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Overstay
Definition:
(v. t.) To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time.
Example Sentences:
(1) His parents had overstayed the family visas they acquired as students to travel to the US from South Korea in 1981.
(2) However, in return she wanted India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , to help with efforts to send home Indian nationals who have overstayed their visas and are living illegally in the UK.
(3) No 10 said it was also closing a loophole whereby someone that has worked in the UK and paid national insurance could continue to claim benefits even if they overstayed their visa.
(4) • Those who successfully claim asylum after travelling through a safe country, or those who overstay a visa, only being given a minimum stay of protection and not having an automatic right to stay.
(5) A further 57 were visa overstayers, 96 were asylum seekers who arrived by boat, and five asylum seekers who arrived by plane.
(6) Will they apologise to the "suspected visa overstayer", whose badly pixellated and easily identifiable photograph they published to the world, if it turns out he was merely part of their huge backlog of applications?
(7) He maintains that 40% of illegal immigrants with visas overstay their visits.
(8) Theresa May's plans for a £3,000 cash bond to deter "high risk" Asian and African short-term visitors from overstaying in Britain are being hastily rewritten after Nick Clegg declined to sign off the details of a pilot scheme due to start in November.
(9) I found that many of the non-EEA spouses refused residence cards were overstayers," said Vine.
(10) It advises drivers who accidentally or unintentionally overstay the free parking period and believe they have mitigating circumstances to contact the duty manager before leaving the site.
(11) More does need to be done to stop people overstaying illegally when their visas run out – whether they arrived on student visas, work visas or tourist visas,” Cooper said.
(12) "This summer the UKBA launched a UK-wide operation to remove overstayers and we have already seen 1,800 removals since the campaign started," Green said.
(13) But ministers say there is a loophole for migrants who entered illegally or have overstayed their leave and are not therefore subject to current conditions of stay.
(14) Since 2008, more immigrants have overstayed their visas than have crossed the border legally.
(15) Physicians performances were measured on the basis of the quality of medical care provided, the appropriateness of hospital admissions, and the appropriateness of hospital stays, including understays and overstays.
(16) The prime minister’s decision to demand to return Indians overstaying their visas received a sceptical response from some of the Indian journalists covering the event.
(17) Borrego and her family moved from Mexico to Houston in 2003 but overstayed their visas.
(18) To try to find the less than one tenth of a percent of the population who they suspect have overstayed?
(19) The 150,000 cases in this previously undisclosed backlog are a separate group from those who entered Britain illegally or who overstayed their visas, or who are failed asylum seekers.
(20) Instead they enter Britain legally and openly on flights into Heathrow airport on visas that they then breach by overstaying.