Which Foreign Citizens Overstay Their Visas Most Often?

Keeping track of people legally entering and leaving the United States is a formidable task. Nevertheless, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released figures on people who overstay their visas and other legal forms of admissions. Total overstays for 2016 stood at close to 740,000 people, of which up to 630,000 were suspected to still be in the country.
Canadians and Mexicans are the biggest groups of people with non-immigrant admissions to the United States that overstayed their lawfully authorized time period. However, the DHS only counts in arrivals and departures by sea and air as stated in its report.
Unlike all other countries, the overwhelming majority of visitors from Canada or Mexico enter the United States by land. ‘The collection of departure information in the land environment is more difficult than in the air and sea’, the DHS writes. While many Canadians or Mexicans could fly in ore arrive by boat they might leave the U. S. across the land border.

This post was published at The Burning Platform on May 27, 2017.