cdoobiest

Yes, thanks to the other posters for support. Amex Plat holder for 5 years. Don't travel as much but the $200 reimbursement for airline credit using gift card method was useful to justify card. Now that card annual fee up from $450 to $550 and I have little use for $200 Amex credit, I am cancelling. Never have used global entry with Amex as I have had it for the last 5 years but my birthday was just a few days ago and I am eligible for renewal. Hence, the last hurrah for reimbursement. Not trying to game the system. I appreciate everyone's responses and support!

Zorak

FWIW I paid for GE renewals for myself and a family member (neither one on an AMEX Plat actually -- Bonvoy Brilliant and CSR -- but that shouldn't matter for the purposes of this specific question) in the last 2 months and both charges posted within 1-2 days.

DMSFCA

I apologize for my judgy response, I thought this was just a churn card and you were just trying to milk a first year fee waiver or something.

Sorry I jumped to conclusions!

dhuey

Dec. 14 $100 Global Entry renewal charge on Business Platinum
Dec. 19 $100 statement credit

It's a very nice card benefit.

ajc1970

I've had my Biz Plat for 3 years now and can't remember if I've used the $100 Global entry credit on it. Without searching through all my past transactions, is there a quick way to determine if I've used it (similar to the "meter" for the annual $200 airline reimbursement)?

FlyingHighlander

Not aware of any tracker for this benefit. I have used it several times and dont recall receiving/seeing anything like that.

You could try logging in to the full website, go to statements and activity > custom date range > search for global. It's not clear what the date limits are but I can get it working ok for a 2 year search, and see all my credits called "TSA GLOBAL ENTRY FEE CREDIT".

If you do end up reviewing statements, the credits are always at the top in the Payments and Credits section, so it may not too time consuming.

Or call Amex and ask

sdix

Looks like all members in the state of NY will be loosing the ability to renew or enroll in Global Entry. Another lost benefit but at least not Amex's fault.

Explore

I haven't charged a TSE Pre or Global Entry application fee to my Amex Consumer and Business Platinum cards, because I used a non-Amex card. If I charge a friend's application fee to my card, will I receive a statement credit? They are not an authorized user on my accounts.

Thx..

Zorak

All that matters for the credit is that the charge posts from the correct merchant*, not who the application is for (I doubt they even get that info).

*I have successfully done this in the last month or so (but also on other occasions). It'll post as something like "US Customs/Trusted Traveler"

esaphire3

I remember reading somewhere, may have been on helpmebuildcredit.com but not for sure, that any authorized user gets a tsa precheck credit even if you add on the free level. Anybody heard of this or tried it?

mia

I moved your question into a more specific thread. To clarify, you are asking if free employee Green Cards on a Business Platinum card have the Global Entry/Precheck reimbursement benefit?

Sky Dreamer

Yes I have done this twice with two different cards.

imnotalawyer

esaphire3 I have not tried it on other cards but I do know that, for the Personal Amex Platinum card, if you add an authorized user under the "Add No Annual Fee Additional Gold Cards" benefit (I really hate that confusing branding) that the Platinum Gold Authorized User will receive their own independent Global Entry credit which is in addition to that of the primary Platinum cardholder.

For instance, I have an Amex Platinum card and I have set my wife up as a Gold AU on the account. I have charged my Global Entry application to my Platinum and she charged her Global Entry application on her Gold AU. I received two separate $100 credits on my statement for these applications.

esaphire3

I contacted the site to clarify and they responded that the post maistakenly said the business platinum but it really meant for the personal platinum

emcampbe

Resurrecting this thread for now.

Those in the Chase forum are now reporting that CSR (and potentially some other Chase cards) are now adding Nexus reimbursement to the list of available options for trusted traveller programs, and that perhaps this was related to the Aeroplan card they just launched. Thread over there includes a screenshot of someone having already received a credit.

Currently, Amex specifically excludes Nexus reimbursement in the terms (despite it charging from the same place), and I'm not aware of any card with a GE/Precheck credit until now that had actually been reimbursing for Nexus. To be honest, I'm not sure why - Nexus (at least, at retail) is half the cost. I'm not sure how this credit is handled by the issuers (do they just pay for the reimbursement all themselves...or is there some sort of deal with DHS where they help as a way to boost enrollment). Either way, wondering if anyone thinks Amex (or other issuers) might add Nexus to the list, now that Chase has. I'd love to see that.

My wife's needs to renew in the next few months, so we'll be putting it on the CSR. Mine renews a bit later in 2022, so would be helpful if Amex added this benefit as well.

This has always been annoying to me. As a dual citizen, who lives in the US but with lots of friends/family in Canada, we (outside of a pandemic), usually travel between the 2 at least 3-4+times a year. So GE on its own makes zero sense, so I've always just paid for it.