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Pulling on the Thread of the VISA Bureaucracy
THREATS WATCH.org ^ | March 28, 2010 at 11:36 AM | By Jay Fraser

Posted on 03/30/2010 2:56:50 AM PDT by Cindy

SNIPPET: "Following the attacks of September 11th one of the immediate concerns was the millions of people who had entered the United States with legal temporary VISAS and had "somehow" become lost or misplaced.

This was known as the VISA overstay problem. It is still estimated that as many as 30% of the people living illegally in this country have overstayed their temporary VISAS (nearly 200 million temporary visitors come to this country each year).

Today, the problem of VISA Overstay remains unsolved .

Last year, 39 million foreigners entered the United States, and using paper logs, DHS has confirmed that 92.5 percent have left the country. Of the remaining 2.9 million foreign visitors, an estimated 200,000 are believed to have intentionally overstayed their visas. Over all, immigration officials said, about 40 percent of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed."

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TOPICS: History; Reference; Travel
KEYWORDS: overstay; temporaryvisas; visa; visaoverstay; visas

1 posted on 03/30/2010 2:56:51 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Thanks, Washington DC has been negligent on evicting this millions of people who had entered the United States with legal temporary VISAS and had “somehow” become lost or misplaced.

This was known as the VISA overstay problem.


2 posted on 03/30/2010 3:17:01 AM PDT by Son House ("Warning! Warning!" "That does not compute" "Danger, Will Robinson!""Oh, the pain...the pain!")
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To: Cindy

Last year, ...an estimated 200,000 are believed to have intentionally overstayed their visas.

^
And it only took 20 terrorist to hijack 4 jets, that 1000X of potential


3 posted on 03/30/2010 3:18:47 AM PDT by Son House ("Warning! Warning!" "That does not compute" "Danger, Will Robinson!""Oh, the pain...the pain!")
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