I am on H1B and did multiple international trips and used global entry kiosks at DFW airport each time on my way back to the US in 2018

Correct. I didn't have any interaction with any officers and was able to walk out after using the kiosk

That can and does happen to USC/PR/ESTA also . It's not am H1 thing. If you had any prior flags for additional customs check, that can explain too. Almost always at EWR I get re-routed for an extra scan while JFK nowadays does not even require filling out the blue customs form when going to a counter

Got an email from Bangalore PSK that "information has been received from all concerned departments and that my file has been approved. Report has been shared with CBP." Now, have to wait for conditional approval, which I don't think will happen until the government shutdown ends.

Looks like I was conditionally approved on Jan 3, just didn't get an email from TTP

Same here, conditionally approved Jan 3rd, no mail from TTP/PSK. (B1/B2 holder)
Timeline -
PSK appointment - 16/8/2018
Police verification - 19/8/2018
Conditional approval - 03/01/2019

Any tips on enrollment on arrival at LAX mid-April, have a domestic connection in 3hrs, wondering if that is enough time.
Any advice is much appreciated.

these Government are day by day making the system worst mostly in India. See now i need by new born baby Passport, but they are asking Aadhaar of the new born baby mandatory. So from where should i get this new born baby aadhaar, there is rush across country to make Aadhaar.

And on top i am shocked reading to articles how with Aadhaar Government is providing passport in 10 days https://aadhaarcard.net.in/how-to-ge...-aadhaar-card/

Go to the Global entry kiosk at immigration in the entry port and scan your passport. Don't have to scan visa. The machine will ask you if you are bringing in anything to declare. Just answer truthfully and go to the agent. He will then stamp your entry on passport. I went in December and immigration at JFK took about 10 minutes and I was out of there and to the baggage carousel. Thank you GOI, GE and CBP.

Approval 18 months after starting the application
 

My wife (F1) and I (H1B) both got out global entry! We applied for this as soon as it was announced in July 2017. Here is our timeline and experience.

Timeline for My wife's application (Mine was similar- PSK was a week later and in Hyderabad):
Global Entry Application - Jul 4, 2017
PSK appointment - Jul 30, 2018 - Bangalore
Police verification - Aug 2, 2018 - Bangalore
Conditional approval - Jan 3, 2019
Appointment and Final Approval- Jan 29, 2019 - Dulles Airport (IAD). Govt. shutdown pushed the date.

Experience:

CBP Application: My wife and I enrolled as soon as the program was announced. Unfortunately, the details about PSK in India and timelines associated with the Indian Govt weren't clear. CBP offered to refund but did say that we could do the PSK stuff up to a year into the future. These were their exact words to my query: "The Government of India (GOI) has imposed the added requirement of having an interview in India. This was imposed after our initial rollout. Therefore, if you submitted an application prior to July 6, 2017 and cannot complete the GOI requirement, then we are offering you a full refund. If you feel that you can complete it, but it will be many months out, that is fine. Your application will remain active for up to a year until you are able to complete. Please reply to this email with your name and PASSID, if you want a refund. We will not offer refunds if you submitted an application after July 6, 2017."Based on this, we decided to keep our application as we had plans to go to India in about a year's time.
PSK Appointment & Police verification: PSK appointment itself cannot be scheduled way in advance but we didn't have issues getting appointments. The process at PSK was fairly streamlined by Indian standards. Took about an hour or so. The head of the PSK was saying that there were tons of applications pending somewhere in the bureaucracy. Police verification followed soon after- the police guy asked me to show up at the police station with copies of passport, PAN, Aadhar etc. Again, very smooth process.

CBP Conditional Approval & Appointment at Center: Honestly, based on timelines posted, I was expecting the conditional approval to come in about 8 months later but it took 5 months for us. I never actually received emails from CBP about conditional approval or final approval. Anyway, on Jan 4th, 2019, I checked my account and there it was conditional approval was granted on Jan 3rd, 2019. We kept scheduling the appointment at IAD (Dulles airport) but had to move it every-time due to the Govt shutdown.

Finally, with the government open, we had our interview on Jan 29th. Since we had moved from our 2017 address- it took a while for the officer to update everything (he was very slow) for the both of us. In addition, my wife had a H4 in 2017 and she moved onto a F1 so he needed to update that as well. Anyway, we never received an email from CBP on approval but the online account showed

I am just super excited to have TSA Pre and GE done for the next 4-5 years. I will need to keep my VISA updated with the enrollment center but those are walk-ins and a minor hassle. I hope that on I don't have to go through the Indian process again the next time!

I completed police verification in Dec 2017. Last week I got an email from passport.admin saying they have sent my file for police verification(again?). Online the status shows the same old GEP initiated blah blah. The same cop came home(I am in US) and even he was confused. I'll be in Mumbai next week so my parents just told him he will come and sort it out with you.

This whole process has been a total joke. I know the police verification was completed as I've got info during inquiry that its pending ministry approvals and the local cop also had told me the police verification was complete - both on his side and main office in town.

I have been using my global entry for the last year. I'm going to India in June 2019 and will come back with my H1B visa extension stamping done in August 2019. Do I have to submit any updates somewhere for global entry when I come back on my new visa?

i don't think so....if you get a new passport then you have to register that with them....i don't think the new visa makes a difference....

So there is a new twist to my saga. This may help some others stuck with no updates. I visitied my local police station today and the cop showed me the status of my file as AD OK - which means they sent back to RPO as Adverse OK. Apparently they did this because there was a slight address change compared to my passport(same building, same floor, we have split the joint flats which were earlier 1 unit). Nowhere on PSK website did it say PCC pending. I am now told I should go to RPO Mumbai with address proof (like seriously - for the nth time -- I gave it during PSK interview - again when cop came home for verification and now RPO Mumbai). I don't even have the original PSK barcode with me anymore. The cop gave me a pic of my file status which shows the AD OK status which I can show to RPO tomorrow. If anyone is stuck for 1.5 yrs now, maybe its worth checking if your PCC was in OK status.

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I got my conditional approval today! Wow, that was quick!
Per my above post, my application was stuck with the RPO due to Adverse OK status on PCC. I met the RPO Mumbai last Friday and she was puzzled too with AD OK as it made no sense to her. It should be either Adverse or OK. She approved my PCC that day. I'm back in US - so will need to make another visit for the interview - so it looks like the home/finance ministries had already cleared me and I was waiting on the PCC mess.

BTW - I didn't get any email for conditional approval - surprised to see it though when I logged in today

for people who have applied recently, how long from the time you submit your global entry application to the time you get the email from passport seva asking you to come in for initial verification????

bumping this question again....

filled in & submitted the ge application for a family member last week....haven't received the passport seva email yet....how long is this taking these days????

You do need to update your new visa number with CBP. It doesn't need an appt., you can simply walk in and update.

I was told during my interview that it can be done at the airport once you return after a new h1b stamping - similar to enrollment on arrival.

That's correct

I had initiated GEP at PSK at Mumbai in December 2017 (15 months back) and the status on TTP Global Entry site is still "Pending Review".

The responses I have ever received from PSK is either 1) they cannot share any information related to GEP or 2) they are awaiting response from Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Home Affairs.

Any one in the same boat? Any suggestions?

That's around the same timeline as mine. Make sure your Police Clearance was sent in OK status(i've mentioned my saga few posts above).

I am not visiting India anytime soon. :(

They should at least let the applicant know if they need anything or if something was not right. :/

Did you get a text message saying PCC was OK when you completed police verification? You can ask someone to visit your police station with the file number and rough date range of your file and they can tell you the status. Mumbai also has this site (but it doesn't give all the details for my case) https://mumbaipolice.maharashtra.gov...portstatus.asp

Global entry card mailed??
 

Global entry card mailed??
 

The Global Entry card is issued only to members who are U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents and Mexican nationals (source).

Only passports and lawful permanent resident cards (Green Cards) can be used at Global Entry kiosks. The Global Entry card is used mainly for expedited entry into the United States via the SENTRI and NEXUS lanes at land borders.

I am on my first international trip since I got GE. Do I scan my passport page or visa page? I vaguely recall the interviewer mentioning visa (and something about always scan a US document). Just want to confirm here before I come across as an idiot at the kiosk.

I did my first international trip, after GE approval, in April 2019. I remember being told to scan my visa but when I did, it couldn't find my record. There was a way to manually enter in all the details and look up your name - that's what I did and it spit out a receipt. This was in ATL.

don't remember which page i scan but i'm tempted to say its the passport page & not the visa page....

I was told I could use either. However I was reminded I have to use my middle name when booking a ticket for records to match. I never use the middle name when booking my tickets. Let's see if it works next month when I travel for first time since GE

I have also never used middle name on my flight reservations and didn't have any issues.

Used GE in SFO last night. I tried Visa first and it scanned my details correctly. I left it in the scanner too long that it asked me to scan again. Second time, I scanned the passport details page and it showed the same details. Went ahead with it and had no problem (fwiw I had some candies and chocolates so I answered yes on the "do you have food question". CBP official just waved me through).

I have used TSA Pre a few times but never have I ever been so happy about it like last night.(I usually fly out of SBA and the only use of pre is not taking shoes and laptop off). The line for security was 100-120 people long but pre-check too may be all of 2-3 minutes.

Document requirements for PSK
 

Hi,

I have PSK appointment for GEP next week. The PSK website only asks for passport and photocopies of relevant pages. I am also planning to carry my old passport which has US visa, Aadhar card and PAN card, with copies. What has been the experience of the group regarding documents? Anything missing? My current address and passport address are the same. I am a resident Indian, and hold a B1/B2 visa.

Many thanks for your help.

current passport, old passport & aadhar card are more than enough....

Thank you Keyser.

My Experience
 

Hi all - I had been following updates on this thread for a while now, and wanted to post an update that might help provide some clarity on the timeline. In my case, I applied for Global Entry October 2018.

• For context, I've been living in the US since 2008, so the last "record" of my stay in India would have been my high school.
• December 2018, I had to go to India to switch visas, and I scheduled my PSK appointment (in Chennai) for the day after that. For the PSK appointment, I took my passport and all old passports (the one saving grace was that the address I currently use in India, i.e. my parents' home address, was the same as the one in my passport) - so no further "documents" were required.
• They initiated the police clearance certificate (PCC) and we got a call pretty much the same evening saying that someone from the local police station would come to my house to do an address verification. The constable came the next morning, and asked for one additional proof of identification - thankfully, I had my Aadhaar card, and that would suffice. I signed a copy of that for verification, and off he went.
• The PSK website got updated to read that background verification had been initiated.
• I submitted a "grievance" ticket in March, and got a response within two days that said my application was "pending with MHA and MOF"
• Yesterday, I got an email from GEP saying that I should consider enrolling through an on-arrival process and they'd added new airports - I'd never gotten these emails before, so out of hope I checked the GOES website and found that my application had been conditionally approved on May 23. Scheduled the first available interview in my area, and hope to have Global Entry, and more importantly, TSA Pre, shortly. No updates to PSK website still.

So, overall, if you count the date from which the PSK process started, my application took 5.5 months to complete processing. Though this is, by no means, short, I'm just glad that the process is complete. So, two big lessons I'd say are:

1. It really doesn't matter if you live in India or abroad; you need to have proof of address and will likely need to plan to be in India for at least a week after the appointment to make sure that you can be "present" for police verification. If the address on your passport is not the current address, be prepared to show proof of address with some other government-issued ID (Aadhaar, PAN card, etc.)
2. The process seems to generally take around 5-6 months if all goes well; the grievance ticket system seems to work sporadically, and the responses are helpful to a certain degree to know if PCC has passed and if the file has gone to the ministry. After that, they just ask you to call to check.
3. Stay patient and it will happen!

Hope this is helpful.

Way back in 2013 when India and US first started talks on India joining Global Entry, the joint statement said India would build its own reciprocal trusted traveler program. Anyone have any idea about the status of that project?