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Old Oct 16, 2009, 7:33 pm
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LessO2
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Originally Posted by Bow Rider
If you enroll in Global Express you can return to the US from Canada to any GE airport without being enrolled in Nexus. The GE kiosks are in US airports.
The last part is correct. However most major Canadian airports (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax) all have U.S. preclearance areas. They are fitted with NEXUS, not Global Entry machines.

If you fly in from a Canadian airport that doesn't have U.S. preclearance areas (Victoria, Saskatoon, Kelowna, for example), you can use the GE machine since you will have to clear when you arrive in the U.S.


Originally Posted by Bow Rider
The Nexus kiosks are in Canadian airports and give you a paper to give to the US CBP.
Yes, but only in the pre-clearance airports as advertised above.


Originally Posted by Bow Rider
Is all that right? And if you are in Nexus can you return to any US airport with that paper, and get through without waiting in the usual line?
Yes, you get the paper, but you will do the pre-clearance thing at the aforementioned airports.

There will not be a situation where you carry the document onto an airplane.

Make sense?
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