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immigration control; immigration administration
The government function of regulating the entry of foreign nationals into a country — checking passports and visas, issuing residence permits, and enforcing immigration law. Also used to refer to the system or agency responsible for these tasks. Frequently shortened to 入管.
入国管理は厳しい。
Immigration control is strict.
空港で入国管理の審査を受けた。
I went through immigration inspection at the airport.
法務省は入国管理制度の見直しを進めている。
The Ministry of Justice is moving forward with a review of the immigration control system.
Compound of 入国 ('entering a country') and 管理 ('management; control; administration'). Refers both to the regulatory function itself and, by extension, to the offices and officials who carry it out.
USAGE:
- A standard term in news reports, legal documents, and travel contexts.
- Often abbreviated to 入管 in casual reference, news headlines, and institution names: 入管法 ('Immigration Control Act'), 入管施設 ('immigration facility').
- In Japan, the relevant agency is the 出入国在留管理庁 (Immigration Services Agency), usually shortened to 入管庁.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 入国管理局: Immigration Bureau (the former name of the agency)
- 入国管理法: Immigration Control Act
- 入国管理の審査: immigration inspection
- 厳しい入国管理: strict immigration control
- 入国管理官: immigration officer
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 入管: the common abbreviation — widely used in news headlines and speech.
- 出入国管理: immigration and emigration control — the broader official term covering both entry and exit.
- 税関: customs — a separate function dealing with goods rather than people.
- {ビザ}: visa — the document whose issuance and checking is central to immigration control.