Thank you. By the way, I've read in this thread that it took 14 days to process the pre-approval. By the time I will arrive it will be around a week (or a little over it). I hope this is not an issue.

I will post back here assuming I keep my TSA flight and not change to TPE.

My passport is nearly full so I really don't want to receive any additional stamps, if that can be avoided.

Please keep us updated. ^

Reporting back...

It is not possible to register or do the interview at TSA airport. Upon landing, I’ve confirmed this with two Taiwan immigration agents. They said the database is different and only in TPE there is access to it.

Thank you for the data point. FWIW, I was able to use e-Gate on a departing flight at TSA, so once you're registered you should be good to use e-Gate everywhere.

As an update, upon showing up at TPE T2, in what I understood to be departures (i.e, passport control), I was told that the registration is before security, not when you get to the passport control (which is after security). So after all this effort, and I still haven't been able to register.

Yes, it's by the check-in counters on the terminal entrance side.

The location of initial contact is well-documented in this thread and the official literature.

Also, just for clarity, they do offer the process on arrival prior to clearing immigration.

Thank you. I will register upon arrival next time.

As an update, Mrs. Majuki and I flew to PVG (from the US), and she didn't have any issues using her US passport with a valid 10-year visa to enter. She exited on the US passport as well but provided the Taiwan passport to BR upon check-in at PVG when headed to TPE. The only thing is they asked for was Mrs. Majuki's Chinese name when entering at PVG.

I have now been asked, "你有ARC嗎?" at check-in with both BR and JL almost every time when I'm departing upon not seeing any entry stamps in my passport. For others enrolled in e-Gate for Global Entry, do you have a stamp on the endorsements page of your passport? Mrs. Majuki has this on the last page of her Taiwan passport that says, "e-Gate Immigration Stamp Exempted". I may be mistaken, but I thought I read somewhere that because GE doesn't make any indication of enrollment as part of the reciprocity with e-Gate that NIA makes no indication of e-Gate program enrollment. However, it would avoid the exercise of ticketing agents thumbing back and forth through my passport and upon absence of an entry stamp asking for my non-existent ARC. The check-in agents are always skeptical that I have e-Gate access. However, if I'm leaving, wouldn't that between me and NIA? I don't understand the airline's interest in checking for entry stamps upon departure.

There's nothing in the passport to show membership in the e-Gate reciprocity program. You need to tell the check-in agent that you are an e-Gate program member or of course they're going to search through your passport for the entry stamp. IME the check-in agents can now verify your entry record at the check-in desk so there should be no further issues.

BR agents are always going to do things by the book. That's just the company culture (hence why so many FT'ers on here describe BR as 'very Japanese').

I get that BR (and certainly JL) will do things by the book. However, why is an airline check-in agent obsessed with finding an entry stamp? The only thing I can think of is making sure they match the entry passport. For instance, there might be cases where a traveler will have more than one passport. I go back to my original question of asking wouldn't this be between the traveler and NIA, not anything involving the airline, if there were an issue?

My question is then a repeat of what I had asked earlier. Why don't we get the standard e-Gate enrollment stamp like what Mrs. Majuki has in her green passport? It's a generic stamp that simply indicates you're exempted from an immigration stamp due to enrollment with e-Gate. I remember reading - but I am unable to find a reference so may have imagined this - that the reason is because Global Entry doesn't have any indication of enrollment status, unless you're a US citizen or permanent resident where you'll get a card, and they're taking the reciprocity literally. Do enrolled Koreans and Australians get a stamp exempted stamp?

I will proactively offer that I used e-Gate to enter next time, but I expect the check-in agent to still go through every page of my passport searching for a stamp. To the typical check-in agent at TPE, the only known situation of being able to use e-Gate with a US passport is when the traveler has an ARC or APRC.

The answer is obvious, isn't it? Someone in charge at BR (and apparently JL, as well) believes that it is a necessary policy to comply with some regulation somewhere, and so the check-in agents follow the procedure. The fact that JL and others do it suggests that it is not something BR just made up, even if they're all doing it for CYA purposes.

I don't at all understand the reluctance to inform the check-in agent that you are an e-Gate reciprocity program member. As I mentioned previously, on all my recent trips, the check-in process went smoothly when I told the check-in agent I entered via e-Gate; they did not waste time looking for an entry stamp, and they were able to handle everything immediately at the check-in counter. BR's policies may appear to be stubborn or ridiculous, but you can either be pragmatic about it or equally intransigent.

There is no reluctance or intransigence on my part. Next time I will proactively inform the check-in agent that I entered via e-Gate and report back.

This is the stamp on the last page of my Australian passport showing I've been enrolled in the e-Gate program (I have no Global Entry enrolment).

If Taiwan NIA stamps Australian passports but not US passports, I can see this is going to make check-in GAs' heads spin.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...8891e06125.jpg

This is the stamp Mrs. Majuki has in her Taiwan passport, and this is the problem I face. Upon saying 'e-Gate', the check-in agent flips to the endorsements page. Since the stamp isn't there, the check-in agent remains skeptical.