340 R. Vecellio Segate passports of the future should be based on skills and health rather than nationality. […] This early phase of the post-pandemic world provides a unique opportunity to pre-design the next migration system, one better suited to a global population constantly searching for political, social, and/or ecological stability. But to get there we’ll have to embrace blockchain technologies, and biometrics – which together would enable a decentralized global platform for individual mobility. While skills and health are not wide enough criteria to encompass for the design of tomorrow’s future (“need” being another important variable, as extensively demonstrated supra), the cited passage does insightfully project us onto the new era of migration management, where borders lose significance while talent, necessity, and opportunity drive the crafting of a decentralised system of identity onboarding for all. Decentralised, however, is not yet tantamount to document-free. In this regard, it is in all States’ interests to negotiate standards that can speed up border procedures and identity processing. Destination countries will need to quickly verify an unprecedented amount and variety of foreign IDs against “templates”, and whenever a new identity onboarding was deemed necessary, States attracting and welcoming digital nomads will need to perform it into a format that can approximate most templates of relevance for the onboardee’s business lifestyle and travel habits, so as to reduce the burden for fellow “remoteness-friendly” jurisdictions. In these contexts, what authorities will need to ensure is that onboarding is not pursued or “hoped-for” by wealthy individuals to escape regulatory reach from other jurisdictions, in particular as related to so-called “white-collar” crimes, high-profile transnational mafia affairs, and money laundering. 8 Policy Recommendations 8.1 What Would Technical Standards Need to Ensure? For an identity system to be run digitally, identification, authentication, and authorisation should all be performed digitally (Nyst et al. 2016, 28). Standards in this domain should be devised in such a way that government officials can access identity data but not alter it, nor should they be able to store it into or share and transfer it across multiple unrelated departments, including via simple measures such as restraints on taking screenshots. The ultimate “switch-off control” for each onboardee’s profile should rest with them, in such a way that if the regime changes or any other political upheaval places them at risk, migrants are allowed to straighforwardly delete their data as a last-resort option. If they do choose this extreme option, migrants should be under an obligation to create a new identity with which the new