IBMATA and the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process explore options for public and private sector collaboration to prevent the smuggling and trafficking of human beings. Download the pdf here.
The edited volume, North America 2.0: Forging a Continental Future, has now been released by the Canada and Mexico Institutes of the Woodrow Wilson Center in concert with co-sponsors at Harvard’s Belfer Center Homeland Security Project, Aspen Mexico and the University of Victoria. You can find the publication available online here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/north-america-20-forging-continental-future.
Our long-awaited Asia Summit finally took place in Singapore in September 2022 after being postponed in February 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic. We were delighted to finally be back in Asia and pick up the conversation where we left off after our 2018 New Delhi event! Thank you to ICA for hosting us and your continued support.
An Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) is not a visa; it’s a simpler, quicker, and mostly automated process by which non-visa travelers declare their identity information before leaving home. A concept that began with the Australian ETA and U.S. ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) has been surprisingly slow to catch on in other countries,
Entrust has announced the successful conclusion of their participation in the Chain of Trust (CoT) Pilot, a six-month pilot project led by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). CoT was tested between September 2021 and March 2022 and facilitated the border clearance of a small group of Canadian volunteer flight crew participants at Toronto Pearson
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The IBMATA (Europe) Summit came home to London for the first time in July 2022, to a huge welcome from the British Government. The event was opened by Kevin Foster MP, Minister for Safe and Legal Migration and Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency of the United Kingdom.
CBP, Carnival Cruise Line introduces facial biometrics at Port of Baltimore U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with Carnival Cruise Line, expanded the use of facial biometrics into the debarkation process at the Port of Baltimore, becoming the latest seaport to modernize efforts to revolutionize cruise travel. “As cruise travel resumes around
