More than 30,000 Indians overstayed in United States last year

More than 30,000 Indians overstayed in the United States last year, a new report has stated. The report also said that a total of 1.4 million people from India travelled to America in 2016 on various visas.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday submitted an an official report on departures and overstays to the Congress on foreign visitors who entered the US on various visas as non-immigrant visitors. The foreign visitors in the report included businessmen, tourists, students, and visitors exchange.

The report, which covered about 96 percent of the total non-immigrant visitors, stated that more than 50 million non-immigrants were expected to leave the US in 2016. However, out of these, around 739,478 overstayed their admission, resulting in a total overstay rate of 1.47 per cent, according to PTI.

The DHS report said that out of more than 739,000 overstays, at least 628,799 were suspected "in-country" overstays, which means that there is no record of these visitors leaving America. The rest of the foreign visitors reportedly left the country after the expiry of their lawful admission periods, which is called out-of-country overstay. 

According to the figures in the report, more than 1.4 million Indians who visited the US were expected to leave the nation last year, however more than 30,000 of them overstayed. Reports state that out of these 30,000, a bit more than 6,000 Indians left the US after their visas expired.

More than one million Indians who came to the US in 2016 on business, for tourism purposes or for pleasure were expected to leave the country in 2016, but out of these 17,763 have overstayed.

Among students, around 9,897 Indian students or exchange scholars were expected to leave the country by the end of the year, out of which 4,575 students overstayed their legal period of visit to the US.