Immigration minister Damian Green is to today outline the future of border controls after thousands of people were let into the UK without being checked.
The Border Force has now been split from the UK Border Agency to become a separate law-enforcement body following the revelations.
Mr Green will also outline the role of e-borders, saying: “By April this year we will have advanced sight of details for every passenger on non-EEA (European Economic Area) flights travelling to the UK,” reports the BBC.
"Combined with our strict visa regime it means that all non-EEA passengers arriving from outside Europe will have been checked once, and many twice, while they are still thousands of miles from our passport controls."
Launched by the last Labour government, the £750m e-borders project is designed to collate and store information on all passengers who enter and leave the UK on a single database by 2014 to enable the police and immigration officials to check them against "watch lists".
Mr Green, who will present to the Royal United Services Institute, central London, is due to add: "Over the coming years we will work hard with European partners, carriers and trade groups to further extend e-borders coverage to provide genuinely secure, fluid and complete e-borders for the United Kingdom."
