Border Management Solution

Abstract

An integrated border management solution providing a balance between facilitating the movement of people and commerce with the requirements of immigration, customs, and other border-focused law enforcement. The facilitation aspect of the solution includes processing of arrivals and departures, as well as processing requests triggered by forms and applications such as requests for visas, asylum or customs declarations. The enforcement aspect of the solution includes border enforcement alerts and communication, as well as a comprehensive, integrated investigation and intelligence workbench. The border management solution is based upon a border management business architecture defining the structure for developing a border management solution in terms of its capabilities and the interrelationships of those capabilities. The border management solution according to the present invention may be implemented as an integrated whole or as component parts to a border management solution.

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         59 . A computer-implemented method for implementing a border management application architecture comprising:
 providing, on a computer, a set of core applications for standard border management functions in a shared applications architecture, wherein the set of core applications includes a set of case management applications, a process imports application, and one or more investigation applications;   providing, on the computer, a customer channel interface for interconnecting a set of customer channels that provide individual access points for a plurality of users of the border management application architecture and the set of core applications;   providing, on the computer, one or more management access interfaces for interconnecting one or more management access channels with the set of core applications; and   providing an enforcement database storing case data and individual data.