The new fees provoked a flurry of complaints, especially from the aid agencies operating in the country.
South Sudan will review the recent increases in the work permit fee for foreigners.
Cabinet Affairs minister Elia Lomoro Tuesday announced that the government had already formed a committee headed by the Finance ministry to re-analyse the order.
The new charges provoked a flurry of complaints, especially from the aid agencies operating in the country.
Dr Lomoro said the committee reviewing the directive was ready to submit its finding, which he added would enable the government to take an alternative step.
“The committee reviewing the order has met and the information I have from the Ministry of Finance is that they were ready to submit their report.
"We will now have the report and revisit where we can and develop a mechanism on how to address the matter,” he said.
The minister pointed out that Juba was benchmarking the concerns raised by several aid agencies, but said the matter would be sorted out soon to safeguard the mutual relations between the young nation and the humanitarian community.
Our colleagues
“We are benchmarking the challenges so that we are within the context of the region and we have requested our colleagues in the region to give us a little time to address the matter,” he said.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Mr Eugene Owusu, underlined that most of the foreigners working in South Sudan were aid workers.
He said increasing work permit fees for aid workers was unfair since they were delivering assistance to South Sudanese citizens, who currently relied on humanitarian aid to survive.
