Peru expands Automated Immigration Control Platform at Lima Airport
Ana Catarina Meleiro
Corporate and Marketing Communications | Brands | BA, MBA | (she/her)
Peru’s Minister of Interior, Mauro Medina, and the National Superintendent of Migrations, Eduardo Sevilla Echevarría, have officially announced the expansion of the Vision-Box Automated Immigration Control Platform at Lima´s Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM). Also present for the ceremony were Juan Jose Salmón, La Paz Airport CEO, and IATA representative Ramon Jiménez, both of whom closely collaborated with the project.
Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones (Migration Authority) of Perú, Lima Airport and Vision-Box have been closely cooperating in redesigning the airports’ border management and passenger clearance model for the past few years. The first stage of the new border control solution was completed in 2016 with the deployment of an integrated monitoring and control platform. It included opening six Automated Border Control eGates offering self-service biometric and ePassport checks.
Since then, passengers have benefited from an enhanced experience, clearing the border in just a few seconds. Proving its performance in increasing passenger processing capacity, the solution has now expanded to accommodate the pronounced growth of passenger numbers.
Passengers now have an additional twelve eGates to self-process through the border. Peruvian authorities, in turn, have now achieved an even greater capacity to process passengers with an extended agile, efficient, and secure immigration infrastructure, in line with modern international biometric identification standards and passenger experience trends. The system also includes the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS), with Passenger Name Record (PNR) information to be added soon.
Peruvian officials stated that this important milestone in border digital transformation will assist airport authorities to meet the needs of the 30 million annual passengers projected to pass through LIM by 2021, and with the expected influx of thousands of daily travelers for the 2019 Pan-American Games.
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5yis that one also equipped with a facial recognition & fingerprint biometric? otherwise, the level of security is questionable, if platform only checks a passport but not its owner...
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5yI hope our Aviation and Transport ministers would plan to implement this for us in Naija