Future Biometrics at the Border: Verification to identification

Presenter - Lyn Hinds Director, Identity Policy, Risk, Fraud & Integrity Division

FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY Portfolio Reform

• Department of Immigration and Border Protection and Australian Customs and Border Protection Service - single entity on 1 July 2015.

• Single immigration and customs border policy.

• New Australian Border Force – new front-line operational enforcement agency: • investigations, compliance and detention operations • airports and seaports • land and maritime

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 2 Department of Immigration and Border Protection

The department’s purpose • Enhance Australia’s national security, economy and society through effective border protection, targeted temporary and permanent migration, and humanitarian and citizenship programmes.

Each week, on average DIBP officers: • Clear 626,000 air passengers on 3,667 flights • Process 44,000 passengers and crew arriving by sea • Grant: – 94,000 permanent and temporary visas – 5,600 student visas – 260 humanitarian visas • Confer Australian Citizenship on 3,100 people • Inspect 1M mail items • Survey 3M square nautical miles (icw Department of Defence) • Collect $264M in revenue.

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 3 Growth in Australian border crossings

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 4 Australia’s Border: A Strategic National Asset

The border is not a line on a map • Border continuum - pre-border, at border, post-border.

Universal visa policy • Every non-citizen needs a visa.

Advanced Passenger Processing (APP) • Assessing risk as far as possible from Australia’s physical border • Visa management • Airline Liaison Officers (offshore) • Biometrics.

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 5 Pre-Application Application Process

Visa and Passport Databases Check-In

Movements Movements Referrals System Advance Passenger Travel & Processing (APP) Immigration System Processing Australian System Passports After Check-In Database Electronic Travel New Zealand Central Movement Authority System Passports Alert List (ETAS) Database ETAS & APP Reporting Integrated Client Regional System Arrival Services Movement Environment Alert System Expected Central

Movement File Movement Alert Central List Movement Document APP Alert List Alert List Passenger (DAL) Name Record I-Authenticate Immigration Records PACE Travel & Information Immigration SmartGate System Processing PACE System (Customs Entry Control Safeguards system) Program Airline Liaison Security Officers Expected 6 checking FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY Movement File Pre-Application Application Process Current Visa and Passport Databases Check-In Biometric FCC Data MovementsSharing Components Movements Referrals System Advance Passenger OffshoreTravel & Processing (APP) BiometricsImmigration System Processing Australian System Passports After Check-In Database Electronic Travel New Zealand Central Movement Authority System Passports Alert List (ETAS) Database Identity ETAS & APP matching Reporting Integrated Client Regional System Arrival Services Movement Environment Alert System Expected Central

Movement File Movement Alert Central SmartGate List Movement Document APP Alert List Alert List Passenger (DAL) Name Record I-Authenticate Immigration Biometrics @ Airline Liaison Records PACEBorder Travel & Officers Information Immigration System Processing PACE System (Customs Entry Control Safeguards system) Program

Security Expected 7 checking FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY Movement File Biometrics: Key benefits

• Facilitate movement of genuine travellers

• Combat identity fraud

• Prevent forum shopping for asylum

• Reduce people smuggling/trafficking

• Anchor a claimed identity

• Increase border security:

• Verify identity of visa holders

• Identify persons of concern

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 8 Biometric collection

The department collects biometrics from: • Protection visa applicants onshore

• People in immigration detention

• Citizenship applicants (facial image only)

• Offshore visa applicants

• Airport turn-arounds

• Passengers of concern prior to immigration clearance

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 9 Current biometric capabilities at the border

• Verification offshore

• SmartGate

• Verification onshore (1:1 matching)

• Airport collection

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 10 Biometrics offshore

Biometrics are enrolled offshore at selected overseas posts and at Visa Application Centres (VACs)

DIBP

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 11 SmartGate

• SmartGate is the current biometric automated clearance channel

• All Australian International Airports

• For arriving selected travellers using ePassports

• Use of Facial Recognition (FR) to verify the passport holder’s identity

Above pictures courtesy Australian Customs and Border Protection Service.

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 12 Verification (1:1 matching)

• A pilot project for the verification of passenger identity using biometrics commenced in Perth in March 2012.

• Extended to Melbourne in June 2012.

• The most recent facial image – collected at visa application is displayed on the device.

• Verifications are conducted prior to immigration clearance using a mobile hand-held device.

• To date over 11,000 biometric checks prior to immigration clearance.

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 13 Airport Biometric Capture Units

• Passengers being turned around and passengers of interest can be enrolled as part of a secondary line interview.

• Designed and assembled in-house by Immigration officers.

• Deployed to all eight major Australian International Airports.

• Fingerprints can be checked against immigration and law enforcement data holdings.

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 14 Biometric Initiatives

• APP on departure and next gen eGates

• Expand to 1:many biometrics at the border

• Immicards to travel

• Biometric alert list

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 15 Biometrics and APP

APP on departure - Brisbane trial 2014/15 - Roll-out 2015/16

New automated eGates - New technology in all airports during 2015/16 - Expanded eligibility - Enhanced biometric capability

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 16 One-to-many biometric checks

• Expand 1:1 biometrics at the border to 1:many mobile capability

• Pilot early 2015; all airports by 30 June 2015

• Hand held device > fingerprint only > Hit/No Hit > real-time response

• Arrivals and departures

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 17 Immicards • In 2015 a new Australian Migration Status ImmiCard will be issued to refugees offshore to facilitate travel to Australia and commencement of identity in Australia • Replace non-secure, paper documents often relied upon as primary proof of identity • Immicard features: • Security • Photograph • ICAO compliant; machine readable

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 18 Alert List Operations

Biographic based alert lists

- Central Movement Alert List (CMAL) - Passenger Analysis Clearance and Evaluation (PACE) system

Biometric alert list

- Biometric anchor - Enhanced security and law enforcement capabilities at the border

Department of Immigration and Border Protection FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY 19 Questions

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