Originally Posted by
trmbn65
Another HUGE disadvantage is the time it takes to be conditionally approved. Global Entry usually takes less than a week. We have reports of NEXUS taking anywhere from 3 to 12 weeks. The approval time varies quite a bit. And we can safely assume that Canada is holding everything up because the requirements, in the eyes of CBP, for NEXUS and Global Entry are identical.
Plausible but not necessarily accurate. FT members with extended approval times called and was told CBP was the hold up at the beginning of the year.
NEXUS members from certain countries got suspended without reason at the beginning of the year by CBP. Shows that CBP is the more “cautious” agency.
The requirements are also not the same as GE is limited to citizens of certain countries and US LPR while NEXUS be available to anyone if they are Canadian LPR. US LPR have records held by US agencies (eg more accesible) but you can’t say the same for Canadian LPR having records held by US agencies. Furthermore GE requires passport. NEXUS does not.
We also don’t know if CBP approval process are indeed different. We also don’t know if they assign different teams to approval different TTP or if one team approvals all TTP. Are those teams staffed appropriately?
NEXUS approvals do tend to take longer than GE but lots of assumptions being made by saying CBSA is the hold up without knowing internal processes.