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Title 8, Aliens and NationalityRelease 119-110

§1376 Data on Nonimmigrant Overstay Rates

Title 8 › CHAPTER 12 — IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › SUBCHAPTER II — IMMIGRATION › Part IX — Miscellaneous › § 1376

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must begin, within 180 days after April 27, 1998, a program to count, for each fiscal year, how many nonimmigrant visa holders (the different nonimmigrant visa categories) had their authorized stay end during the previous fiscal year but stayed in the United States anyway. By June 30, 1999, and by June 30 each year after, the Attorney General must send Congress a yearly report with numeric estimates, for each country, of how many people from that country were counted as overstays for the prior fiscal year.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1376

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(a)Collection of data
Not later than the date that is 180 days after April 27, 1998, the Attorney General shall implement a program to collect data, for each fiscal year, regarding the total number of aliens within each of the classes of nonimmigrant aliens described in section 1101(a)(15) of this title whose authorized period of stay in the United States terminated during the previous fiscal year, but who remained in the United States notwithstanding such termination.
(b)Annual report
Not later than June 30, 1999, and not later than June 30 of each year thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit an annual report to the Congress providing numerical estimates, for each country for the preceding fiscal year, of the number of aliens from the country who are described in subsection (a).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and

Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service,

Transfer of Functions

, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1376

Title 8, Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110