Originally Posted by
NC_Girl
I was wondering about PreCheck. I really didn't pay much attention to it before and I thought it might be completely random as I had it one time but I traveled with my aunt several times who is NOT a frequent traveler but got it somehow every leg of every trip we have taken. She is retired FBI, did that somehow automatically get her PreCheck? is it that easy to cross-referenced it just by her name?
Precheck is increasingly random. It's frustrating, having paid to go through the Global Entry background check process and then to an interview at an inconvenient location, to be stuck behind 20 people in the precheck line that (a) are confused as to why they are in a special line and (b) argue with the TSA when they are told not to take off their shoes. It really slows the process down and is unfair to those who paid. It's my sense that they are randomly giving precheck to those over 70 and women in their late 40's and up that rarely travel.