The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed it would end protections from deportation for South Sudanese nationals, according to a notice published on Nov. 5 in the Federal Register.
South Sudanese nationals now have a 60-day grace period to leave the United States before facing deportation starting in early January 2026, the DHS said in the notice on their designation status, which expired on Nov. 3.
The agency said that South Sudan’s situation was no longer within the conditions for the temporary protected status (TPS) for that country’s nationals who are in the United States
“While there is inter/intra-communal violence linked to border disputes, cross-border violence, cyclical and retaliatory attacks, and ethnic polarization, return to full-scale civil war, to-date, has been avoided,” the department wrote in the filing….