The Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport, and Immigration has warned foreigners not to enter South Sudan without valid documents from their own countries.
This came after the government deported 20 foreigners allegedly from Ethiopia and Eritrea this week.
The Director of Immigration General Atem Marol Biar, says his department will strengthen its mandate to regulate foreigners and stop anyone entering the country illegally.
“We don’t have any problem with them, but our role as immigration department we want to regulate them. Juba is a city of South Sudan and we cannot allow everybody come to without legal document.
The Director claimed the measure is to prevent terrorists or those with criminal records living in the country.
“We are doing this for safety of foreigners who are here and for the safety of the people of South Sudan,” Moral said.
He highlighted that people allowed to enter the country without proper documents are those facing crises in their own country.
“We use to be except people if there is something let them run away from their country if there is war, hunger, disaster, and then you run away as a group then such they are allowed to enter without document.
Gen. Marol says the deported foreign national entered from Sudan, Uganda and D.R Congo.
He warned those criticizing the authority for deporting foreign nationals entering the Country illegally.
Earlier this week, the Executive Director of Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) Edmund Yakani appealed to President Salva Kiir to intervene in order for Eritrean and Ethiopian asylum seekers to be spared from possible deportation.