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Overview
The work includes checking passports and official documents, using surveillance equipment, asking questions, identifying security risks and recording decisions or incidents at a border or entry point.
In job descriptions, look for travel documentation, immigration law, customs checks, cargo inspection, interviews, public enquiries, holding areas, operational communication and written reports.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Immigration officer work is organized around entry points, queues, documents, interviews and goods checks. The role balances lawful entry decisions with clear communication to travellers and colleagues.
Skills and specializations
Important depth includes travel documents, official identity checks, immigration law, surveillance equipment, cargo inspection and written reporting. Some posts add frisking, holding-area guidance or evidence presentation.
Salary context
Pay context is shaped by shift patterns, border setting, decision authority, security exposure, interview duties and whether the role includes inspection, detention support or specialist document checks.
Career paths
Development can move from document checking and public enquiries toward interview work, cargo inspection, operational coordination, investigation support, training or specialist document-risk roles.
Good to know
Read vacancies for the entry-point setting, document systems, interview expectations, reporting duties and security equipment. The advert should make clear whether the role is passenger-facing, cargo-focused or mixed.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Public order and safety activities
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include police detective, passport officer and police inspector.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 2
Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs
43-4061.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETCustoms and Border Protection Officers
33-3051.04
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
The official mapping connects this O*NET occupation to more than one exact ESCO occupation.
Source and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
84.24Public order and safety activities
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Customs and border inspectors (3351)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6296faea-1909-4943-b0e0-662b43ad855d |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3351.3 |
| ISCO group | 3351 |
| Concept type | Occupation |