Last year the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) released information that showed that over 62,000 non-citizens were living unlawfully in Australia as of June 30, 2014.
A breakdown of the numbers revealed that there was 62,100 people who had stayed in Australia after their visas expired. There were 44, 840 of those who were visiting. There were a further 10,060 that were students and 3,770 that were temporary residents.
The table below lists the number of unlawful non-citizens by their country of nationality.
Estimated number of Unlawful Non‐Citizens (UNC) Table:
Country of Citizenship | Total |
China | 7 020 |
Malaysia | 6 980 |
United States of America | 5 240 |
United Kingdom | 3 660 |
India | 3 010 |
Indonesia | 2 860 |
South Korea | 2 690 |
Philippines | 2 370 |
Vietnam | 2 150 |
Thailand | 2 050 |
Germany | 1 460 |
France | 1 340 |
Japan | 1 330 |
Ireland | 1 170 |
Tonga | 1 150 |
Fiji | 990 |
Canada | 990 |
Nepal | 970 |
Italy | 770 |
Other | 13 880 |