https://qz.com/india/1382738/thousands-of-indians-overstay-in-the-us-on-f-m-j-visas/
Thousands of Indians are living in the US on expired visas
More Indians tend to overstay their US visa validity than nationals of any other country.
The highest number of visa overstays in the “other” category in 2017 came from India, according to an analysis of the department of homeland security’s latest entry/exit overstay report by Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a non-profit, which favours immigration reduction. This group mostly comprises guest workers or other employment-related visas. A few “pre-immigrant” categories such as fiancées are also included.
“Ignore CIS. They start with the presumption that the only cure for an overstay is immediate deportation. That’s not the law and never has been,” said Hassan Ahmad, a Northern Virginia-based immigration lawyer who serves on the boards of various state and local agencies and nonprofits advising on immigration policy. “They further attempt to overstate the numbers by ignoring the actual numbers of lawful admissions, and then blame DHS for understating the ‘problem’.”
Ahmad further added, “it is not surprising CIS takes such a hard-line view, since their policies are informed by white nationalist ideologies such as eugenics and population control.” CIS has been classified as an anti-immigrant hate group and has been known to hype the criminality of immigrants, among other things.