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"Three in four of the 58,400 visa overstayers came on tourist or holiday-working visas; one in seven arrived as students and one in 15 disappeared after being granted temporary residency.

Do they have tax file numbers? Access to Medicare? etc.

I knew a lady from SA who found it impossible to survive outside the system after overstaying and eventually tried her luck in the UK. Had to survive here in the black economy and had a gall bladder op that crippled her financially.