The long-awaited #BMIC7 is finally underway in Bangkok, 🇹🇭! Government authorities, international partners, identity solution providers, and experts have come together to shape the future of #border & #identity #management.​ APSCA

Day 2 of #BMIC7 is underway! Experts from diverse sectors are addressing border control at land and maritime frontiers, focusing on information sharing and international cooperation. Together, we are shaping the future of effective, collaborative border governance!

We made it, #BMIC7 is underway! Thank you #APSCA for taking the challenge with us one more time to organize this unprecedented gathering of Governments, technology providers and experts in identity and border management.

It’s a wrap! We made it again, but this time #BMIC7 was larger than it ever was in the past ten years. Already planning for #BMIC8, how do you see us crossing borders in 50 years from now?

Learn via video interviews about how for Australia and Thailand, as well as APSCA #BMIC7 delivers actionable recommendations to foster innovation in #documentfraud, #bordermanagement, #visa and #access to legal identity

How many uses can API/PNR have? Immigration data is a lifeline to protect human safety, and the #UNCounterTerroristTravelProgram stands ready to support Indonesia and #ASEAN community via its partners at IOM Asia-Pacific, United Nations CTED, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, UNODC Terrorism Prevention, ICAO, INTERPOL, @UNOICT

🇺🇳@‌UN_OCT signed an Agreement w/ #TimorLeste 🇹🇱Immigration to strengthen cooperation on the use of #API & #PNR to counter #terrorist travel following national consultations in #Dili 🙏#Australia 🇦🇺 for supporting #CTTravel implementation in the region 🔗un.org/cttravel

Safer borders can promote safe migration. In 🇹🇱, women are leading efforts to strengthen border security and fight human trafficking through border management systems like MIDAS in partnership with IOM. ​ See how these efforts are shaping safer migration: bit.ly/IMD_TL

Honored to join the handover of VSC Regula and Standard Operating Procedures to the Department of Immigration, Lao PDR 🇱🇦. With Australian Department of Home Affairs' 🇦🇺 support, we also trained officers to detect fraudulent documents and enhance migration management. #IOMLaoPDR

The challenge is finally up!Making biometric passports available to all citizens of Palau,fight against fraud and preserve seamless travels for all Palauans. Grateful to🇵🇼🇯🇵 for being IOM’s ambitious partners IOM Asia-Pacific IOM Immigration and Border Governance

Over 1,000 trafficking victims remain stranded on the Thai/Myanmar border with little access to essentials. Since Jan 2025, IOM Thailand assisted 67 survivors forced to work in scamming centers, including 17 this week, from 🇬🇭 & 🇳🇦, with embassies, 🇹🇭 govt and NGO support.

#Vanuatu🇻🇺 signed an Agreement w/ #CTTravel & became the 3rd Pacific nation to join the Programme United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism & #IOM facilitated a national consultation to support efforts to detect & counter terrorism & transnational crime by using #API #PNR through #MIDAS #goTravel IOM Asia-Pacific

Fiji is strengthening border security! 🇫🇯✈️​ With support from the Government of Japan, IOM, UNDP & Fiji Immigration have launched #MIDAS at Nausori International Airport — a system that enhances security, streamlines immigration processes & enables data-driven decision-making.

Data without intelligence and intelligence without data, both offset evidence based decision making. At IOM we work with #Pacific #border authorities to achieve both at the same time, for migration management free from #bias IOM Immigration and Border Governance

#SriLanka immigration and #IOM, with #INCERT and #Japan support, gathered to take stock of the implementation of epassports fundamental. Happy to contribute to this key upgrade, and also to meet HE Ambassador of Italy and take stock of irregular migration flows.

Productive discussions between IOM Asia-Pacific Regional Director, Iori Kato🇺🇳IOM and Deputy Secretary General for Multilateral Affairs, Amb. Dato’ Bala Chandran Tharman Wisma Putra on strengthening collaboration in regional migration governance. 📷 Photos by Wisma Putra

Building cross regional cooperation to counter #smuggling is a commitment and now a tangible result of #ANDEX. We are grateful to #MalaysiaJIM to chair ANDEX this year, welcoming Kazakhstan and Mongolia and expanding ANDEX to the Pacific

Thank you IOM Sri Lanka and the Maldives for your visionary approach on supporting the Government of Sri Lanka with ePassport and egates implementation. With incert technical expertise, we jointly advised many Government agencies before full technology deployment IOM Immigration and Border Governance

Asia Pacific countries made the ambitious commitment to register every birth and death by 2030 irrespective of the migration status. We roll up our sleeves to help them building inclusive CRVS systems, and time is short IOM Immigration and Border Governance

“We are here to lead, and we are doing it well”, Director Telesia is one of the most inspiring immigration leaders I have ever met. Her story is impressive, her commitment and empathy even more. IOM Immigration and Border Governance