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state.","Profile applicants by nationality, religion or ethnicity beyond what law allows.","Give individual legal advice as if it were from a licensed adviser."],"requiresHuman":["Granting, refusing or revoking a visa or permit.","Deciding an appeal or review.","Sharing case data with another state or with law enforcement."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Decisions shape people's safety, family unity and livelihood, and errors can be hard to reverse.","Applicants are in a weak position and often cannot easily contest automated or opaque decisions.","Data shared with origin states can expose applicants to persecution."],"affectedParties":["Applicants and their families","Sponsors and employers","Consular and immigration officers","Host communities"]},"owners":{"steward":"The immigration or consular authority that receives the application and decides the case.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Immigration case management system","Visa information system","Residence permit 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serious harm to the applicant.","Document fraud and identity fraud in applications.","Leaks of case data to hostile parties."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["ICAO Doc 9303 machine readable travel documents and visas.","National and regional visa information systems for case data exchange.","Online application portals of the deciding authority."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Governed by national immigration law and, in the Schengen area, by the EU Visa Code.","Protection obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention limit refusal and removal in some cases."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code), European Union"},{"title":"ICAO Doc 9303 Machine Readable Travel Documents, ICAO"},{"title":"Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951, United Nations"}],"openQuestions":["Planned model: boundary questions, research and every section remain to be 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researched.","interaction.properties":"The subject is an information or institutional record, not a physical object, so it has no physical properties to measure.","_supplement":"Sections authored in card supplement 1.0.0 by Claude (Opus 5.5) (2026-10-06, unreviewed). Written from the card's existing content and established practice in the field; no new sources were read. Unreviewed."},"score":1.0}}