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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Faisal Ali

Trump administration revokes all South Sudanese visas in repatriation row

US secretary of state Marco Rubio
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said Washington would review the visa ban when South Sudan was in ‘full cooperation’. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/Reuters

The US is revoking the visas of all South Sudanese passport-holders and will stop any more of its citizens entering the country.

The Department of State said South Sudan was “taking advantage of the United States” by failing to comply with US efforts to return people to the east African country, adding that the measures would come into effect immediately.

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