Where an immigration officer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an immigration officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Immigration officers monitor the eligibility of people, food, electronic devices and merchandise entering a country via an entry point. They use surveillance methods and check identification and documents to ensure entry criteria and custom laws are complied with. They can also conduct interviews with prospective immigrants to verify eligibility and inspect cargo to identify and detect violations.
Also known as customs inspector, border force officer, passport checking officer, immigration guard, customs and excise official, immigration official, border force official.
Technicians and associate professionals 23 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: intelligence officer, 37%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An immigration officer needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.
- apply immigration law assisting and caring
- check travel documentation assisting and caring
- provide immigration advice communication, collaboration and creativity
- immigration law business, administration and law
- ensure law application assisting and caring
- check official documents assisting and caring
- conduct research interview communication, collaboration and creativity
- handle surveillance equipment assisting and caring
- identify security threats assisting and caring
- respond to enquiries assisting and caring
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an immigration officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- airport security officer 58% covered · difficulty 38.1
- police officer 47% covered · difficulty 47.4
- intelligence officer 44% covered · difficulty 49.1
- immigration adviser 44% covered · difficulty 49.2
- customs and excise officer 42% covered · difficulty 51.2
- prison officer 42% covered · difficulty 51.2
- civil enforcement officer 40% covered · difficulty 53.1
- juvenile correctional officer 40% covered · difficulty 53.1
- street warden 40% covered · difficulty 53.1
- coastguard watch officer 30% covered · difficulty 60.5
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Immigration officer is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an immigration officer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.