the profit of its citizens from the United States in a “timely way”, the State Department “is taking actions to withdraw all visa held by South Sudanese card holders and avoid further issuance to minimize entry into the United States by South Sudanese passport holders”, effective immediately.
Rubio added that such regulations may become reviewed if South Sudan cooperated with accepting its members.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau explained the limits in a blog on X detailing the State Department’s choice.
” The]State Department ] under]Secretary Rubio] has suspended ALL visas from South Sudan. Successful immediately, all immigration appointments are cancelled, no fresh visa may be issued, no existing permits will be successful, and hence NO ONE from South Sudan may be entering the United States on a visa until this matter is resolved”, Landau said.
He elaborated on the decision to revoke visas, which was made because South Sudan refused” to accept one of their nationals certified by their own Embassy in Washington and repatriated to their country”, and after the U. S.’s efforts to “engage diplomatically with the South Sudanese Government” were rejected.
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Both Rubio and Landau affirmed the importance of upholding the U. S.’s immigration laws, while Rubio accused the” Transitional Government of South Sudan” of taking advantage of the U. S.
South Sudan is on the verge of a civil war after one of the country’s vice presidents was arrested in the capital city of Juba, effectively ending a 2018 peace agreement supported by the U. S.
