stablishment of secure and reliable connection points. A main difficulty being dealt with when designing and implementing Migration Information Systems is to find a universal and standardized way to interoperate with the different kinds of applica- tions and tools, which adopt proprietary interfaces, limited communication proto- cols, and lack of scalability. The fulfillment of this requirement necessitates the provision of collaborative tools to national stakeholders, decision makers and migra- tion organizations in order for them to be able to continuously and collaboratively identify differences, gaps, and barriers, taking into account that they have better knowledge than anyone on their systems, procedures, and migration policies. Reusability: The goals behind service reusability are tied directly to some of the most strategic objectives of service-oriented computing, which should be strongly supported by every synchronous Migration Information System's integration. These objectives are as follows: Allow for service logic to be repeatedly leveraged overtime SO as to achieve an increasingly high return on the initial investment of delivering the service. Increase business agility on a migration-based level by enabling the rapid fulfillment of future business automation requirements through wide-scale service composition. Enable the realization of agnostic service models. Enable the creation of service inventories with a high percentage of these agnostic services. Participatory Immigration Policy-Making Rather than embedding functionality that should be deployed across every spe- cific migration awareness service, an advanced Migration Information System should offer advanced and reusable service interfaces in order to easily expand its functionality and build upon it. The main goal is to offer an innovative implemen- tation framework, in which all essential migration awareness functions could be easily reused, configured, and customized in every e-service provided. Societal aspects: The involvement of various 