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October 7, 2020
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From: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Subject: Global: What Do Visa-Overstay Rates Really Tell Us?

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Insights drawn weekly from Karin Fischer’s global-education newsletter, latitude(s). Subscribe here.

The Trump administration has has proposed limiting students from roughly 60 countries to two-year stays in the United States because of high visa-overstay rates.

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First Thought

Insights drawn weekly from Karin Fischer’s global-education newsletter, latitude(s). Subscribe here.

The Trump administration has has proposed limiting students from roughly 60 countries to two-year stays in the United States because of high visa-overstay rates.

Critics have have challenged the approach of using overstay rates, noting that countries with tiny numbers of visitors to the U.S. can have exceptionally high rates, while top sending countries often have far larger numbers of actual overstays.

But new research questions the validity of government overstay rates in the first place. According to analysts at the National Foundation for American Policy, the overstay rates should not be seen as hard counts but rather as estimates of those individuals whom the government could not identify as having left the United States. Karin unpacks what the rates can really tell us in latitude(s).

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