The powers that be at immigration routinely
decide whether or not one qualifies to be south Sudanese, based on whether or
not they think you ‘look south sudanese’.
It is extremely frustrating.
I spent about an hour at the airport
yesterday (travelling back from Zanzibar) detained at immigration for having a
Kenyan passport, South Sudanese travel document and not paying for a visa
either in Kenya or in South Sudan.
i.e I have to have had to pay for a visa.
Somewhere.
The immigration fellow kept saying things
like, “No you are not south Sudanese. You are Kenyan, and just pretending”
Or
‘I will send you back to where you came
from so that if you are using the south sudan travel document they have to
stamp this document, and you buy a visa for Kenya. Or you buy a visa for south
sudan and use Kenyan passport. Or you go to immigration hq and explain yourself
there. You cannot do both.. you are behaving like a criminal.
This coupled with the fact that I
constantly have to prove that I actually am from this bloody country wherever I
am?
I’m about to give up.
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