Purpose
1. Automate the real-time verification of personal documents with national identification resources, automating border entry and exit automation, reducing manual review, enhancing security, and ensuring compliance with legal mandates for identity authentication.
2. Streamline automatable data retrieval, validation, cross-checking applicant information, and automating workflow escalation for exception handling and suspicion alerts in border guard document and permit automation processes.
Trigger Conditions
1. Arrival of a traveler at a checkpoint with a scannable document (passport, ID card, etc.) triggers automated identity verification.
2. Application submission for visa, permit, or temporary access automates checks against government identification databases.
3. Automated updates in national or international watchlists activate new validation cycles for already processed entries.
4. Automated cross-border movement triggers workflow automation for re-verification based on entry/exit events.
Platform Variants
1. Microsoft Power Automate
- Feature/Setting: Configure HTTP action to call GOV.UK Verify API; automate retrieval and validation of identity data through secure endpoints.
2. Zapier
- Feature/Setting: Webhooks app triggers upon document scan, automates API calls to Estonian X-Road for citizen records verification.
3. MuleSoft
- Feature/Setting: DataWeave mapping to connect document systems with India’s Aadhaar Authentication API for automating cross-check.
4. AWS Lambda
- Feature/Setting: Lambda function automates calls to the US Social Security Number Verification Service (SSNVS) when border permit workflow is initiated.
5. IBM App Connect
- Feature/Setting: Configure ‘HTTP Request’ node to automate passport details lookup against Canadian IRCC API.
6. Google Cloud Functions
- Feature/Setting: Automates calls to SIN validation service on new Canadian border permit submissions.
7. Salesforce Flow
- Feature/Setting: Automate workflow to trigger EU eIDAS node for digital identity verification on permit application save.
8. Oracle Integration Cloud
- Feature/Setting: REST Adapter to automate interaction with Norwegian BankID verification API during document intake.
9. UiPath
- Feature/Setting: RPA bot automates data scraping from government eID cards and triggers API automation for identity validation.
10. Workato
- Feature/Setting: HTTP connector automates matching applicant record with the Singapore MyInfo API on submission event.
11. Make (Integromat)
- Feature/Setting: Webhooks trigger automates Polish PESEL number verification via GUS API for border document automation.
12. Apigee
- Feature/Setting: Automate OAuth-protected call to UAE Emirates ID system for identity validation at the border.
13. Dell Boomi
- Feature/Setting: Automated process route invokes Danish NemID REST API during customs entry processing.
14. Okta Workflows
- Feature/Setting: Automates connection to German eID Service for verifying border permit application identities.
15. Pipedream
- Feature/Setting: Automate sequence to connect to Belgian eID API on document scan event.
16. Azure Logic Apps
- Feature/Setting: Automates scheduled verification bursts against Australia’s DVS API on shift schedule.
17. Tray.io
- Feature/Setting: Automator flow uses API connector to automate lookup to US State DMV databases as part of vehicle border crossing.
18. Postman Monitors
- Feature/Setting: Automated testing script monitors and triggers French INSEE identity API calls for workflow UAT.
19. Python with Requests module
- Feature/Setting: Script automates POST to the Swiss eID gateway, used via an automation orchestrator to validate credentials.
20. Bitrise
- Feature/Setting: Workflow automation triggers API call to Italian SPID registry during e-border app build pipelines.
21. Camunda BPM
- Feature/Setting: Process model automates sync step between border control workflow engine and the Dutch DigiD REST API.
22. ServiceNow Flow Designer
- Feature/Setting: REST step automates contact with South Africa’s HANIS biometric DB when new permit workflow is opened.
Benefits
1. Automates manual verification, accelerating processing and reducing queue times at border entry points.
2. Automating error-checking and cross-validation minimizes human errors in identity verification.
3. Automated compliance with international and national regulations for secure, tamper-proof identity processes.
4. Enables automatable real-time alerts for suspicious profile matches or watchlist entries.
5. Automator systems centralize logs and status for rapid auditing and post-event review, boosting transparency and traceability.
6. Automation elevates operational capacity, supporting higher traveler and document volume efficiently.