Homeland Security Today: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a new report it “was able to confirm departures of over 99 percent of nonimmigrant visitors scheduled to depart in Fiscal Year 2015,” and that that number is continuing to grow.”
According to DHS’s Entry/Exit Overstay Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 -- which provides data on departures and overstays, by country, for foreign visitors to the United States who were lawfully admitted into the United States for specific, temporary purposes, but overstayed their lawful admission period – of the nearly 45 million nonimmigrant visitor admissions through air or sea ports of entry expected to depart in FY 2015, DHS determined 527,127 individuals overstayed their admission, for a total overstay rate of 1.17 percent.
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