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Global Entry - US Citizens & LPRs First Time Applicants' Timelines & Information
Mar 8, 2019, 4:26 pm
#181
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 2
Hi everyone, I spent the last 75 days lurking on and refreshing this site for ongoing guidance and sanity-keeping efforts. I initially applied on 12/22/18 and was conditionally approved as of 3/7/19. A Chicago resident, there were no appointments available at ORD on the 1 day I have available next week, but there were 25 available at a Downers Grove location, so I'll be headed that way next week. I didn't receive an e-mail, letting me know that I'd been 'conditionally approved' either, but based on comments made here, I expected that. Now to obsess about 'what to expect' at the interview...
Good luck to all!
Good luck to all!
Mar 8, 2019, 7:03 pm
#182
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,603
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Mar 9, 2019, 11:11 am
#184
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 78
i filed complaint and this is what i just got minutes ago:
If your application status is "Pending Review" then your application has been received and is being processed. Please note that processing times vary by applicant, but on average you can expect your application to be processed for Global Entry and FAST within 11 weeks, NEXUS 3-5 months and SENTRI 7-8 months. This includes vehicle enrollments. Again, these are average times - your application may take a shorter and longer time to process depending on what the vetting center determines, not when it was submitted. The vetting process cannot be expedited.
If your application status is "Pending Review" then your application has been received and is being processed. Please note that processing times vary by applicant, but on average you can expect your application to be processed for Global Entry and FAST within 11 weeks, NEXUS 3-5 months and SENTRI 7-8 months. This includes vehicle enrollments. Again, these are average times - your application may take a shorter and longer time to process depending on what the vetting center determines, not when it was submitted. The vetting process cannot be expedited.
Mar 9, 2019, 1:56 pm
#185
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 29
i filed complaint and this is what i just got minutes ago:
If your application status is "Pending Review" then your application has been received and is being processed. Please note that processing times vary by applicant, but on average you can expect your application to be processed for Global Entry and FAST within 11 weeks, NEXUS 3-5 months and SENTRI 7-8 months. This includes vehicle enrollments. Again, these are average times - your application may take a shorter and longer time to process depending on what the vetting center determines, not when it was submitted. The vetting process cannot be expedited.
If your application status is "Pending Review" then your application has been received and is being processed. Please note that processing times vary by applicant, but on average you can expect your application to be processed for Global Entry and FAST within 11 weeks, NEXUS 3-5 months and SENTRI 7-8 months. This includes vehicle enrollments. Again, these are average times - your application may take a shorter and longer time to process depending on what the vetting center determines, not when it was submitted. The vetting process cannot be expedited.
Mar 9, 2019, 6:29 pm
#186
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: La Palma, CA USA
Posts: 7
Some good news finally.
Applied December 29th (in the middle of the Government shutdown)
Conditionally approved: Today 3/9/19
Booked my interview in Long Beach for Monday.
Yes!!!
Took long enough. Now once I get this settled, I will start getting my summer travel plans going.
BTW, I actually got an e-mail from them alerting me of a status change.
Applied December 29th (in the middle of the Government shutdown)
Conditionally approved: Today 3/9/19
Booked my interview in Long Beach for Monday.
Yes!!!
Took long enough. Now once I get this settled, I will start getting my summer travel plans going.
BTW, I actually got an e-mail from them alerting me of a status change.
Mar 10, 2019, 5:50 pm
#187
Join Date: Mar 2019
Programs: Global Entry
Posts: 1
Some good news finally.
Applied December 29th (in the middle of the Government shutdown)
Conditionally approved: Today 3/9/19
Booked my interview in Long Beach for Monday.
Yes!!!
Took long enough. Now once I get this settled, I will start getting my summer travel plans going.
BTW, I actually got an e-mail from them alerting me of a status change.
Applied December 29th (in the middle of the Government shutdown)
Conditionally approved: Today 3/9/19
Booked my interview in Long Beach for Monday.
Yes!!!
Took long enough. Now once I get this settled, I will start getting my summer travel plans going.
BTW, I actually got an e-mail from them alerting me of a status change.
Mar 12, 2019, 1:19 pm
#190
Join Date: Jul 2017
Posts: 7
I applied and paid on Jan. 4th, no update still pending. My wife applied on Jan. 17th, and today it went to conditionally approved. She hasn't been out of the country since 2011 while I went to Israel in 2014 and Canada a few times since 2014. Clean records for both of us. We'll have to travel 2 1/2 hours for the interview since there is no airport around us that does them. Not that we can schedule an interview anyway 
Total of 67 days, appointments are looking scarce around us though one airport had nothing for months, another had some this week and then nothing for two months.
Mar 13, 2019, 3:26 pm
#192
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 13
I applied in mid December and was approved a week ago. I was so busy I didn’t even look at appointments til 3 days ago. When I did there was nothing in either Atlanta office til 4/30. All of a sudden today a bunch of stuff opened Friday and Saturday (mostly afternoon) in the ATL international terminal. My hunch is this may be connected to the 737 grounding but I don’t know. Delta has codeshares with some airlines flying them and I have no clue if Southwest flys them to Atlanta or not. The afternoon slots opening would seem to indicate people coming in and trying to do it on layovers before European departures and now had flights changed
Mar 13, 2019, 5:05 pm
#194
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC | qantas | IHG | Hilton Honors | Priority Pass | Nandos
Posts: 865
After reading through this thread, someone did an analysis and it seemed that you get conditional approval within 7 days or so, or then it's a much longer wait.
Disclosure: applied on Feb 8th and still waiting...
Mar 13, 2019, 5:07 pm
#195
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 2
I figured some people had luck with a complaint and posting on here, thought I would try that as well. It seems that you and I are on that longer approval bucket than the 7 days one.