{"id":6395,"date":"2014-04-17T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:05:01","slug":"dhs-estimates-of-legal-temporary-residents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/04\/17\/dhs-estimates-of-legal-temporary-residents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Estimates of Legal Temporary Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6403 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"DHS Estimates of Legal Temporary Residents | ImmigrationReform.com\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/world_population_800x600.jpg\" width=\"389\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/world_population_800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/world_population_800x600-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/world_population_800x600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/world_population_800x600-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released in February an <a title=\"estimate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/ois_ni_pe_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">estimate<\/a> of the number of legal foreign temporary residents. The average number for the year ending June 30, 2012 was 1.9 million persons, most of whom were in the U.S. either to work or to study.<\/p>\n<p>The report explains that the number of foreign temporary residents can only be estimated because, \u201cBased on historical trends, departure records are eventually collected for 75\u201380 percent of all resident nonimmigrant visits, but fewer than 50 percent are collected in the same year as the arrival.\u201d Thus, according to DHS, it does not have departure information on an estimated 20 to 25 percent of these foreigners entering with visas. The absence of reliable data on the departure of temporary residents reveals a loophole by which legally entering foreigners may stay illegally beyond the period of legal residence without much concern about DHS coming to look for them \u2013 given the fact that DHS does not know if they have stayed illegally. Of course, the \u201cprioritization\u201d policies of the Obama administration also mean that foreign resident visa overstayers are not a target for DHS\u2019 enforcement branch.<\/p>\n<p>The DHS estimate provides some interesting statistics: the largest share of the residents (840,000 \u2013 45%) was workers and family; the second largest share was students (720,000 &#8211; 38%); and exchange visitors accounted for 230,000 (12%). Exchange visitors and students also are allowed to take jobs. 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The average number for the year ending June 30, 2012 was 1.9 million persons, most of whom were in the U.S. either to work or to study. The report explains that the number of foreign temporary<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/04\/17\/dhs-estimates-of-legal-temporary-residents-2\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[261,985],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19924,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/19924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}