Originally Posted by
woglet86
Hi all,
Applied and approved for GE last month - very impressed so far.
I need to renew my UK passport in the next couple of months. I think this generates a new passport number. I believe I can update my passport details in my GOES account online. However, at my interview, the officer told me I would have to drop into an enrolment office with my new passport to get it all linked up.
My question is, on my next trip to the US, how should I enter? Use the GE line with the new passport, assuming it will not let me through, then see an officer? Or should GE work fine assuming I have updated my passport online? Or third option, don't try to use GE at all, until I have entered the US the slow way and visited the enrolment office?
Many thanks
Note: I don't have any experience with updating my passport, but when I get to that stage I'd go for the second option: update the passport number online (and make sure you have a new ESTA or Visa for that passport), use the GE machine, take it from there. If the system works as expected, you'll get admitted. If it doesn't you *might* get an X.
Absolute worst case the machine won't recognise you, in which case you can always try going to the officer at the desk and tell him you got a new passport, updated it online, and the machine didn't recognise you. It's probably worth bringing a copy of your GE enrollment letter: (A) so that they don't think you're just trying to blag your way through the GE lanes, (B) the letter contains your TTN which they seem to need for finding you in their system (useful at the enrollment office too, at least based on my experiences when updating other GE info there).