{"id":7466,"date":"2022-01-11T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:18:57","slug":"visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators","title":{"rendered":"VISA FRAUD-Police seizes 41 passports, arrest 5 collaborators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Yiep Joseph<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Immigration police have confiscated 41 passports belonging to foreign nationals working mostly in the oil sector over visa fraud and arrested five police officers through whom the fake visas were acquired.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing media yesterday, Brig-Gen Ater Nicola Alieny, head of Kololo immigration office revealed that 41 passports whose owners got access visas without fulfilling required procedures and outside the official channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have confiscated 41 passports due to fraud in visa and arrested some suspects, We are still on the search, we will investigate some companies and NGOs. Some companies got access to visas without requirements and no financial transaction was made [cash receipt] to the Ministry of Finance, so when we discovered this phenomenon, we suspected some of our personnel and officers,\u201d the senior police officer said.<\/p>\n<p>He said individuals working for companies and NGOs including DPOC, GPOC, UNMISS, AAH, ACF, ACTED UNICEF, DPAB, SDHS, GWDC, CPECC colluded with rogue officers and acquired visas without due procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are other companies; SPECC, UNI-AFRO, NPVF 15-CORDAID Star Contracting Co, Samaritans Purse, Concern Worldwide, Allied Service, Palm Africa Hotel, Link Hotel, MSF, World Vision, and ICRC among others,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the companies which have these visas, a total number of 41 visas for durations of one year without any procedure done,\u201d he complained He warned the staff of the companies and NGOs in question to avoid dubious agents and work directly with the visa department in Kololo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to inform these companies and NGOs to never accept any broker, those third-party agents who intervene to ease visa facilitation but to directly work with the visa department in Kololo office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Bosco Buol Majer, Chief of Visa at Kololo Department of Immigration office said that the 41 fake visas were detected after they were brought to their office for renewal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspicion arose when we came to realize that there are some officers and NCOs who work jointly with foreigners to process visas outside our offices. When these visas came to us, we had a system whereby any visa that is issued here must be in the system including the NRA financial form, we also have the bank that is collecting money on behalf of NRA,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, these passports did not pass through the above procedures and therefore the 41 were detected fake,\u201d Buol said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the passports confiscated contained one year visa without meeting the necessary requirements and cited that the department responsible for visas did not issue any of the visas in question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not give you a one-year visa without you meeting the requirements. Regarding basic requirements, you must have a permanent address, you must have a business you are running, you must have an operating license, you must have a work permit acquired from the ministry of labour among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The officer added that the Immigration prices for visas are in the Financial Act and can\u2019t be determined by a single individual. \u201cThe price for a visa is in the financial Act, the financial Act is a law that we are using, we don\u2019t determine visa fees but they are determined by the Ministry of Finance and collected by NRA,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people go and collect the money and do not remit to the government which means these are unscrupulous officials who want to misuse government resources, and that is why we are distancing ourselves from them,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that the Directorate of Civil Registry, Passport and Immigration does not have agents but deals directly with clients. \u201cI want to urge all the NGOs, the Internationals organizations and the companies especially our oil engineering companies who had many foreigners to directly deal with the Kololo immigration office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. By Yiep Joseph Immigration police have confiscated 41 passports belonging to foreign nationals working mostly in the oil sector over visa fraud and arrested five police officers through whom the fake visas were acquired. Addressing media yesterday, Brig-Gen Ater Nicola Alieny, head of Kololo immigration office revealed that 41 passports whose owners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VISA FRAUD-Police seizes 41 passports, arrest 5 collaborators - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Yiep Joseph Immigration police have confiscated 41 passports belonging to foreign nationals working mostly in ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VISA FRAUD-Police seizes 41 passports, arrest 5 collaborators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Yiep Joseph Immigration police have confiscated 41 passports belonging to foreign nationals working mostly in ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-11T09:50:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-11T13:18:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/01\/img-61dd83a53bb74.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"541\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"VISA FRAUD-Police seizes 41 passports, arrest 5 collaborators\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-11T09:50:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-11T13:18:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators\"},\"wordCount\":647,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/01\/img-61dd83a53bb74.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/visa-fraud-police-seizes-41-passports-arrest-5-collaborators\",\"name\":\"VISA FRAUD-Police seizes 41 passports, arrest 5 collaborators - 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