sorry my friend but you are grossly misinformed....i wish i was the ambassador....then i would have already been approved for global entry....

read the first few posts in this thread & you will get an idea of the timeline....they started taking applications towards the end of june....if i remember correctly then i applied on the 29th of june....i received the email from passport seva on the 2nd of july & my appointment was fixed for the next day, 3rd of july....post # 21 has all the details of what happened at the interview....

there are other posters on this thread who also submitted their applications well before the 7th of july....the announcement you are talking about is when the cbp started offering refunds to those who had applied & didn't know they had to go back to india for their police verification....this was over a week after they had already started taking applications....