Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
Before they allowed kids younger than 14 in the program I took my infants through GE several times and got head of the line on others when travelling with adult family and the kids. Now, it is expressly prohibited but before they added the under 14rule while you were not supposed to bring your kids many agents did allow it and there are many stories written on this site of it happening. I actually had an agent in Newark see my GE sticker from 30 feet away and pull us all out of line to the front. YMMV.
Front of line, perhaps. But they still had to be processed.
OT: Makes me wonder how it works if you fly to Canada or Mexico and then drive back over the border (where the agent usually just glances at you and waves you through, without swiping your passport into the system). How would the CBP computer system know you had returned Stateside? Could foul things up the next time you try to leave the country by air and and the airline swipes your passport for APIS purposes prior to boarding pass issuance.
(Or are all U.S. land border stations swiping individual passports/WHTI-complaint documents for each and every traveler nowadays?)