Border Management

Border Management GIFGovernments rely on a two-step process to secure their borders:

  1. Issuing a visa or waiver for admissible persons
  2. Performing security checks at international borders to ensure inadmissible persons are blocked entry

Maintaining the delicate balance between identifying inadmissible travelers (e.g., those on watch-lists) and keeping passenger traffic and cargo flowing smoothly is a huge challenge.

SITA Border Management is the industry’s only full solution to address border issues on the global level.

SITA know-how

Increasing passenger numbers bring increasing security concerns. Governments need to deploy secure and effective border control systems while meeting efficient traffic-flow objectives at land borders, including rapid immigration clearance.

SITA specialists bring more than 100 years of aggregated experience in supporting the needs of governments worldwide. Our Border Management solution capitalizes on this experience, as well as our unique know-how.

Border Management can be tailored to fit your needs. It can include:

  • Collecting and processing passenger data
  • Providing biometric and identity management
  • Integrating major border management systems

Border Management also provides decision-making tools that enable all of the disparate parties involved in the border-management process to work collaboratively and make informed, coordinated decisions.

Benefits

Border Management provides the following benefits.

  • Cost-effective security
  • Reduce or eliminate operational and/or cost implications
  • Expedite passenger check-in process
  • Reduce or eliminate fines levied by U.S. and other governments

Features

Border Management includes the following features.

  • The only full global solution for airlines, airports and governments
  • Single interface
  • Fully scalable to meet specific needs
  • Simultaneous connections to many travel hosts across the SITA network for acquiring and processing passenger data
  • The only operational interactive advance passenger processing (APP) system on the market in iBorders APP
  • Biographic and biometric capabilities with iBorders BioThenticate

SITA iBorders Government Gateway

Designed for airlines, alliances, service providers and ground handlers, iBorders Government Gateway offers a range of services that acquire data from Reservations and Departure Control Systems and normalise, check, filter and submit that data in the formats and at the time required by multiple governments. Services include:

  • Passenger Name Record (PNR) gateway services (such as the PNR Push / Filter service to Canada)
  • Advance Passenger Processing (APP) gateway services (such as the Advance Passenger Information Quick Query (AQQ) gateway service to the USA)
  • API gateway services (such as the UK and India APIS services)
  • Combination gateway services (such as SecureFlight to the USA, which uses a combination of PNR and APP gateway services)

In short, with iBorders Government Gateway, SITA can manage all of your passenger data provisioning requirements to any and all governments on your route network.

SITA iBorders BioThenticate

This flexible, multi-biometric platform can verify a person's identity using a variety of anatomical characteristics, including: finger, hand, face, retina and iris.

Standard functionality includes:

  • Extended biometric enrollment capacity, including dedicated enrollment stations, biometric smart card production, and online passenger vetting by the government
  • A range of self-service gates optimized for either high-security or maximum passenger throughput, in line with operational requirements from immigration authorities and airlines
  • Advanced server functionality, including security, connectivity and detailed operational reporting, allowing all stakeholders to optimize their specific processes without compromise