ECUADOR NEWS MAGAZINE: Ecuador to streamline immigration controls

Ecuador to streamline immigration controls

Ecuador news magazine - Quito (Pichincha). - The manager of Ecuador’s Proyecto de Intervención Integral de Migración [Comprehensive Migration Intervention Project], Hiroshima Villalba, and Argentina’s National Director of Immigration Martín Arias Duval, signed a technology transfer agreement to modernize the Ecuadorian migration service using experience applied in Argentina.

The agreement arranges for Argentine aid in installing modern immigration software in Ecuador that will comply with international standards.

Mr. Arias said that with the system being used in Argentina 93 million immigration cards were generated in a year, and that a passenger arriving at Ezeiza Airport can get through the immigration process in 45 seconds. Furthermore, 2 million biometric readings are registered per year in Argentina with complete reliability.

ECUADOR NEWS MAGAZINE: Ecuador to streamline immigration controls: Ecuador news magazine - Quito (Pichincha). - The manager of Ecuador’s Proyecto de Intervención Integral de Migración [Comprehensive Migratio...