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ENABLING ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE OF LOST & STOLEN TRAVEL DOCUMENT

ENABLING ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE OF LOST & STOLEN TRAVEL DOCUMENT. BALI PROCESS 20 TH TO 22 ND APRIL, 2005 SIAM CITY HOTEL BANNGKOK, THAILAND. FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT. OBJECTIVE. Fiji Immigration Department background Fiji Passport Legislation

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ENABLING ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE OF LOST & STOLEN TRAVEL DOCUMENT

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  1. ENABLING ELECTRONIC EXCHANGEOF LOST & STOLEN TRAVEL DOCUMENT BALI PROCESS 20TH TO 22ND APRIL, 2005 SIAM CITY HOTEL BANNGKOK, THAILAND FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

  2. OBJECTIVE • Fiji Immigration Department background • Fiji Passport Legislation • Immigration information system • Travel document information sharing FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

  3. FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT • Four(4) main areas of business of the Department are: * Immigration- Immigration Act * Citizenship-1997 Constitution & Citizenship Act * Passport- Passport Act * Deportation- Deportation Act FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

  4. BACKGROUND *Immigration is one of the few departments that have been around for the last 127 years *In 1878 under ordinance No 6 the than Governor of Fiji appointed the Agent-General for Immigration and sub- agents or Inspectors to regulate and control the recruitment of immigrants from recruiting vessels to the plantations and their repatriation back to their own country * In 1955 the Commissioner of Police was appointed to be the Principal Immigration Officer * 1969-The Immigration Department was transferred from the Fiji Police department to the Ministry of Labour * In 1970 all posts were civilianized and the department was headed by a Chief immigration officer * June 1976 to September 1977 – Ministry of Home Affairs * 1977-1982 – Ministry of labor, Industrial Relations & Immigration * July 1982 -1987 – Ministry of Home Affairs * 1987 until today always attached with the Home Affairs ministry. FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

  5. PASSPORT LEGISLATION • New Act passed October 2002 • Regulations being finalized • 2.Exclusions: Minors, and those with Police records • 3.Appealable provisions to the Minister • 4.Director of Immigration may cancel lost or stolen passports. FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

  6. IMMIGRATION INFORMATION SYSTEM • Immigration Department Information system • Passport system; 387 lost Fiji Diplomatic passports • Watchlist or alert list • Fiji Government IT Dept initiative to make watchlist available to regional database (PIDC) FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

  7. TRAVEL DOCUMENT INFORMATION SHARING • Act can appoint Immigration Officers from within or regional organizations • Act has API provision for pre-entry arrivals • Can publicize photos and names of wanted immigrants (overstayers/criminals) • No legislation on information sharing, but must include provisions in the Regulations to the Passport & Immigration Acts FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

  8. CONCLUSION • Legislation must be in place to protect privacy of persons while sharing the lost/stolen travel document information • Bali process must initiate a medium for electronic information sharing to integrate all regional databases including Interpol and similar policing bodies • The monitoring/policing of lost and stolen travel documents from Bali Process countries in other partsof the world must be investigated. FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

  9. VINAKA (THANK YOU)GOD BLESS YOU ALL FIJI IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT

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