Unless there’s some method for you to help them become eligible to work in your country, you legally need to put the company’s safety first. If you give different reason to hide things you could be exposing your company to liability, so the safest option for both the company and for the applicant is for you to straight up ghost them.

I really hope you mean to say “hiring” instead of “hitting”

The simple answer is just don’t hire them, and don’t give any reason.