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Immigration & Visas vocabulary · Border Control & Entry

Border control

Meaning in immigration & visas, with examples

nounCore term

In immigration & visas, border control means: The checks that officials make at a country's borders on people, documents and goods entering or leaving, and the area where these checks happen.

In Turkish: sınır kontrolü, sınır denetimi

How it is used

Used for the system (border control policy) and for the physical place (pass through border control). At airports it covers passport control and customs. Officers may check your passport, visa, return ticket and reason for travel.

Example sentences

  1. Have your passport and return ticket ready when you reach border control.

  2. There are no regular border controls between most Schengen countries.

Common collocations

  • pass through border control
  • border control officers
  • border checks
  • strict border controls
  • passport controlThe place at an airport, port or land border where officials check your passport and visa before you enter or leave a country.
  • immigration officerA government official who checks travellers' documents at the border and decides, or helps decide, whether they may enter or stay.
  • customsThe government department, and the area at a border, where officers check the goods you bring into a country and collect any taxes on them.
  • port of entryAn official place, such as an airport, seaport or land border crossing, where travellers and goods can legally enter a country and are checked.
  • deny entryTo refuse to let a person into a country at the border, even if they have a visa or come from a visa-free country.

More terms: Border Control & Entry

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