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Many people enter Australia under visas that are valid for a specific time period - as students, tourists, working holidaymakers and so on. Overstayers are people who have entered Australia with valid papers, but whose visas have subsequently expired.
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An overstayer is someone who remains in a country after their visa or permit has expired. Overstaying is considered a violation of Immigration laws and can lead to legal consequences, including deportation or restrictions on future travel to that country.
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Can an overstayer get us citizenship?
Violating US laws make it difficult for you to even stay in the country; let alone citizenship.
I married an overstayer in nz?
I married my Samoan fiancee in 2005. Little did I know he was an overstayer. We thought it would be easy since we were married and all we needed was to file in papers. While the papers were lodged , I realised I was expecting. After three months , immigration authorities surprised us to tears. my husband was deported I screamed telling them that we had a child how could they do this. He said he would wait 5 years and then come. My life has turned upside down. I was told getting a lawyer is expensive and with no guarantee. NZIS do not want overstayers to use marriage as a convenience, so it is painfully hard. Do not marry an overstayer. I will update later.
If a 19 year old guy comes on a student visa but over stays can he become a citizen by taking citizenship classes or does he have to go back?
A green card (also called permanent residency) is the middle step to citizenship. However, overstaying is an action that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly I.N.S.) takes seriously. Deportation proceedings will usually be conducted against an overstayer and he or she would not be given an opportunity to apply for a green card, nor would this person be allowed to re-enter the US until a period of 10 years has transpired. Check out the Web site for the USCIS at http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm and click on "Immigration Laws, Regulations, and Guides." This is certainly serious business these days. "Key elements in exercising those responsibilities include: identifying and removing all high-risk illegal alien fugitives and absconders; ensuring that those aliens who have already been identified as criminals are expeditiously removed; and to develop and maintain a robust removals program with the capacity to remove all final order cases - thus precluding growth in the illegal alien absconder population." Quoted from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Web site: http://www.ice.gov/graphics/dro/index.htm
