immigration check
Entry document inspection
An immigration check is an inspection by authorities to verify a person's legal status or right to enter, remain in, or work in a country.
These occur at borders, airports, and workplaces: We waited two hours at the immigration check.
The term also refers to the process of verifying someone's immigration history, as employers might conduct before hiring.
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- customs officerBorder control agent
- borderOuter edge or limit
- border patrolBoundary enforcement agency
port of entry · visa · visa application · green card · work permit · officer · checkpoint · security · body scanner · stamp · arrival · queue · long lines · documents · screening · airport · identity · clearance
- screeningshealth screening, drug test, cancer screening, prenatal screening, genetic screening
- disembarkingdeplaning, get off, deboarding, step off, detraining
- Flight Connectionslayover, stopover, hub, transit, transfer
- harbor patrolpatrol boat, officer, port authority, boarding team, cargo inspection
immigration checkopen borders
Unregulated international passage
free movement · freedom of movement · visa-free travel · Schengen zone · free passage
immigration, check, immigrate, immigrant, immigrants, immigrating, immigrated, migrate, migrant