sekhmet101

Hubby used Capital One and has yet to be refunded. He's contacting them now for a refund.

ChurchillW

I'm not sure if the credit card companies do this directly to businesses, but I run a small non-profit and when a member initiates a chargeback with their credit card company, PayPal (I think, could be the credit card company) charges our non-profit $35 for each chargeback. If the credit card companies do this too, this would be an easy way for the DHS to track which people initiated a chargeback for their Global Entry application fees and use it against them.

Ari

Global Entry revocation as retribution for asking CBP for your money back is not unheard of:


https://www.tampabay.com/news/transp...hing-is-fishy/

J S

I have a NY DL that does not allow me to enter the US (or any other country). My child doesn't have a DL at all. We are talking about GE, not EDL. EDL would be a separate topic. I can see why CBP would need access to EDL data to verify that the DL I am presenting for access to the US is legit. But I still cannot figure out a legitimate reason why my small child, who obviously has not driving record, cannot renew his GE.

deadeye823

Beyond furious here....I've been trying for GE since this past summer. Applied in August with the aim of getting it for my honeymoon in December. Took 5 months to get conditional approval - received the email the day before returning to the US while on the honeymoon. When my wife and I tried to make use of the Enrollment on Arrival at JFK, we were told that there "wasn't enough staff for that" (this was on Christmas Eve).

I just went to schedule our interviews on the TTP website - all of the sudden, the two NYC based enrollment centers have more than enough availability for interviews! What a pleasant surprise from several months ago, when there was a 2+ month waiting period...I should've known it was too good to be true. Got all the way to the 'time slot' selection, but was completely baffled why I was unable to click any of the times. After 10 min of trial and error, I finally discovered that my application had been deleted from the TTP website...

No refund in sight so far. Do you guys think initiating a chargeback is the move here, or should we wait it out a week or so to see if this decision gets reversed?

STS-134

Personally, I would figure out when is the last day your bank will allow you to initiate a chargeback, and not do it until that day or the day before. If NY gets an injunction, all of these applications may be reinstated, but if you did a chargeback, your application might get pulled.

knownothing

Joel: I would think one would want the security checks. It is not the driver's license - it is that NY will not share the info (ie previous arrests, etc) You should be happy as it makes it safer to fly. If you are a normal NY resident - it is you who voted

GUWonder

Access to NY-residing GE applicants’ arrest history is not why the federal government is doing this application block. The federal government still has access to NY arrest history for applicants.

Flying is safe with or without this NY-resident application ban. DHS having unrestricted access to the NY DMV records via NLETs or anything else isn’t a necessary occurrence for DHS to screen flying travelers and baggage for prohibited weapons, explosives and incendiaries ..... and yet the federal government is using potential (and previous) NY-residing applicants as pawns and fodders just because the federal government dislikes a NY State law and wants to grab attention that sends a signal to various domestic audiences over the federal government’s opposition to the state law and those who may be favorable or indifferent toward such kind of approaches by state and local authorities.

shipcamein

Global Entry is not about prohibited weapons, explosives, and incendiaries. It's about expedited entry upon returning from abroad. It's about deciding if you are who you say you are, and you have the right (or privilege, if foreign) to waltz right in without much hassle.

It's easy to forget the reason for this - but for years ago when you flew in from a foreign nation - you waited in a lonnnnnnnnnng line, only to be asked: Where were you? Why? Business? What's in the bag? And so on - all the while, your PassPort was being examined - and your own ID was being checked against your passport - not because they care about that 3rd bottle of wine in your bag (though some do), but because - if you don't live here - and you forged these documents - they gotta figure it out somehow.

So - along comes GE. With the advent of cool technology and extremely fast networks - they can "see" that you're you -because of fingerprints and eyeballs. Now you can skip the lame questioning, NOT because you aren't possibly sneaking something in - you might be - but because PRIMARILY they are 100% sure you belong here. Everything else is secondary.

How did they get this sure? Because you provided them with a ton of information about yourself and open access to every and any piece of recorded info about your entire life, and you also filled out a lengthy application, and now they can compare the application to this pile of info in front of them. If not all twos plus twos equal fours - - then you might not be you. Doesn't mean you're out. It means more scrutiny.

But by the time you get GE - you deserve it. Now the secondary aspect. Because it's (relatively) easy to "sneak" an extra bottle of wine - or bag of cash - in this way, they could alleviate a lot of that pre-emptively by determining if you are, on the whole, an upstanding citizen. No, past results are not a predictor of future behavior. But ... statistically .. it IS. So if you're a crook now, you'll probably be a crook in the future. Playing the odds.

This means that the CBP has great latitude in declining your application, even if you haven't been convicted of anything. For instance, a friend of mine was declined because he once got popped at the border with a bootleg item (like a fake coach purse). He thought nothing of it, not when he bought it, for sure, and not when they took it...but years later...there it was. Declined. It's that subtle.

Now New York comes along. "Hey, CBP," says NY, "We'd like to be verified as generally upstanding citizens and also residents who belong here, but since some of us do NOT in fact belong here, we'll be hiding some of the info from your prying eyes. But we'd like the program to continue as usual. Thanks."

You can see how positively bonkers and contradictory those two angles are. They can't co-exist. You can make all the excuses for NY and "gov't overreach" accusations (i'm not saying you're wrong) - but the two philosophies and outcomes are - at their very core - completely at odds with one another. It doesn't matter that you don't drive. It matters because ALL THE INFORMATION MATTERS ALL THE TIME. You (NY) do not get to pick what's important to them. CBP picked it. NY opted out. Now NY seems stunned that CBP won’t cave on this issue.

Maybe they will. I kinda doubt it.

One more thing - regarding the DMV and an application for a 12 year old: It says right on the application - if you're applying for your minor child (<18 years of age) then the responsible adult must provide information (about their self, not their child).

knownothing

Once again false facts by the above quote: New York is banned because they are not allowing DPS their DMV records. As others (cf shipcamein) have stated, the global entry is not about weapons, etc. It is about whether you are 1) an allowed entrant to the US (ie not an illegal immigrant) and 2) safe (no criminal history). Most illegal immigrants do not have an arrest record - but they can have a NY driver's license. Say thanks to the DPS!

TWA884

Global Entry is also about being trusted to make a to make a truthful customs declaration and not bringing prohibited items into the US. That's why @shipcamein's friend's GE application was denied because she or he had a history of having been caught bringing a (probably undeclared) prohibited item into the US.

GUWonder

Illegal immigrants resident in NY applying for GE? That is not why the federal government is using past and potential GE applicants resident in NY as pawns and cannon fodder to go after a NY law and get attention for doing so.

GE does not make flying safer. GE is about immigration and customs, regardless of whether or not a person is flying. GE does include PreCheck benefits but that too does not make flying safer.

Interestingly enough, NYS argued that the DHS suspension of GE (and some other TTPs) for new applicants residing in NY makes things more dangerous.

What makes flying safer is effectively stopping prohibited weapons, explosives, incendiaries from getting on planes. Flying is safe enough, with or without GE for NY residents.

knownothing

Again, please don't change the subject. Global Entry is a program of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service that allows pre-approved, low-risk travelers to receive expedited clearance upon arrival into the United States. It has nothing to do with flying. It is to prevent another Fort Hood, Ohio State or Trade Center by keeping terrorists out of the US. It is managed by the US Customs and Border Protection

Pre-Check is another entity only associated with Global Entry that the clearance covers both. It is managed by Homeland Security

GUWonder

How does banning NY residents from GE prevent “another Ft Hood, Ohio State or Trade Center” when DHS (and/or its constituents’ predecessors) at the time of “Ft Hood, Ohio State or Trade Center” had access to data of the sort it claims to have been cut off from this year for NY? Scare stories may be extra fun at around Halloween especially, but I’ve yet to see how such scare stories have relevance to the DHS ban against NY-residing applicants for GE and the other TTPs being used by DHS against NY and its residents.

Ari

I hate again to be the one to make an obvious point, but it is your post that "change[d] the subject" and peculiarly brought up flying in this thread about "Global Entry". (emphasis in original)