{"id":212,"date":"2025-09-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/?p=212"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:52:44","slug":"border-management-equipment-handed-over-with-iom-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/border-management-equipment-handed-over-with-iom-and-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Border management equipment handed over with IOM and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 26 September 2025, the Embassy of Japan held a handover ceremony at the Ministry of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for the IOM project to strengthen border control and respond to infectious diseases in Pacific Island countries.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final batch of equipment completed the three-year project (2022 to 2025). It included:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>11 new passport scanners<\/li><li>12 workstation sets for immigration counters<\/li><li>furniture and equipment for the refurbished seaport office<\/li><li>25 sets of magnifying loupes and UV lights for document examination<\/li><li>uniforms for all 38 immigration officers<\/li><li>an immigration system upgrade, completed in August 2025<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ws.emb-japan.go.jp\/itpr_ja\/11_000001_00520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the announcement from the Embassy of Japan<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of Japan handed over the final batch of border management equipment, completing a three-year IOM project with Samoa.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.gov.ws\/sm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}