Traveling with Non-GE/NEXUS Companions/Family Members
Jan 3, 2016, 2:44 pm
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So I'm flying - me, spouse, and 3 month old child. All US passport holders. Spouse and I have GE. Child doesn't (we have her GE "interview" scheduled 1.5 hours after arrival in the same terminal).
Airport has GE, APC, and MPC. What's our best option? If baby anyways MUST use MPC or APC, any benefit for either parent to use GE kiosk?
If both parents use GE and baby uses MPC/APC, can we still use the GE line at customs?
Airport has GE, APC, and MPC. What's our best option? If baby anyways MUST use MPC or APC, any benefit for either parent to use GE kiosk?
If both parents use GE and baby uses MPC/APC, can we still use the GE line at customs?
Dec 11, 2016, 9:55 am
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guys - I applied for 3 adults in the household but forgot our 6 month old. With global entry, do they simply allow the baby to come through with the adult are they fairly strict about this and will make us all stand in the regular line?
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Dec 11, 2016, 3:41 pm
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Only Global Entry members are allowed to use GE kiosks. Why not apply GE for your 6 months old now. It should not take that long.
Dec 11, 2016, 4:06 pm
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The baby will need its own declaration form done via non-GE means. While the GE adults can use the GE kiosk and use the GE receipts, the household travel party should clear together in a non-GE line and can present the GE receipts along with the baby's declaration receipt/form (APC kiosk printed, printed form filled by pen, MPC).
Dec 15, 2016, 12:50 am
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Don't try to pass through the GE line with an non-enrolled baby, both at passport control and at baggage control. It is one of their points of emphasis, each person passing through the GE line must be in GE, no matter the age.
Dec 15, 2016, 1:56 am
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That is indeed generally the case. The primary exception to that is where the GE line is co-mingled. For example, as where GE and MPC are co-mingled -- something that BOS has had; but then the party must all have used GE and/or MPC.
Dec 16, 2016, 10:40 am
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Global Entry members using the regular line
If as UK citizens who have global entry we opt to use the long line and not the GE machines do we need to complete the Customs and Border Protection Declaration Form 6059B?
Reason being as we will have a non GE person with us.
Reason being as we will have a non GE person with us.
Dec 16, 2016, 11:12 am
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Yes; you will need to complete that form by hand or (if applicable) use an APC kiosk to do the declaration, for at least the non-GE person in your travel party.
Dec 16, 2016, 11:18 am
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Thanks.
She can't use the machine as she hasn't been into the USA before with this passport.
I just wasn't sure if we had to complete the form for ourselves. We will do that.
She can't use the machine as she hasn't been into the USA before with this passport.
I just wasn't sure if we had to complete the form for ourselves. We will do that.
Dec 16, 2016, 11:32 am
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If you're part of the same travel party and a single family/household, then you should go together via the regular channel she (the non-GE member) would use and declare things the same way as with her. What I've also sometimes seen done in these situations is for GE members to use the GE kiosk and then go into the regular line applicable to the non-GE member and present a declaration form/receipt for the non-GE passenger along with all the passports and with the GE receipts for the GE members. CBP then will sometimes take all the forms and receipts together and staple them for presentation for customs control just after baggage claim.
Jan 14, 2017, 10:34 pm
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This thread is about using the Global Entry kiosks when traveling with non GE companions. Several posts discussing whether family members traveling with a Global Entry member receive PreCheck privileges were move to the following thread:
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Jan 29, 2017, 3:45 am
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Sorry to dredge up an old thread, this is the most recent one on the topic I can find.
I'm a UK passport holder, recently got GE. My wife is a US passport holder, no GE.
It's the first time we're travelling to the US together. I'm assuming the correct process here is that we split up, I use the GE lane, she uses the APC lane, and we meet up in the baggage hall? And then we need to clear customs separately too?
I'm a UK passport holder, recently got GE. My wife is a US passport holder, no GE.
It's the first time we're travelling to the US together. I'm assuming the correct process here is that we split up, I use the GE lane, she uses the APC lane, and we meet up in the baggage hall? And then we need to clear customs separately too?
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Sorry to dredge up an old thread, this is the most recent one on the topic I can find.
I'm a UK passport holder, recently got GE. My wife is a US passport holder, no GE.
It's the first time we're travelling to the US together. I'm assuming the correct process here is that we split up, I use the GE lane, she uses the APC lane, and we meet up in the baggage hall? And then we need to clear customs separately too?
I'm a UK passport holder, recently got GE. My wife is a US passport holder, no GE.
It's the first time we're travelling to the US together. I'm assuming the correct process here is that we split up, I use the GE lane, she uses the APC lane, and we meet up in the baggage hall? And then we need to clear customs separately too?
