Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System
A Watch List ( German Watchlist ) is a list of concepts, objects or people that are for the creator of each list of importance.
A special significance of this term in connection with the entry requirements to the USA.
Watchlist for entry into the U.S.
To enter the United States is a Watch List ( including the No Fly List) conducted by the State Department. This contains the names of persons who are not citizens of the United States and there undesirable. The people covered are denied under all circumstances, the entry into the United States. The inclusion of a person in the Watch List can have several reasons; often there are people who are suspected of criminal activities such as drug trafficking or of persons whose names have been set for political reasons on the Watch List, as a writer. The list itself, the reasons and the date of entry are only the Transportation Security Administration announced. After specifying the Federal Bureau of Investigation resulted in carrying out audits in the year 2009 19.000 hits. The Terrorist Watch List in 2009 contained approximately 400,000 names and the subset of the No- Fly List 3400, including 170 U.S. citizens. 2013 was already included 700,000 names on the Terrorist Watch List.
Early 2014 decided for the first time by a court regarding a lawsuit against the listing of a person on the no-fly list. The judge found that the test procedure did not meet the requirements. Therefore, he condemned the government of the United States to obtain information as to whether the applicant should fly to the time of the judgment in the United States, the government must disclose Also, according to which of the nine categories the applicant the flight was denied, even when authorized to conduct concrete evidence to remain secret. In addition, must at least be able to make an application for waiver of the ban on flights per person. In the ensuing final arrangement, the court found that the original entry of the applicant was on the no-fly list, a simple mistake an FBI agent in 2004. As a result, all the other government agencies involved had this entry has never been verified, but taken based only on the initial decision, far-reaching measures following and they entered into various other watch lists. An employee of the State Department wrote about handwritten the word terrorist in a form. The applicant was thus prevented from entering the country for ten years in the United States, lost her doctoral fellowship at Stanford University and had to face additional restrictions on their professional and private life.