US Virgin Islands
South Sudan passportEdit check
Visa, stay set by the visa
Before you travel: you need a visa from an embassy or consulate.
How long you may stay is set by your visa.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions1 to check
- The suspension applies only to nationals who are outside the United States on the applicable effective date and who do not have a valid visa on that date.
Source & evidence Read the original words
Official wording
I have determined to fully restrict and limit the entry of nationals of 7 additional countries: Burkina Faso, Laos, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Syria. These restrictions distinguish between, but apply to both, the entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants. I have also determined to fully restrict and limit the entry of individuals using travel documents issued or endorsed by the Palestinian Authority (PA). … This proclamation is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on January 1, 2026.
Aevamo’s reading
Section 212.1 is the DHS regulation that imposes the visa-and-passport requirement on each arriving nonimmigrant alien and then enumerates the classes that do not have to present a visa. The VWP list and the 212(f) proclamations operate as exceptions or overlays on that command; they do not replace it.
Subsection (h) plus each country's (ii) and the PA paragraph are the operative full bars for these issuers, including Palestinian Authority travel documents mapped to PSE. 8 CFR 212.1 cannot record a 2026 proclamation.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
eCFR Title 8 displayed as of 2026-08-18, last amended 2026-08-11; DHS VWP page last updated 2025-05-02; Proclamation 10998 effective 2026-01-01; Palau Compact Pub. L. 99-658 (1986-11-14).
US Virgin Islands follows United States
US territory; follows US visa/ESTA rules exactly — VWP/ESTA valid; other nationals need a US B1/B2 visa. Verified: cibtvisas.com, stthomasairport.com.
(38) The term "United States", except as otherwise specifically herein provided, when used in a geographical sense, means the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.Open the source document
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
The rule is one instrument covering 1 places, so this answer is the same for United States .
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.