H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of visa population in U.S.

Re:H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of v... by arcticbull on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:20PM (#23753886)

Strictly speaking that's insufficient as crossing from the US into Canada by land doesn't invalidate your I-94. They do need to join it against a bunch of other data -- which they do have.

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Re:H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of v... by refurb on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:28PM (#23753949)

Exactly. They have the data, but they’d need to link it to a few other sources for it to be complete.

The US, unlike Europe (at least in my experience) doesn’t check passports on the way out. They rely on flight manifests or information from Canadian authorities on who has exited.

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Re:H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of v... by jen20 on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:50PM (#23754108)

> unlike Europe

Unlike the Schengen zone, certainly, but some European countries also do not check passports on exit (the UK is a good example).

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Re:H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of v... by asdff on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:34AM (#23756343)

Bosnia just waived me on when I was crossing through from Croatia. Checking a whole buss must have seemed like too much effort

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Re:H-1B: Government issues first-ever official estimate of v... by refurb on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:42AM (#23759749)

Yup. It was Schengen in my case.

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