Key Outcomes
Key outcomes in the area of business mobility include -
- Increasing the number of APEC Business Travel cardholders, improving the
operation of the scheme and the service to cardholders.
- Work to build economies' capacity to process and adopt machine readable
travel documents, incorporating biometric data, in order to improve travel
document security and integrity, and thereby improve both security and
border controls.
- Progress on implemenation of advance
passenger information systems (APIs) across the region, with benefits
for travelers and economies in increased safety and security, in accordance
with the BMG API Pathfinder Implementaion Plan.
- The development of best practice travel document examination regimes
across the region to assist the detection of fraudulent documentation.
- The development of standards to improve the standard and security of
travel documentation and of standards for immigration legal infrastructure,
to enhance the security of borders and address illegal movement of people.
- Continued progress by economies to improve the standard of professional
immigration service.
- Agreement to improved service standards for processing applications
for, and extensions of, temporary residence permits for executives, managers
and specialists transferred within their companies to other APEC Member
Economies.
- Collective agreement to continue to examine ways to streamline
processing procedures for business travellers, and individual action to
facilitate business travel, for example by expanding visa-waiver programs or
extending the validity of multiple-entry visas or by joining the APEC
Business Travel Card scheme.
- Maintenance of up-to-date information on requirements for short-term
business visas and temporary business residency permits in the Internet
version of the APEC Business Travel Handbook, which is available on
the BMG's website at www.businessmobility.org.
The Handbook also includes contact information on offices that issue visas
across the APEC region.
