DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
INSPECTIONS REPORT
Immigration and Naturalization Service Monitoring of Nonimmigrant Overstays
September 1997
Report Number I-97-08
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dimensions of the Overstay Problem Are Difficult to Determine
INS Study of Legalized Alien Population
INS Estimates of the Illegal Alien Population
OIG Review of Apprehension Reports
OIG Review of Adjustment of Status Applications
INS Has No Complete and Reliable System to Track Overstays
INS Has No Specific Overstay Enforcement Program
Identifying, Locating and Arresting Individual Overstays
Lack of Detention Capacity Severely Constrains Enforcement Effectiveness
INS Needs to Analyze Available Data and Develop an Overstay Enforcement Strategy
INS Needs More Reliable and Complete Overstay Data to Meet its Responsibilities
INS Needs to Provide the State Department With More Overstay Data to Better Screen Visa Applicants
INS Is Unable to Perform its Responsibilities Under the Visa Waiver Pilot Program
Compliance with the 1996 Act Will Require System Improvements
INS Can and Should Improve its Departure Data
Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix I Immigration and Naturalization Service Response to Draft Report - NOT INCLUDED IN THIS HYPERTEXT VERSION.
Appendix II Office of the Inspector General's Analysis of Management's Response
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