Global Entry Interview
 

I am flying from DFW to IND with a layover in IAD. I am scheduled for my interview at IAD for 4:00 p.m. and my flight to IND is at 5:02 pm. Will that be enough time for me to get to my interview and back to my flight. This will be the first time will be at IAD.

(The next appointment available at DFW isn't until Sept. 15)

Sorry if this has been asked before, search doesn't really work that well. :P

No that is not enough time.

Sadly, for a 5 PM flight, I have to concur. Allow at least 30 minutes for the interview - mine took a little less than that - and another 30-45 to clear security and get to the gate. My worst times clearing security were around 4-5 PM with waits up to 30 minutes just to clear. Routine clearance is 15 minutes. I allow at least 25.

If all the stars align, you could make it but it would be very tight & most airlines have a cutoff time for boarding.

If you're flying an airline in Concourse B (AA/DL/B6/WN) you stand a better chance of making it than if you're flying UA or another airline out of one of the other concourses. But neither is a "given".

I think it's pushing it, but with a little luck, you can make it! My Nexus interview didn't take an hour (and that was conducted by two agencies, CBP and CBSA). It all depends how many people are waiting for interviews before you.

But he scheduled his interview toward the end of they day. They aren't gonna stay past 5pm to save the world.
I'd bet he is in and out in 15 mins so they can get out by 430 and get a gallon of milk for the wife :p

Point of reference: I just went through IAD security at 4 PM today (Sunday). Very unusual that there was *zero* line for the document checker (although full second-boarding-pass check and hand swab was in progress). It still took 17 minutes (timed with a timer on my Android phone) from the time I entered the area at the top of the escalator to leaving the checkpoint. Note that there were 6 x-rays in use, compared to the 4 that are usually operating on Monday AM. Another 8 minutes from the exit of the checkpoint to the Admiral's Club in Concourse B.

Total 25 minutes. Add the 10-20 minute gate cutoff for the airline, and you're out of time if the interview takes more than 15 minutes.

And that's with no lines for the document checker. On a Sunday.

YMMV.

Well, I'm flying United that day. Worse case, I miss my flight and they just put me on the next one. Hopefully, the elite line for United isn't that busy.

"Most" (from posts in another thread here) note 15 minutes for the interview--mine took less than 10 (and would have less, his computer terminal was "sluggish")--but others have had (for whatever reason) extended interviews lasting over 30 minutes. You are cutting it too close.

Mine at JFK was 5-10 minutes. Asked what my current employment was, what countries I've been to in the past 5 years, took a pict, finger prints, and did a kiosk demo.

Mine was also at JFK; a few minutes of my (short) "interview" were used to give me Global Entry cards, which describe the program, with the intent of my giving them to friends and acquaintances to alert them of the features of the program. [I still have a few of these cards left.:)]

Haha I got those too! The CBP officer who conducted my Nexus interview asked me if I have any acquaintances or relatives w/Nexus, to which I replied yes.

He then gave me these cards to give to people that "let them know Nexus is now GE eligible"

At that time of day, security at IAD will likely be clogged by pax departing on the first bank of international departures for the afternoon/evening.

The screening layout is also such that you benefit very little by using the elite line in such circumstances, as it only buys you a shorter line to the TDC--after that, the lanes themselves are a scrum with everyone else.

The Global Entry office is at the far right end of the main terminal (completely opposite the UA counters at the far left), right outside where international arrivals exit the secure area. You could either go upstairs to departures (and back down) to the security checkpoint at that end--which I rarely use, so I can't comment directly on its lines at that time of day--or stay on the arrivals level and go about halfway down the terminal to the Dulles Diamond lane. The Dulles Diamond lane may be shorter, but will almost certainly be filled with wheelchair pax and be using the NoS.

If you're able and arrive with plenty of time to spare before that 4:00pm appointment, you could try doing a walk-in. At worst, the appointment shouldn't take more than 20 minutes (watch a 6 minute video, get your fingerprints, and if doing the RFID card, your photo taken, too). Still cutting it awfully close...

I do have a return flight on the 28 from IND to DFW with a layover at EWR. My layover is about 1:30. Should I try for that day?