Nations the White House is targeting for visa overstay rates account for small number of violators, omit Brazil, Venezuela, China
Passengers arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport in June 2017. The Trump administration wants to crack down on those who overstay their business and tourist visas. The White House shifted its focus this week from the surge of families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who arrive in the United States legally and then illegally remain in the country after their visas expire.
Trump gave the State Department four months to consult with Homeland Security officials and the attorney general to recommend sanctions, which he said could include suspending or limiting visas for those countries. Chad’s 30.8 percent overstay rate amounted to 165 people. Yemen, with the third-highest rate, had 518 overstayers.
In his order, Trump also instructed the secretaries of state and homeland security to find ways to reduce all overstays, including by student visa holders, visa waiver program participants. In the B1/B2 visa category, overstays rose slightly from about 301,000 in 2017 to 305,000 last year, for an overstay rate of 2 percent.
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