The legal responsibilities of airline carriers are found in the migration laws and regulations of the state that grants those rights to land.
Border Control Agencies are the front-line in the protection of the national border and to apply the rules and regulations relating to the entry and exit from that state.
Facilitation and Security are two equally important objectives that must be balanced by effective national security policy
Today it is not enough to simply secure borders from unauthorised entry by known undesirables. Now it is necessary to manage the stay of travellers, from entry through to exit, to know who has been in the country and when they left