Research And Implementation Of An (AVIS) Applied Visa Information System

Today more than ever, information technology is used to gain and sustain a competitive advantage in Businesses.Gabon, one of equatorial Africa's most promising states, became more attractive once it began to produce oil and all significant minerals resources. The immigration in this country is amplifying and it is acquiring the dimension of an economic boom relative to its modest size and population.The increasing global mobility, in reaction to the need to satisfy a variety of labor requirements, is slowly having a major impact on many countries where governments are recognizing the necessity to develop and modify their immigration systems; to determine who, for how long, under what conditions they can stay and how many may enter into their countries.The mass movement of populations worldwide is increasing the global security threat. In response, The European Agency for Reconstruction official Luigi Sandrin has said that "Establishment of effective visa management procedures is one step further towards the liberalization of the visa regime" .This paper expounds the idea of building a unified, effective prototype and action oriented Applied Visa Information System (AVIS) for the Gabonese Republic Embassy to China (GRAVIS) based upon a specialized information database used in managing all applications received and visas issued.Because "Data has been collected and stored in an electronic database since at least the 1940s" , the Gabon Embassy obviously lacks an electronic database, thus lacking the ease and efficiency needed to organize their data worldwide, especially in order to manage the immigration issue.Providing a wider electronic access to data requires collecting the existing data at the source and increasing the amount of information on the web by millions of pages every day. This would require a standardize metadata storage and management system in order to ensure accuracy. GRAVIS is present with the intention of reducing the paper work aspect of the existing visa issue procedure and management system in the Gabon Embassy.As ER methodology is not limited to the development of relational databases , GRAVIS will consist of a large automated database that contains the names of all non-Gabonese citizens who, after applying, have been found eligible, or not, for a visa.This paper introduces GRAVIS, a proposal for the Gabon embassy in China to systematically develop its design, development, process and the implementation. The electronic web base application that will make the collection of data on non-citizens wishing to visit Gabon will replace the actual manual-book-filling procedure.It will be of paramount importance to assure the performance of GRAVIS before putting it into use; it gives us the freedom and flexibility to adjust various parameters of the system at the planning stage. This way, we eliminate the risk of the bottleneck effect, under use or over use of resources and failure to meet targeted system requirementsThis paper, in sequential chapters, expands on design, development and implementation of the prototype GRAVIS; It provides the reader with both the fundamentals and the applications essential to making it a reality, responding to the modernization in management of information with database knowledge.The first chapter, the Introduction of the thesis, will present the background of our research, exploring the reason for building GRAVIS.The second chapter will provide the methodology we adopted, giving further details about the system requirements and analysis. This is followed by the third chapter, which describes, along the same lines of the design of our system, all the technical details for system procedure layering.The fourth chapter provides the practical aspect of the programming experiment procedure and methods with operations of workstation and system software architecture: the implementation of our prototype system and the related work developed by The fifth chapter ends this thesis with a conclusion, prior to giving some clarification needed for further prospective research on this case of a system for visa management.