The US has revoked visas for South Sudanese while civil war threatens at home
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The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the Trump administration has abruptly revoked the visas of all South Sudanese, saying the country’s government has failed to accept the return of its citizens “in a timely manner.
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The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the visas of South Sudanese in the U.S. will be revoked.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has canceled visas for people from South Sudan because the country has refused to accept the return of its immigrants deported from the United States.
The U.S. said on Saturday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over that country's failure of to accept the return of repatriated citizens.
The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the Trump administration has abruptly revoked the visas of all South Sudanese, saying the country’s government has failed to accept the return of its citizens “in a timely manner.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all South Sudan passport holders because the country’s transitional government had refused to accept in a...
The U.S. is immediately revoking South Sudan visas and barring future issuance until the East African country agrees to accept deportees, according to the State Department.
The US State Department has revoked the visas for South Sudanese nationals. The move comes with the sub-Saharan country on the brink of a renewed civil war. Rebecca Hamilton, the executive editor of Just Security and a professor of law at American University, discusses the implications with The Worl…
