Immigration and Nationality DirectorateImmigration and Nationality Directorate

Registered Traveller Programmes

GLOBAL BORDER SECURITY CONFERENCE San Antonio, TEXAS 8 – 10 May 2007

Peter GrahamDirector of Special Projects

UK Border Control

‘e-BORDERS' and other EU initiatives

Border and Immigration Agency

More people, more quickly, more securely2

E-Borders DVD

More people, more quickly, more securely3

The challenge

• Increase in International Travel

• Larger Aircraft = more people arriving at the same time

• Increased security concerns

• Organised crime

…more people, more quickly, more securely…

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Traditional approach

Security v Facilitation the needle in the haystack

Security v Facilitation the needle in the haystack

• Greater security has traditionally meant longer

queues

• Passengers checked/interviewed on arrival at

port/airport

• Blanket approach to screening/identity management

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Progress to date

• Introduced in December 2004 in

partnership with IBM

• Pre-screening (20million+) passengers

before arrival using API/PNR data

• Successful testing of Govt and Carrier systems and

processes integration

Project SemaphoreProject Semaphore

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Progress to date

Project IRISProject IRIS

• Introduced July 2005

• Registered Traveller Programme

• Currently deployed at 8 UK Airport Terminals

• 65,000 + people enrolled by end March,

• 250,000 + barrier crossings by end March

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Current situation

• Currently in procurement

• 2 short listed bidders

• Contract award expected late summer 2007

E-BordersE-Borders

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Key EU initiatives

• EURODAC- stores fingerprints of persons refused entry or who have claimed asylum

• VISA INFORMATION SYSTEM

-A system for the exchange of visa application data including biometrics Between Member States

• BIOMETRIC MATCHING SYSTEM

- For use across other systems where there is a legal base

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Key EU initiatives

• SCHENGEN INFORMATION SYSTEM II - Will replace existing watchlist functionality and integrate new Member

States

• REGISTERED TRAVELLER STUDY

- using biometrics to facilitate trusted travellers, automate arrival/exit

• BI-LATERAL REGISTERED TRAVELLER TRIALS

- UK/Netherlands in discussion

• FRONTEX - European Agency for the Management of Operational Co-

operation at the External Borders

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Future Trends

• Collaboration

• Identity Management and biometric technology

• New technology

• A World Immigration Organisation ?