South Sudan

South Sudan · Africa

Some descriptions for this country are still Russian only: 90% translated. Numbers, prices and timelines are complete.

Entry

Entry rules depend on citizenship. Choose a passport to see the requirement for that one.

Work and visas

Visa types: The open part of South Sudan's state sites knows exactly one ground — the electronic visa at `evisa.gov.ss`. Not one reachable page describes a list of visa types, a work permit, or a residence permit. · The term is named outright and as a single figure: the PDF visa is issued within 72 hours of filing and payment. · The fee is paid online by card, but no open page prints its size: the service catalogue answers 401 without an account. · There is no point checking South Sudan's embassy sites: the two domains that the old links lead to have passed to unrelated owners and serve sites with nothing to do with the country.

South Sudan has exactly one open state node on the subject — `evisa.gov.ss`, the shop window of the Department of E-Visa and Immigration Services. It is a 14 KB page, and it honestly describes the PROCEDURE: an account, an application, payment by card, a PDF visa within 72 hours, and presenting it to the officer at the port of entry. Everything else is behind the login: the service catalogue `immigration.eservices.gov.ss` answers 401 on `/services`, `/services/2` and `/services/2/apply`, and pages with prices or a list of visa types do not exist on it at all (404). No detours are left: `mofa.gov.ss` does not resolve, and the embassy domains `southsudanembassydc.org` and `goss.org` HAVE PASSED TO STRANGERS and serve other people's commercial sites — they must not be recorded as a source under any circumstances. Hence one ground here with an empty fee and an empty length of stay: everything that could be read has been read.

Long-term visas and residence permits

South Sudan e-Visa

Other

processing 3 days

Fee: The portal says only that the fee is paid online by card and names no sum at all. The service catalogue `immigration.eservices.gov.ss` answers 401 without an account on every one of its addresses (`/services`, `/services/2`, `/services/2/apply`), and pages of prices (`/fees`, `/pricing`, `/visa-types`) do not exist on it at all. The embassy sites that would print a tariff were checked too: the domains `southsudanembassydc.org` and `goss.org` have passed to unrelated owners and serve other people's sites, while `mofa.gov.ss`, `rssembassy.co.ke` and `southsudanembassy.se` do not resolve.

official source · read 2026-08-28

Programme terms change, and the final decision rests with the consulate or the country migration service. The data is collected from official sources on the date shown and is not legal advice.

Residence and citizenship

Documents

Document certification: consular legalisation

The country does not accept apostilles: documents go through consular legalisation in three steps — ministry of justice, foreign ministry, consulate.

Family

Partner

Parents

Partner's parents

Pets

Limit: no limit

Safety

Climate

30J

32F

33M

32A

30M

28J

27J

26A

27S

28O

29N

30D

Quality of life

Grocery basket

Bread, 500 g: $ 0,63
Milk, 1 l: $ 1,21
Eggs, 12: $ 1,58
Chicken breast, 1 kg: $ 4,42
Cheese, 1 kg: $ 7,06
Rice, 1 kg: $ 1,14
Potatoes, 1 kg: $ 0,98
Apples, 1 kg: $ 2,34
Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 l: $ 1,07
Total: $ 20,4

The same set for every country, so the comparison is fair.

Cost of living across the country

Rent, 1 bedroom: $ 202 a month
Rent, 3 bedrooms: $ 448 a month
Utility bills: $ 59,8 a month
Home internet: $ 25,0 a month
Monthly transport pass: $ 12,1 a month
Single transport ticket: $ 0,30
Petrol, litre: $ 1,01
Cold medicine: $ 3,52 for a week

Country averages. City prices, where collected, are shown above and are more precise.

Indicators

Life expectancy: 57,7 years2024
Homicides: 14 per 100k2012 · data lags behind
Road deaths: 23,3 per 100k2021
Unemployment: 12,4 %2023
Unemployment, ages 15–24: 18,5 %2023
Inequality (Gini): 442016 · data lags behind
Health spending per person: $ 72,8 a year
Air pollution, PM2.5: 23,7 µg/m³2023
Access to clean water: 39,8 %2024

Governance

Political stability: low · -1,5
Control of corruption: low · -2,1
Rule of law: low · -2
Government effectiveness: low · -2,2

World Bank estimates on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale, higher is better.

Natural hazards

Earthquakes: 2,7 out of 10
River floods: 7,7 out of 10
Coastal floods: 0 out of 10
Tropical cyclones: 0 out of 10
Droughts: 3,7 out of 10
Tsunamis: 0 out of 10

Each value carries the year it refers to. “Data lags behind” means this country's figure was collected noticeably earlier than the rest. Natural hazards use one 0–10 scale and are meant to be compared against each other.

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Official sources

eVisa South Sudan — Department of E-Visa and Immigration Services, Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passports and Immigration

The only open state node on the subject. It describes the filing procedure and the term — a PDF visa within 72 hours — but prints neither the types of visa, nor the lengths of stay, nor the fee. The service catalogue `immigration.eservices.gov.ss` answers 401 without an account. The embassy domains `southsudanembassydc.org` and `goss.org` have passed to unrelated owners.

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