Customs and Immigration

"The Customs and Immigration Service is committed to providing a strong and effective border control in order to protect Jersey from the threats of:

- illegal immigration and the movement of prohibited or restricted goods; and

- loss of government revenue from evasion of the Customs and Excise duties and Goods and Services Tax:

whilst honouring the Island's external Customs, Immigration, Passport and Nationality obligations and, wherever practical, meeting the principals of free movement for people and goods."

The priorities for the Service are to fairly, efficiently and economically:
- collect the Customs and Excise duties which represent approximately 10% of States income:
- collect Goods and Services Tax (GST) on imported goods on behalf of the Comptroller of Income Tax;
- prevent illegal immigrants entering the Island or moving to other parts of the Common Travel Area (UK, Ireland, Guernsey and Isle of Man);
- control drug trafficking, especially of class A drugs, by detecting smuggling attempts, bringing to prosecution the organisers and confiscating their criminal profits;
- manage the British nationality functions of passport issuance and naturalisation.

Customs and Immigration is answerable to the Home Affairs Minister for all its activities, apart from the collection of duties and taxes, which are under the remit of the Treasury and Resources Minister, and immigration and nationality matters which are under the remit of the Lieutenant Governor.