Border Customs & Migration
Border crossings, customs, residency and migration status
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Incomplete
3 bundles · 7 layers · 0 findings · 0 questions
crossing Movement of persons across the border
entryExit
crossing records at border points
travelDocument
document presentation and verification
customs Movement of goods across the border
goodsDeclaration
declared goods and values
dutyAssessment
duties, taxes, reliefs
inspection
physical and documentary controls
migrationStatus Permission to enter and remain
visa
entry permissions and their conditions
residency
residence statuses and their lifecycle
Note: Legacy card: layers named, findings and questions never written.
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- category-split-required
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.POL.BRD
- Domain
- SOC.POL.BRD
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- bordercustomsmigrationsoc.pol.brd
- Also called
- A16
What it is Derived, awaiting review
This meta-model describes what happens at and after the border: crossings of persons, travel document checks, customs declarations with their duty assessments and inspections, and the visa and residency statuses that determine who may enter and remain.
Note: First sentence of the legacy card introduction.
Why it exists Filled
Border crossings, customs, residency and migration status
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- It is its own model because border facts join three otherwise separate worlds (persons, goods, legal statuses) at a single point in space and time, and because it carries a distinctive guarantee: each person can always see their own status record.
What robots and AI may and may not do Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Filled
Steward
The border authority (a mandated operator under A12) stewards crossings, customs and status records.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- world.person - travelers, holders and applicants resolve to persons
- world.grantedRight - issued visas and residency statuses are recorded as granted rights
- world.interstateRelations - visa-waiver and customs regimes derive from treaties in force
- world.offenseEnforcement - refusals, seizures and violations hand over to enforcement
extends
- world.authorization - statusApplication and visa issuance specialize the generic application-to-grant process
composes
- world.auditTrail - crossings, checks and assessments are append-only
imports
- wco-data-model - ALIGN: customs declaration and goods-item semantics
- icao-doc-9303 - REFERENCE: machine-readable travel document structure
- iso-3166 - REFERENCE: country and territory code scheme
requires
- vr.wm-pol-005
- vr.wm-pol-008
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Derived, awaiting review
- travelDocumentCheck: the verification of a presented document; key attributes: documentIdentifier, issuingCountryCode, validityResult, checkedOn
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- crossingRecorded: a person's entry or exit was recorded at a border point
- entryRefused: a crossing was denied and the ground recorded
- declarationLodged: a customs declaration was filed
- dutyAssessed: duties and taxes on a declaration were computed and became payable
- inspectionCompleted: a control act on goods or documents concluded with a finding
- visaIssued: an entry permission was granted with its conditions
- visaRevoked: an entry permission was withdrawn before expiry
- residencyGranted: a residence status became effective for a person
Legacy events listed as state transitions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- selfStatusAccess: each person's guaranteed view of their own crossings, visas and residency records
- carrierVerification: yes-or-no validity checks on documents and visas for transport operators, without record disclosure
- traderDeclarationAccount: a declarant's standing access to its own declarations and assessments
- interAuthorityExchange: scoped exchange with other authorities of this catalogue under explicit grant
- myStatus: a person's own statuses, applications and crossings; omits enforcement annotations
- borderFlowStatistics: aggregate flows of persons and goods by point and period; omits all identities
- traderLedger: declarations, assessments and inspection outcomes for one declarant; omits other parties
Context of use required Filled
- Every person is guaranteed sight of their own status; all other access, including carrier and inter-authority flows, is granted by the owner via S1 and S2.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- Superseded by a researched world model? Map this legacy card to its successor or retire it.
Machine files
Provenance
legacy MMAS card (world-models v0.2) · legacy
Built from: models/world-a16-border-customs-and-migration/spec.yaml, models/docs/polity/A16-border-customs-and-migration.md