The J1 visa category for nannies has three times the overstay rate of any other category of temporary visa.
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Bannon`s War RoomAug 17, 2026
The claim that the J-1 category has three times the overstay rate of any other temporary visa category is contradicted by the DHS FY2023 overstay data as reported by NFAP: the M visa suspected in-country overstay rate (4.02%) exceeds the J rate (3.26%), and the sources give no nanny-specific overstay rate at all.
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What was said
… That's not counting any family they bring with them. About 100,000 of them were working these summer jobs. Another 32,000 were working as camp counselors. There's more than 10,000 opers working as nannies every year, and this category has three times the overstay rate of any other category of temporary visa, so that's a significant risk as well, contributing to illegal immigration. So, these are jobs that there are Americans who would like to do, and the State Department has the authority to simply get rid of these categories. …
Bannon`s War Room · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The FY2023 suspected in-country overstay rate for M visas was 4.02% and for J visas 3.26%, so J is not the highest category and not three times every other category.[3]
Contradicts. The DHS FY2023 overstay report gives a combined F, M and J suspected in-country overstay rate of 2.86%, and a VWP rate of 0.62%, so no source shows the J rate at three times the rate of every other category.[1]
Context. No source gives an overstay rate specific to J-1 nannies; the available DHS data covers J visas as a whole, so the nanny-specific part of the claim is unaddressed.[1][2]
Context. The CIS report (unrated, published the day after the post) says J-1 has one of the highest overstay rates among entry categories, which is consistent with a high rate but does not support a three-times-every-category superlative.[4]
Sources
4 sources: 2 primary, 1 not rated, 1 rated low
- 1Entry/Exit Overstay Reportdhs.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2Overstay Enforcementcongress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3National Foundation for American Policynfap.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4J-1 Visa Program: A Cheap Labor Programcis.org · rated low for factual reporting by Media Bias/Fact Check · cited for: context
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