Transcript Illegal Movements of PRC Nationals.

Trends and Border
Control Initiatives
Occurrences at our borders
Trends and Border Control
Initiatives
 Maldives has a population of 300,000
Three hundreds thousand.
 Expatriate foreign workers 80,000
 Over 20,000 illegal expatriate foreign workers
 No visa required , on arrival 30 day visa for all
nationals.
Illegal movements
 Abuse of Schengen visa’s
 Counterfeit , stolen or altered passports &
visa’s
 Imposters
 Boarding cards swaps
 Improperly obtained documents.
 Underage minors with work permits . ( new)
 Trafficking ( new)
 Money laundering ( new)
Attractions
 Visa free
 Geographic location
 Easy routes to most European destinations
 Srilanka as the closest , three to four flights a
day.
Practices
 All INAD are repatriated to home country due
to lack of facilities to further investigate.
 Under immigration act , a persons entry can
be denied at the point of entry .
 Majority are Srilankan Tamils, Chinese,
Iranians, Iraqi,s and Africans.
Challenges
 Returning of deportees using another
document with names.
 Lack of human smuggling and trafficking laws
 Create awareness of human trafficking and
smuggling issues to Immigration officers,
police and judicial services.
 No detention facilities
 Lack of trained personalities these areas.
Major Conerns
 Marriage of convenience.
 Increasing number of trafficked victims for
employment under false promises.
Major concerns
 Drifting of boats with people of unknown
origin . Possibly pirates. ( undocumented)
 A new trend was noted lately,
 People from this region and far east had been
intercepted using Maldives : Maldives/Dubai/Doha/Casablanca/Lima
Elsalvador:- from there ??? Question raised.
Initiatives
 Passed our first Immigration act on 2007
 Started to issue E passports on 2007 .
 A New visa issued to all expatriates from 01
Jan 2010. with enhanced security .
 Working on to build a new border control
system in 2010 with enhanced features like
facial recognition, finger printing and retina
scanning.
 National data base to share electronic data is
being established. With concerned gov
parties.
 MALDIVIAN E PASSPORT
Our New passport
New Maldivian Passport
Initiatives
 An Immigration Intelligence unit was set up to
gather and share information
 A steering Committee on trafficking among
stakeholders are formed.
 A New act of Money laundering has being
drafted.
 A Terrorism draft finalized ( yet to be passed)
 A good working relationship is maintained
with ALO in Colombo
Initiatives
 For all human trafficking issues immigration
has been assigned as the focal point.
 With the assistance of Australian Government
a model law on human trafficking and
smuggling in progress.
 Thank you.