Key outcomes in the area of business mobility include -

• Launch of a new Regional Movement Alert List system, designed to improve detection of the use of passports reported as lost or stolen. This initiative aims both to assist in the detection of persons of concern and fraudulent travel documents, thereby enhancing border security and safety, and to streamline processing of bona fide travellers.
• 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.
• Agreement on standards for the implementation of advance passenger information systems across the region, with benefits for travellers in increased safety and security.
• 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 (www.businessmobility.org). The Handbook also includes contact information on offices that issue visas across the APEC region.