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Run Off! - Firemon - 05-17-2019
The United States Homeland Security has reported that a total of 10,626 Jamaicans overstayed their United States (US) non-immigrant tourism/business (B1/B2) visas between October 1, 2017, and September 30, 2018.
Over the period mentioned, 312,667 Jamaicans were granted entry to the US and were expected to depart the country during that window of time. But the homeland department has stated it has no departure records for 10,242 Jamaicans (now classified as suspected in-country overstays), and 384 Jamaicans left the US after their authorized period of admission expired (out-of-country overstays).
The agency said that based on the above figures, Jamaica has a total overstay rate of 3.40 per cent and a suspected in-country overstay rate of 3.28 per cent. For the 2017 period, 1,073 fewer Jamaicans were reported as overstaying their visas.
This practice has long been a trend in Jamaica and other Caribbean countries. Citizens intentionally and illegally overstay their visit to the US (and other nations) with the hopes of gaining a better quality of life. Many try to find work “under-the-table” while others will attempt to marry a US citizen in order to become permanent residents in the country. With the aggressive clamp-down of undocumented immigrants in the United States, however, these citizens now face being arrested, charged and detained and then deported.
https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/caribbean-breaking-news-featured/run-off-10000-jamaicans-overstayed-their-us-non-immigrant-visas-in-2018/
RE: Run Off! - oldtimer - 05-17-2019
It's not only the US it's Canada as well. If you sign up for a sponsership you are on the hook for 10 years . There were a lot of Jamaican that came to Nova Scotia to work on farms and orchards . To come now they need a bank account and at least 1/3 the money is on hold until baby mothers are paid . Where we had 1000's we now have 100's. Some have been coming for 20-30 years and are the very best . About 3 years ago MacLean's magazine ( Canada's Time magazine ) said that 46% of the Jamaicans in Canada are on welfare .