border crossing
Between two countries
A border crossing is a place where travelers pass from one country into another, typically staffed by customs and immigration officials: We waited two hours at the border crossing.
The term also refers to the act itself: Illegal border crossings have increased.
By extension, any movement between distinct territories or domains.
- checkpointInspection station on route
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- no man's landUnowned space between enemies
- bridgeStructure spanning an obstacle
immigration · customs · duty free · frontier · coyote · threshold · visa-free travel · welcome center · smuggling · demarcation line · boundary · fence · razor wire · diaspora · refugee · liminality · point of no return · passage
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- border controlvisa requirements, passport control, guard, customs inspection, immigration
- Customs & Bordercustoms officers, customs declaration, customs broker, port of entry, passport control
- Southern African Transporttaxi rank, bus, long-distance bus, pickup truck, Land Rover
- Traffickingdrug trafficking, trafficking, trafficker, drug smuggling, smuggling
border crossingborder closure
Barring passage between countries
border wall · deportation · closed border · immigration detention · quarantine
border crossingstaying put
Remaining in place
immobility · staying home · sedentarism · rootedness · permanent residence
cross, border, crossing, borders, bordering, crosses, bordered, borderline, crosswalk