Foreign nationals overstaying in India
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2014
The Times of India, Dec 23 2014
A STAY TOO LONG
It is easy to assume that majority of foreigners overstaying in India after their visa expired would be from the neighbourhood: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. This notion is only partially true. Of the 25,209 people who entered India on valid travel documents but were caught overstaying in 2014, the majority had come from Pakistan. US nationals, surprisingly, made up the second-biggest chunk of such travellers. They were followed by Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis and Nigerians. In the three years between 2011 and 2013, over 22,000 such travellers have been deported.
Pakistanis, Bangladeshis overstaying in India
2014-17
In 3 yrs, 250 Pakistanis deported, Mar 30, 3017: The Times of India
The government deported over 250 Pakistani and 1,750 Bangladeshi nationals in the last three years, the home ministry informed Rajya Sabha.
MoS for home Kiren Rijiju said some Bangladeshi migrants “may be prone to Islamic fundamentalism and become easy prey for militancy , communal conflicts and antiIndia elements like Pakistani agency ISI“. In the last three years more than 250 Pakistani nationals and 1,750 Bangladeshis were deported to their countries after due process of identification, he said.
He said illegal immigrants entered the country without valid travel documents in clandestine and surreptitious manner. “There is no accurate data with regard to number of Bangladeshi citizens illegally residing in the country ,“ he said. Rijiju said many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants were found to be involved in cases relating to theftburglary , smuggling, human trafficking and drugs trafficking etc.
