Originally Posted by
lancelot21
I'm at 2-1/2 months of waiting for conditional approval. I'm not sure whether this thread makes me feel better or worse. It makes me realize that I'm not alone in it being slow. But it also makes me realize I might need to wait a lot more time!
I didn't realize my GE was expiring until I came into the country in early November and the machine told me my membership had expired. I subsequently found a regular monthly email over the preceding year reminding me it was about to expire--but the messages had all bypassed my inbox and I'd missed them. So I reapplied two weeks after expiration. Every time I've flown since, I've been annoyed about this. Mainly annoyed at not having TSA pre; I've come back into the country three times with no queues at immigration.
Next time, mark your calendar new expiration date and remind yourself to renew 364 days before expiration date. Instead of relying an email reminder from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.