US revokes all South Sudan visas over failure to repatriate citizens


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  • Sunday, 06 Apr 2025

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards a plane after attending the NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium, April 4, 2025. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS/ File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. said on Saturday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over South Sudan's failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens, at a time when many in Africa fear that country could return to civil war.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has taken aggressive measures to ramp up immigration enforcement, including the repatriation of people deemed to be in the U.S. illegally.

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