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Border Security: Immigration Issues In The 108th Congress
White Papers Prior to the terrorist attacks, the priorities for border security policy were beginning to shift from immigration-related issues to facilitating legitimate cross-border commerce. This report provides background information on the main immigration...
[January 21, 2005, 2:00]
Border Security: New Policies And Procedures Are Needed To Fill Gaps In The Visa Revocation Processes
White Papers The National Strategy for Homeland Security calls for preventing the entry of foreign terrorists into our country and using all legal means to identify; halt; and where appropriate, prosecute or bring immigration or other civil charges against...
[December 22, 2004, 2:00]
Border Security: Improvements Needed To Reduce Time Taken To Adjudicate Visas For Science Students And Scholars
White Papers While State has not set specific criteria or time frames for how long the visa process should take, its goal is to adjudicate visas as quickly as possible, consistent with immigration laws and homeland security objectives.
[December 22, 2004, 2:00]
Homeland Security: Risks Facing Key Border And Transportation Security Need To Be Addressed
White Papers US-VISIT (United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology) is a government wide program to enhance national security, facilitate legitimate trade and travel, contribute to the integrity of the U.S.immigration system, and adhere to...
[January 27, 2005, 2:00]
Immigration Reform Key To Border Security
White Papers After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, immigration policies and border security became a top priority for the administration of U.S. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is now...
[December 28, 2004, 2:00]
Government Pushes Forward With E-Borders
News The Home Office has announced that a new UK Border Agency will unite immigration, customs and visa checks, backed by a £1.2bn passenger-screening programme. It warned that the transfer of staff from Revenue & Customs, UKvisas and the Border and...
[November 19, 2007, 12:14]
Biometrics Land At Gatwick
News The Border and Immigration Agency is aiming to use biometric measures for all non-visa nationals arriving from outside the European Economic Area by 2011. Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to...
[October 10, 2007, 8:30]
Biometrics Beyond Borders
News While many countries have beginning to investigate biometric passports and start trials of border control systems, the US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT) programme, is one of the few live deployments and remains the...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
Biometric Checks Get Air-passenger Approval
News More than 3,000 traveller records were transferred to the Border and Immigration Agency background checking system during the trial and 96 percent were processed in fewer than 30 seconds. The miSense technology was developed and delivered by a...
[June 21, 2007, 12:12]
Creating The Department Of Homeland Security: Rethinking The Ends And Means
White Papers First, transferring Immigration and Naturalization Service, Border Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard, and Transportation Security Administration into the proposed department brings the effective oversight of the border and transportation security mission...
[December 28, 2004, 2:00]
Preventing Security And Privacy Attacks On Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs)
White Papers Congress resolved to bring about a major overhaul of the immigration process at border posts by passing the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002. A detailed security analysis is conducted of these specifications, and the...
[March 24, 2006, 0:01]
Border Security In The Wake Of September 11th
White Papers This brief and preliminary article reviews some of the main issues and changes emerging in U.S.border security and immigration policy in the wake of the terrorist attacks on America. The analysis proceeds by placing recent developments in the...
[December 28, 2004, 2:00]
Homeland Security: Management Challenges Remain In Transforming Immigration Programs
White Papers The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assumed responsibility for the immigration enforcement and services programs of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in 2003. The three DHS bureaus with primary responsibility for...
[December 22, 2004, 2:00]
ObjectVideo Case Study: U.S. Customs & Border Protection
White Papers Customs needed to optimize its use of resources - across unmanned checkpoints and major ports of entry - and establish a more effective security operation to combat potential terrorist threats, illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
[August 11, 2008, 1:20]
Border Security Going Digital
White Papers This document provides the details of how THE Department of Immigration will build a giant database to store digital photographs, fingerprints and other biometric identifiers from visa applicants and immigration detainees as part of a multimillion...
[August 6, 2008, 1:18]
The Department Of Homeland Security: An Alternative That Will Work
White Papers Many of these agencies, like the Immigration and Naturalization Service, are in disrepair. Among those agencies that share responsibility for border security, linkages are poor - or nonexistent. Homeland security begins with a system that...
[December 28, 2004, 2:00]
Positive Identification And Access Control
White Papers Working closely with the Chilean Immigration Police, Unisys is assisting with a biometric security solution that addresses forgery problems with travel documents and movement of criminals across borders all the while speeding up airport queues.
[June 2, 2007, 1:00]
American Association For The Advancement Of Science: Science And Technology Policy Colloquium
White Papers Admission to the country is determined by the immigration border inspectors of the new Department of Homeland Security, to which this responsibility was transferred by the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
[December 28, 2004, 2:00]
Border Security
White Papers Machine-readable passports with biometric identifiers will be required for countries in the visa-waiver program, enabling immigration inspectors to compare information on a travel document with digitized codes on that same document.
[December 1, 2004, 23:00]
Terrorism: Automated Lookout Systems And Border Security Options And Issues
White Papers The State Department and the federal inspection services, principally the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. While automated lookout books are an integral part of the border security equation, other measures can be taken to...
[January 21, 2005, 2:00]
