{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.wm-pol-028","code":"wm-pol-028-border-crossing-event","url":"https://ver.cy/models/wm-pol-028-border-crossing-event/","name":"Border Crossing Event","alternateNames":[],"kind":"world-model","status":"todo","version":"unversioned","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"World Models","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"standalone-mm","plane":"","domain":["SOC.POL.BRD"],"industry":["Cross-industry"],"navPath":"NAV.SOC.POL.BRD","tags":["border","crossing","event","soc.pol.brd"],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A border crossing event is one observed passage of persons, goods or a vehicle across a state border at a crossing point, with the checks performed by border and customs authorities and the outcome, such as entry, exit, refusal or seizure. 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performed?","id":"POL028-Q05"},{"text":"Which databases or watchlists were consulted, under which legal basis?","id":"POL028-Q06"}]}]}]},{"id":"POL028-B3","name":"Outcome","description":"What was decided and how it can be contested.","layers":[{"id":"POL028-B3-L1","name":"Decision","description":"Entry, exit, refusal, detention or seizure, with reasons.","findings":[{"id":"POL028-F04","name":"Crossing outcome","description":"The decision taken and its grounds.","questions":[{"text":"Was entry or exit allowed, refused, or were goods held or seized?","id":"POL028-Q07"},{"text":"On what legal ground was a refusal or seizure made, and was it explained?","id":"POL028-Q08"},{"text":"Which remedy or asylum procedure was made available to the person?","id":"POL028-Q09"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain entry rules, required documents and procedures from official sources.","Help travellers and traders prepare documents and declarations before a crossing.","Report aggregate crossing statistics published by authorities.","Process crossing records for an authorized border authority within its legal mandate."],"mustNot":["Help anyone evade border checks, smuggle goods or people, or use false documents.","Profile travellers on grounds such as ethnicity or religion.","Share crossing records about individuals beyond the legal basis for processing.","Make a refusal of entry or a seizure decision without a human officer.","Deny a person access to asylum procedures or legal remedies."],"requiresHuman":["Refusing entry, detaining a person or seizing goods.","Handling an asylum request made at the border.","Releasing crossing records about an individual to another authority."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Border decisions affect liberty, safety and the right to seek asylum.","Crossing records reveal movements of people and can be misused for surveillance.","Automated risk scoring at borders can embed discrimination."],"affectedParties":["Travellers and migrants","Asylum seekers and refugees","Traders and carriers","Border and customs officers"]},"owners":{"steward":"The border guard or customs authority responsible for the crossing point owns the crossing record.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Border entry and exit systems","Customs declaration systems","Advance passenger information systems"]},"relations":[{"target":"WM-POL-006","type":"parent"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["A crossing is identified by the authority's record number, the crossing point code and the time of passage.","Travellers are identified by travel document numbers read from machine-readable documents.","Goods are linked by customs declaration and transport document references, and vehicles by registration."]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Time of crossing as date and time with time zone.","Number of persons crossing and number of vehicles.","Mass of goods in kilograms and declared value in currency units.","Waiting or processing time in minutes where recorded."]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["Occurs at a designated crossing point with checks by border or customs officers.","Travellers present documents; vehicles and goods may be inspected or scanned.","Often confused with internal checks, transit within a free movement area, or a customs declaration filed without a crossing."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["A crossing can be recorded, checked, allowed, refused or followed by seizure or detention.","Advance information allows checks to begin before arrival."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Wrongful refusal that returns a person to danger.","Data breaches exposing travellers' movements.","Smuggling and trafficking that endanger the people being moved."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["ICAO Doc 9303 machine-readable travel documents.","WCO Data Model for customs and border data exchange.","UN/EDIFACT PAXLST messages for advance passenger information."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Takes place at land crossings, seaports and airports.","Governed by national immigration and customs law and by international refugee law."]}},"sources":[{"title":"ICAO Doc 9303 Machine Readable Travel Documents, International Civil Aviation Organization"},{"title":"WCO Data Model, World Customs Organization"},{"title":"Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951), United Nations"}],"openQuestions":["Planned model: boundary questions, research and every section remain to be written."],"resources":{"spec":"https://ver.cy/models/wm-pol-028-border-crossing-event/spec.yaml","agents":"https://ver.cy/models/wm-pol-028-border-crossing-event/AGENTS.md"},"provenance":{"origin":"planned (registry 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Written from the card's existing content and established practice in the field; no new sources were read. Unreviewed."},"score":1.0}}