Originally Posted by
mre5765
Well got my first secondary today, this one at IAD. No X on the GE receipt, got to the customs exit and was directed to secondary inspection. Asked a bunch of stupid, repetitive questions that anyone could answer from google (who I work for, what I do) and DHSes own records (how long was I gone, where do I live, am I resident of the USA [idiot, that's a green card is: permanent resident]) plus the CBP officer clearly was bored because 1/10th into the bag search he gave up.
Pointless program if secondaries are not going to be selected by GE kiosk and the idiots in DHS aren't going to use the private info I volunteered as part of the program for secondaries. Probably not going to renew.
Just having GE does not exempt you from random secondaries. I got one in the past year - and GE still saved me a total of about 24 hours of waiting in immigration lines and helped me make some very tight connections. If you call that "pointless", then you can just go back to those immigration lines by not renewing. Have fun.