Visa Overstay Tracking - Progress and Pitfalls

Visa Overstay Tracking - Progress and Pitfalls

Testimony by Edward Alden

March 2010

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Edward Alden testifies before the House Committee on Homeland Security on the obstacles preventing the U.S. government from accurately identifying those who come lawfully to the United States but then overstay their terms of entry.

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