Originally Posted by
gallo1801
Update: I called the YUL NEXUS office and left a voice mail on Friday May 20th after having my interview there on Sunday May 15th and not getting my approval email or seeing the approval on GOES. I just got a call today from a Canadian agent at YUL reponding to my VM from a week ago and she said to be patient as it could take up to 6 weeks to get approved (wait, what? after the intewview?) and to call back then if I still didnt' see any approval on GOES. I check my email at lunch at lo and behold I had an email! Checked my GOES and I had my approval. Interesting. Tomorrow is my 10 business days that they say the card should come in. Not holding my breath, but not really worried as I see it online now. I am going to MEX tomorrow for the holiday weekend and am curious to see if 1) They give me precheck after I updated my KTN with my new NEXUS id and 2) If the GE lanes work when I get back to ATL. Hoping for the precheck mostly! So ready to bypass these damn lines. Cheers.
You should be able to do both-- your approval letter should say that you can use your NEXUS card when you receive and activate it, but the next paragraph should say you can begin using GE "immediately." I don't recall it commenting on TSA Pre (I imagine since that's run by TSA not CBP) but I think that's assumed. Of course, like everything with this program, the caveat: who knows, we'll see, something may have changed, some times things don't work, etc.