"border passage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can refer to the act or process of crossing a border, either physically or metaphorically. Example: After hours of waiting and answering questions at the immigration office, she finally completed her border passage and was allowed to enter the country.
Leila Ahmed, a professor at the Harvard Divinity School who grew up in Cairo, described her childhood hatred of fusha in a memoir, "A Border Passage".
At the border passage to Israel, the sick and dying lie on stretchers for hours before the metal gates, seeking admission for treatment that their hospitals cannot provide for lack of medicines or equipment.
From Jerusalem, many people make the pilgrimage six miles south to Bethlehem, in a West Bank area under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority (Israel and the Palestinian Authority facilitate border passage at this time of year, with passports still required).
They pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to make the crossing from Libya to Italy, by far the most dangerous border passage for migrants in the world.
Many EU states have addressed the issue as a security dilemma, putting up walls or proposing anti-migration laws instead of allowing for safe border passage or access to asylum procedures.
I was desperately seeking solace in my faith after 9/11 and I returned to A Border Passage, in which Leila Ahmed explains her conception of Women's Islam which gave me hope, solace and re-affirmation of my faith.
This sounds like support for efforts by some European Union member governments to tighten the open border-passage provisions of the community's internal controls.
It is an art of redefining boundaries, of articulating thresholds, bridges, edges, borders and passages.
As the Calderón administration has discovered, however, the U.S.-Mexico border provides easy passage for more than just immigrants.
The border contain the passage from the Hebrew Bible relating to the candelabrum that Moses built in the desert and placed in the Tabernacle.
Any fight at the border over the passage of the lorries into Ukraine could erupt into a wider clash presaging Mr Putin calling in the troops.
