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NEXUS First Time Applications Information and Processing Timelines

Old Mar 6, 2017, 1:27 pm
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CBSA published NEXUS processing times to get to conditional approval can be found here. The most recently published processing time is below, along with a short history of recent official published times. A longer history of published wait times is here, via the Internet Archive Wayback machine. Please post your personal experiences below in the thread. All posts are appreciated. Thank you/Merci!

5 business days as of 2020-04-29
30 business days as of 2020-02-17
39 business days as of 2019-10-07
40 business days as of 2019-08-28
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NEXUS First Time Applications Information and Processing Timelines

Old Aug 24, 2016, 6:55 pm
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Keep checking, and I mean at least every half hour. There is a 1 day online cancellation cutoff, so you are in the sweet spot to grab a 8/26 slot. Tough when only a single opens up, but sometimes families cancel. I speak from recent experience as I had my interview at Champlain a few days ago and got the appt 2 days before.
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Old Aug 24, 2016, 7:05 pm
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Originally Posted by NanD
Husband and my Nexus application were conditionally approved today.

Both applied June 15, 2016
Conditionally approved August 24, 2016 @ 1:09 AM EST
First available interview appointments at Champlain, NY, on August 29, 2016
Our interviews scheduled for Sept 6, 2016

Appreciated the information learned here as enabled us to understand the process better and realize our timing was in line with others. Thanks to all who shared.
Congrats. 70 days to very typical at this point for conditional approval. I had thought that they might return to the old 2-3 week window from earlier this year, but that does not appear to be happening yet. If you are bored, check out the time frames in the corresponding Global Entry thread. People are getting conditional approvals in 1-2 weeks, but open appointment blocks are not until 2017 at many locations. As always, thank you for contributing your experiences to this thread.
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Old Aug 24, 2016, 9:14 pm
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I am keep trying but no luck so far. I booked 17th september (upon my return from New Zealand) at Fort Erie. However, I would love to get something at YYZ or Niagara falls tomorrow or on Friday
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Old Aug 24, 2016, 10:02 pm
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Originally Posted by Crazystar
I am keep trying but no luck so far. I booked 17th september (upon my return from New Zealand) at Fort Erie. However, I would love to get something at YYZ or Niagara falls tomorrow or on Friday
Update: I got 27th Aug interview appointment (rescheduled from 17th September) at 11 am at yyz. My flight is at 5:15 pm so I will check if somehow I can get 2 pm appointment.
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Old Aug 25, 2016, 9:43 am
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I checked when I flew into yul on my application (had lots of time). Canada side approved it and it's pending on the usa side. Called up my local GE office and left them a message. Figured it wouldn't hurt. After next week, I won't be in Canada until Dec, so hopefully it'll get approved soon.
At worse I'll take a road trip to Detroit.
What's the maximum time one can wait after approval to schedule a appointment?

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Old Aug 25, 2016, 2:47 pm
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My wife received her approval at 11:09 this morning.
The kids and I had our interviews today at 4:00 & 4:30 @ Fort Erie. My wife joined us. Unfortunately they could not take her, as they were backed up today.
We arrived at about 3:15, left by 4:15.
They said card should be in the mail in about 10 days. A little waiting, but pretty seamless.
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Old Aug 25, 2016, 3:52 pm
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All approved, now waiting for cards

Applied May 31, conditional approval Aug 13, and interview times were wide open in Pembina and Warroad. All 5 of us inteviewed today, took maybe 30 minutes, couldn't get fingerprints for 4YO and finally gave up. Was told that is common for little kids. The machine just wouldn't register them. Now we wait for the cards! Good luck to everyone.

EDIT: forgot to mention I needed nothing but our passports. I brought the letters, birth certificates for the kids and drivers licenses but they didn't look at anything except passports.

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Old Aug 25, 2016, 5:03 pm
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Originally Posted by jason8612
I checked when I flew into yul on my application (had lots of time). Canada side approved it and it's pending on the usa side. Called up my local GE office and left them a message. Figured it wouldn't hurt. After next week, I won't be in Canada until Dec, so hopefully it'll get approved soon.
At worse I'll take a road trip to Detroit.
What's the maximum time one can wait after approval to schedule a appointment?
You must schedule an appointment within thirty days, but there's no cost or penalty to change it, so there's no reason to ever wait. At worst you'll have the appointment you picked first, at best you'll see a dropout and get a next day appointment
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Old Aug 25, 2016, 7:03 pm
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Originally Posted by jason8612
I checked when I flew into yul on my application (had lots of time). Canada side approved it and it's pending on the usa side. Called up my local GE office and left them a message. Figured it wouldn't hurt. After next week, I won't be in Canada until Dec, so hopefully it'll get approved soon.
At worse I'll take a road trip to Detroit.
What's the maximum time one can wait after approval to schedule a appointment?
Schedule it out and keep movinhmg it back until it's convenient for you.
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Old Aug 26, 2016, 1:45 pm
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Quick approval post interview

I was one of the mid-May (2016) applicants to NEXUS who, in spite of already having Global Entry, experienced a pretty long wait (> 11 weeks) until receiving my conditional approval. Today, I had my interview and iris-scan in Vancouver (downtown) and was delighted to receive an email, just 30-45 minutes later, to my GOES account to inform me of my final approval.

<off topic discussion of GE card validity post NEXUS approval was moved to the The NEXUS Information Thread>

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Old Aug 28, 2016, 1:25 pm
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Joined just to provide an additional data point
Applied 6/12
Conditional Approval 8/28
Interview for 9/6. I could have grabbed one for the 31st but this works better for my schedule
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Old Aug 28, 2016, 8:39 pm
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Time Line

Family of 4.

Date applied: 6-24-16 x 3 members. 6-25-16 X 1.

Conditional approval: 10.15 PM eastern time on 8-28-16 for one family member, applied on 6-24-16.

Waiting for 3 others.
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Old Aug 29, 2016, 6:00 am
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Update:
Family of 4.

Date applied: 6-24-16 x 3 members. 6-25-16 X 1.

Conditional approval: 10.15 PM eastern time on 8-28-16 for two family members, applied on 6-24-16.

Waiting for 2 others.
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Old Aug 29, 2016, 8:47 am
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Nice burst of conditional approvals, thanks all for your updates, should start seeing some July approvals next week.
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Old Aug 29, 2016, 10:32 am
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Thanks! Encouraged.

Originally Posted by nexid
Update:
Family of 4.

Date applied: 6-24-16 x 3 members. 6-25-16 X 1.

Conditional approval: 10.15 PM eastern time on 8-28-16 for two family members, applied on 6-24-16.

Waiting for 2 others.
This is encouraging. I applied on 6/25, status is still pending review.

I've got a trip coming up on Sept 18 and another in Oct. Woukd be fantastic to get this all set by then.
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