Originally Posted by
Tower18
If you get GE, does that do anything toward getting NEXUS? I want to get GE but also travel to Canada by car with some frequency, so NEXUS would be good as well...so does the order matter? Do I need NEXUS first, which gets me GE? Or can I get GE and then complete the retina scan to get NEXUS?
Canada needs to perform a background check on you as well. They do one for NEXUS applicants but they're uninterested (for obvious reasons) in GE applicants.
The US gives NEXUS members GE because they've undergone the same (or at least very similar) checks by the US.