Originally Posted by
Acid
It was confusing at JFK-T7. When I asked the primary inspector that I want to go to EOA he just sent me to secondary inspection. There I sat for a while and finally the secondary agent called the the agent who processed me to ask why I was refereed as he could find no issue/notes. Secondary inspection agent apologized and then took he to a cubicle where another agent updated my I-797(at first he told me it can be done online as he has never done it and I told him it wasn't possible - he was friendly and said lets try)
I've only been through T4 after having GE 2yrs ago. It has been pretty smooth always. I think it's mostly Indian national who will have visa dependent GE. Most of the participants of other countries will have ESTA linked so mostly passport dependent. It will take sometime before updates becomes smoother for us.
Hopefully, a simple visa issuance automatically gets linked to GE through passport as it's all connected anyway.