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Jul 7, 2019, 7:05 pm

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Mickidon

Join Date: Oct 2006

Posts: 861

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Originally Posted by Markie

My experience on Friday - on the early BA flight:

- Global Entry now in the middle of the hall
- Several (new) machines roped off
- Some of the working machines did not actually work and so people had to use more than one machine
- All GE receipts checked with some people fingerprinted, photo'ed and questioned even with GE
- Staff allowed non-GE people to join GE queue where they had to be fingerprinted, photo'ed and questioned
- GE receipt takem by Immigration so could not be shown at Customs

- Through in 15 minutes from landing

I had a version of this tonight at JFK. Several GE Machines down so a line formed quickly. However, we were all then forced to queue to go to an officer (the line for
for Diplomats and GE) who looked at passports, asked a few questions about the trip - the old school method. There was only one kiosk, so a second line formed at GE
and people, usually able to just walk through, were surprised by this procedure. This officer took our GE printout and we were done. But nothing streamlined about it.

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