It is also possible to determine how many people overstay their visas. In 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) determined that there were nearly 45 million non-immigrant admissions to the United States for business or pleasure through air or sea ports of entry who were expected to depart in FY2015. Of this number, DHS calculated a total overstay rate of 1.17 percent, or around half a million individuals. The overstay rate was especially high for visitors from Afghanistan (10%), Bhutan (24%), Georgia (12%), Iraq (6%), Sudan (7%), and Yemen (6%). It was 0.4 percent for the UK, 0.7
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