no indian citizen can be approved for global entry unless approval comes from the mea first....it seems as if the mea sends the information to both the finance & home ministries for approval before finally passing on the application to the cbp....somewhere down the line a decision was taken to only get approval from the finance ministry for non indian residents & a number of these applicants were approved by the mea & have already received global entry from the cbp....all this information has been mentioned multiple times in this thread....