CBP Mobile Passport Control (MPC) Mobile Application Privacy Policy

In order to enter the United States, you are required to provide travel document data, flight information, photos of you and your traveling family members, and responses to CBP inspection-related questions prior to gaining entry into the United States. Your information will be cross-referenced with data maintained in CBP’s other enforcement databases.

This privacy policy explains how CBP’s Automated Passport Control (APC) Services handles your PII, once it is received from the CBP MPC mobile application. Using MPC to enter the United States is voluntary. It provides international travelers with an alternative approach to traditional methods of submitting the required entry information to CBP during the border inspection process. If you choose not to submit your information, you will be unable to use the MPC-enabled application. You may instead proceed directly to CBP primary examination to initiate the border inspection process.

Information Collected

CBP collects travel document data, flight information, photos of the traveler and traveling family members, and traveler responses to CBP inspection-related questions from all persons seeking to enter the United States in order to confirm the traveler’s identity and citizenship, establish whether the traveler is admissible into the United States, and facilitate CBP’s enforcement of U.S. laws. MPC-enabled mobile applications allow you as a traveler to voluntarily store PII (e.g., surname/last name, given name/first name, date of birth, gender/sex, nationality/citizenship, passport number, passport country issuing authority, and passport date of expiration) securely within your MPC profile on your own device for future travel.

Uses of Information

CBP uses your information to streamline your entry into the United States. In order to enter the United States, you are required to provide specified biographical and biometric information, which will be cross-referenced with data maintained in CBP’s law enforcement databases.

Information Sharing

CBP will share your information within DHS consistent with its legal authorities and within the terms described in following System of Records Notifications (SORNS): Border Crossing Information (BCI) SORN, and the TECS System SORN. Each SORN is accessible via the following website: https://www.dhs.gov/system-records-notices-sorns.

The following DHS components have regular access to border crossing information: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the United States Coast Guard, and the DHS Information & Analysis Directorate (I&A). Information may also be shared with federal, state, local, tribal, international, or foreign governments, or law enforcement agencies to support security activities such as intelligence, counterintelligence, antiterrorism, law enforcement, and threats to national and international security. However, information collected solely for the purpose of facilitating an MPC transaction is not authorized to be shared with third parties by the application’s owner for any other purpose (e.g., social media, marketing or advertising networks).

Application Security

DHS takes the security of all PII very seriously. We take precautions to maintain the security, confidentiality, and integrity of the information we collect through the MPC-enabled mobile application. Such measures include access controls designed to limit access to the information to the extent necessary to accomplish our mission. We also employ various security technologies to protect the information stored on our systems. We routinely test our security measures to ensure that they remain operational and effective.

The MPC-enabled application transmits your data using secure encryption protocols. Transmission of the information via secure electronic transmission reduces the potential for inadvertent exposure of the information to those without a need to know, such as an unintended or inappropriate disclosure. You have the option of either storing your profile information on your personal device for future travel or deleting the information after a single use.

How to Access or Correct your Information

If you would like to access or correct the information you have provided to this MPC-enabled mobile application, you may contact the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP), which is a single point of contact for individuals who wish to correct erroneous data stored in DHS databases. TRIP redress requests may be made online at https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip or by mail at:

Privacy Policy Contact Information

This application reserves the right to make changes to the Privacy Policy by giving notice to its users on this page, and by ensuring protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in all cases. It is strongly recommended to visit this page often, referring to the dates of the modification listed at the bottom.

For further information regarding CBP Privacy Policies please visit: www.cbp.gov/site-policy-notices/privacy-overview. For additional information about our Privacy Policy, or for general privacy inquiries, please contact us through phone at 1-877-CBP-5511 (877-227-5511), or via mail at: