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Section sizes Section size for Border control (44 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 3,114 3,114 History 3,759 36,919 Medieval period 3,350 3,350 Modern history 25,959 25,959 COVID-19 3,851 3,851 Aspects 314 136,534 Air and maritime borders 19,163 19,163 Biosecurity 16,915 16,915 Customs 12,190 12,190 Border security 8,908 50,820 Border walls 15,281 15,281 Border checkpoints 12,071 12,071 Border zones 14,560 14,560 Immigration law 1,176 1,176 Immigration policies 27 35,430 Diaspora communities 7,365 7,365 Open borders 13,669 13,669 Hostile environment policies 14,369 14,369 International zones 526 526 Internal border controls 4,022 47,469 Asia 15,758 15,758 Europe 16,345 16,345 Middle East 6,117 6,117 North America 4,991 4,991 Historical 236 236 Specific requirements 742 86,793 Biometrics 16,320 16,320 Immigration stamps 7,122 7,122 Exit controls 8,296 8,296 Exit permits 6,353 6,353 Travel documents 1,341 1,341 Visas 10,847 10,847 Electronic visas and electronic travel authorisations 15,986 15,986 Nationality and travel history 3,701 3,701 Prescreening 16,085 16,085 Expedited border controls 36,973 36,973 Border control organisations by country 4,964 4,964 Controversies 22,287 22,287 Gallery 1,602 1,602 See also 198 198 Notes 29 29 References 28 28 Further reading 3,748 3,748 External links 484 484 Total 381,142 381,142

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I was wondering whether checks are made inquiring to the reason for travel to other countries at airports. This could reduce prostitution/human trafficking. For example, if a young woman or women, accompanied by a man travels from a developing country to a developed country and if the accompanying man is known to work at a shady dance hall, ... it can be assumed that the reason for travel could be illegal prostitution/human trafficking. Denying travel in these instances would make it economically far less attractive for traffickers (as they'll need to opt for different -more expensive- modes of travel, ie via car, train, ..).

In specific, airports of atleast [cities] should be foreseen with such checking.

Besides this, the checking of visa's and being less easy-going on providing these to "dancers" at dance halls, ... would also be advisable; however this will probably not be possible in certain areas -i.e. in Europe, movement across borders is more or less free/unrestricted allready-.

KVDP (talk) 12:56, 23 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This article, in late October 2014, does not discuss border control's functions in reducing risks of transmitting infectious diseases in crops. I think it should briefly mention that function. MaynardClark (talk) 15:09, 28 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

At the end of 2015, the article yet does not mention the border control's role in lowering risks of transmitting infectious diseases in crops brought across international borders. MaynardClark (talk) 08:43, 27 December 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Does the current portion on quarantine address this issue? 58.182.247.136 (talk) 11:09, 8 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The current revision of the history section is obviously ideologically motivated, full of false statements like "Whilst border control in Europe and east of the Pacific have tightened over time" and incomplete. It also seems to discuss U.S. and British nationality law rather than border controls in itself. What about nationalism, the customs income incentive, quarantine, historical Spanish controls against Jews and Moors, threat of communism and anarchism, Soviet Union, EU and Schengen, etc.? Rather than try to improve it, should there be a better starting point like a shorter but more complete section? This does require significant deletions of the current content though, so I'd rather start here on the talk page. --vuo (talk) 06:10, 7 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Besides the new history section, the current revision also has other problems. It should be forked into several other articles as is, because it is way too long. This is because it contains long lists ("phonebooks") in many sections and large amounts of extremely specific details about individual countries. There is also a mix-up with another related topic, immigration policy. For example, the section about immigrant investors is about this. Border control is the enforcement of these policies, but these policies are a distinct topic. Whereas, there should be something about border guards, more than a "see also" link. --vuo (talk) 06:16, 7 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The lemma states that Canadians do not need an ESTA. Isn't the same true for Bermudans? Ds77 (talk) 22:11, 9 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Fixed it.111.65.57.8 (talk) 06:56, 10 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

By the way, should the article also mention the whole situation with visa exemptions for Bahamians who use preclearance, and the Cayman Islands waiver programme? How about automatic revalidation for people visiting “contiguous” territories? 111.65.58.97 (talk) 11:32, 23 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Surely Israel is not in Europe? Sweboi (talk) 13:31, 30 June 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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In the "Europe" section, on the map, where is the RED LINE? Because the caption says it is there, but I don't see it. And I hope I haven't gone colour blind. ᕵᗩᑘᒪ_ᖶᕼᘿ_ᑢᖻᑢᒪᓰSᖶ from Hungarian Wiki ^Post 23:22, 3 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This article is currently the longest on the wiki, with 497,000+ bytes. I am unsure exactly how we would do a split, so I am open to ideas for either splitting or another way of reducing this article's size. Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 16:10, 12 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Blubabluba9990 In addition to what has been done already, the section on Visas should be shortened/summarized, and have its contents merged with the main article Travel visa.

Furthermore, the information on "Electronic visas and electronic travel authorisations" should be either extracted to a separate stand-alone article, or merged into Travel visa as it more closely belongs there than here. Set theorist (talk) 10:26, 30 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Synonym. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.112.214.68 (talk) 00:21, 14 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Immigration law and policy section

There's an entire section on "Immigration law and policy" that is indeed about that, immigration law and policy. Most of it is not directly concerned with border control, or at least it fails to reflect its statements against border control topics. I am proposing cutting it out or at least minimizing it and leaving a link to "Immigration law". vuo (talk) 10:02, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

done.--Wuerzele (talk) 23:03, 8 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]