Originally Posted by
Airportismyadobe
Hi,
I'm an 18 year old college student who's interested in Global Entry because I Travel to to asia and australia every year. It would be nice to be able to use australia's smartgates and to avoid long lines on the way back.
However, on the global entry application form it wants 5 years of employment history. I wasn't working during high school so I just put down unemployed as from 2008 to january 2013 (I now intern at a small lab company)
I'm worried I may be denied since I have little employment history.
I am just wondering; What actually happens at a global entry application interview? Do they need an application to have employment history?
What are other peoples experience's with the global entry interview?
Thanks.
Take one hurdle at a time, if they accept your application, then there probably wasn't any problem, and you shouldn't have trouble at the interview. If you get
rejected, you won't have to worry about the interview. [Rejections can be appealed through their Ombudsman.]
Were there any arrests, convictions in the past? These would be more important than employment.
[For many/most, from reports here on FT, they take your fingerprints, picture, update your pp in their system, show a short movie clip of how the system works and send you on your way--5 to 10 minutes at the most.]
The big minus of rejection is that you lose your $100 fee.