Ministério da Administração Interna - Ministry of Internal Affairs

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1 Ministério da Administração Interna - Ministry of Internal Affairs SERVIÇO DE ESTRANGEIROS E FRONTEIRAS - ALIENS AND BORDER SERVICE Luísa Maia Gonçalves Head of Department for Criminal Investigation Surveillance and Intelligence - SEF /Minister of interior Lisboa 18 Maio 2011

2 Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (SEF) Aliens and Border Service / Ministry of Internal Affairs SEF : Controlling the movement of persons at the borders Stay and activities of foreigners in Portugal Examining, promoting, co-ordinating and executing measures and actions related to those activities as well as to migratory movements Fight against criminality and particularly the one linked to illegal migration and trafficking in human beings 2

3 INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION 9 FRONTEX 9 EUROPOL NATIONAL 9 LIAISON OFFICERS INTERNATIONAL 9 INTERPOL 9 NATIONAL SIRENE 3

4 Portuguese ABC System - RAPID The use of new technologies in Border Management Portuguese e-passport - PEP ABC - RAPID Automated Recognition of Passengers holding E-Passports Entry & Exit System - PASSE 4

5 Portuguese Electronic Passport - PEP Conception (production and issuance together) is centralized and ensures a great level of security, as well as of technical accuracy. Adequate quality control processes are carried out. The level of convivial service provided for the citizen enables a choice ranging from 4hours[*] to 5 days anywhere in the world. [*] - Only at the Lisbon airport, for applications made until 12 a.m. 5

6 Entry and Exit System - PASSE First line of control 1. Automatic reading of passport or manual registration 2. Document Validation CAPTURES DOCUMENT AUTHENTICITY IMAGES AND TESTS ITS 3. Search for restrict measures on Schengen/SEF databases 4. Visual comparison of the chip photo with the biographic page photo, and as regards PEP, with the national database 5. Registration of passengers from all third countries. GIVES SEVERAL STATISTICAL DATA, CONCERNING DOCUMENTS AND PASSENGERS FLOWS BOTH 6

7 Entry and Exit System - PASSE DOCUMENT IMAGES UV, VISIBLE, IR, CONFIRM, TAMPER We can see features as text or photos that should or should not be present Presence of 3M CSLaminate and Shows the correct seal Security features which react under UV light Checks for evidence of tampering on the Laminates 7

8 Entry and Exit System - PASSE Second line of control: Back Office 8

9 Portuguese ABC System - RAPID RAPID Automated Recognition of Passengers holding E-Passports First system worldwide to allow an automatic control of passengers holding electronic passports, without pre-requisites the e-passport is the token 9

10 Portuguese ABC System - RAPID 9An eye-monitored system that automatically checks the authenticity of an e-passport (by performing biometric checks) and checks the passenger s identity (against relevant databases) 9 A fully interoperable system (ICAO standards) 9 Easy, fast and secure way for border control 9 User-friendly process 10

11 Portuguese ABC System - RAPID The system RAPID was devised by the Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (SEF) and is being produced by the Portuguese company Vision-Box The system RAPID was devised by the Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (SEF) and is being produced by the Portuguese company Vision-Box 11

12 Immigration Act (2007 upgrade) Penal Provisions 9 Facilitating illegal immigration (smuggling immigrants) 9 Facilitating networks of illegal immigration 9 Illegal labour providers 9 Sham marriages 12

13 National perspective Brazil Coming from: All over the country and particularly from the interior states, Goiás and Minas Gerais 13

14 National perspective Africa and Magreb Coming from: Portuguese Speaking African Countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau) Western Coast, Gulf of Guinea and Sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria) North Africa, Maghreb and Arab Nation (Morocco, Algeria, Egypt) 14

15 National perspective Asia Coming from: China India Pakistan Bangladesh Nepal Iraq Other ex-ussr republics 15

16 National perspective Eastern Europe Coming from: Ukraine Moldova Russian Federation Other ex-ussr republics EU: Romania Bulgaria 16

17 Tendencies Bogus marriages Trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation Rise in smuggling Forged documents Use of ICT- Cyberspace 17

18 Portuguese Sea Was it worth doing? Everything is worth doing If the soul of the doer isn t small. Whoever would go beyond the Cape Must go beyond sorrow. God placed danger and the abyss in the sea, But he also made it heaven s mirror. (Fernando Pessoa) 18