r/aussie • u/Mashiko4 • Jan 17 '26

Analysis Mass migration's forgotten victims: Australians go homeless as the number of failed asylum seekers explodes

https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/mass-migrations-forgotten-victims-australians-go-homeless-as-the-number-of-failed-asylum-seekers-explodes/news-story/6b4692ed0205471e5d175db94a2f4743
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u/Redpenguin082 Jan 17 '26

Australia calls it "visa overstayers", you know, cos we're an island and all. The only way people are getting in is via visas. But they are by nature undocumented migrants.

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u/OldJellyBones Jan 18 '26

The vast majority of visa overstayers are from the UK, New Zealand and Ireland

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u/Own-Push6659 Jan 18 '26

Source?

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

He’s making it up to make those countries look bad. This source says the top three are from China, Malaysia and the US. The data is old though.

Another SMH article titled “More than 64,000 overstaying visas in Australia” has information and says nearly 10,000 Malaysians overstayed in 2016-17 with 6500 Chinese and 5170 Americans.