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The New York Times ran an article on Sunday, titled “U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas“
This can’t surprise anyone who’s visited the United States.
When you front up to Immigration, you’re photographed and fingerprinted, questioned and sent on your way with a stamp in your passport and a small stub of green paper.
When you leave the country, you hand in the small stub of green paper to the airline’s check-in agent
Unfortunately, not every does.
Or the small square stub of green paper gets lost.
Or the border official at a land crossing doesn’t ask for it.
So it doesn’t really surprise me that they lost track of almost 3 million visitors last year.
And that’s not counting the Visa Waiver visitors.
Add another 3 million……
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