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Global Entry - US Citizens & LPRs First Time Applicants' Timelines & Information
Jul 19, 2019, 12:34 pm
#781
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 67
First post so please forgive me if I am not addressing this correctly.
I applied for GE 24 Feb 2019 and have been waiting with a "pending review" since. Numerous emails have all come back with the company line......"due to extended government shutdown....etc"
I am at almost 150 days and my wife and I have a mid Sept trip planned to Europe. BTW, she applied 10 April, rec'd approval within 10 days and happen to find a cancelled appointment at local CBP office and rec'd approval and ID card within another week.
Anyway, I see some mention of escalating the approval process. Any help on how this is done will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
I applied for GE 24 Feb 2019 and have been waiting with a "pending review" since. Numerous emails have all come back with the company line......"due to extended government shutdown....etc"
I am at almost 150 days and my wife and I have a mid Sept trip planned to Europe. BTW, she applied 10 April, rec'd approval within 10 days and happen to find a cancelled appointment at local CBP office and rec'd approval and ID card within another week.
Anyway, I see some mention of escalating the approval process. Any help on how this is done will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Jul 20, 2019, 7:40 am
#783
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Close to ORD
Programs: UA Mileage Plus
Posts: 18
My wife and I had our GE interview yesterday at ORD at 9 am. The agent took us together, took fingerprints and verbally told us both approved. Within an hour I received an email with my approval update. My wife did not get an email and her login is still saying attend her interview which is showing as the 9 am slot we attended yesterday. Should she just call the ORD office as may have been clerical error by agent? Or is there different time frames for the approval emails to arrive?
Jul 20, 2019, 9:37 pm
#786
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,627
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Jul 21, 2019, 8:54 am
#787
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 26
Application Date: June 26th
CA Date: July 2nd
Scheduled Interview for September 20th at MSP.
I should note that this was an application for a 12 year old so I wonder if that was the reason for the quick processing. She doesn't have much of a background to look into.
I really wanted to get this process completed during the summer so we may make a road trip to the Canadian border to do the interview there.
CA Date: July 2nd
Scheduled Interview for September 20th at MSP.
I should note that this was an application for a 12 year old so I wonder if that was the reason for the quick processing. She doesn't have much of a background to look into.
I really wanted to get this process completed during the summer so we may make a road trip to the Canadian border to do the interview there.
We happened to have a free day this week and my daughter didn't want to miss any school for her GE interview, so we did decide to drive the 5 hours to to International Falls and do a GE interview there. I officially made the decision to drive up there about two days before we went so that's when I scheduled the interview...their interview schedule is wide open and interviews are easy to get. We had a chatty CBP agent and my daughter's fingerprints came back before we were even done talking with him. The facial recognition took a couple of hours but she had her approval within three hours of the interview.
Jul 21, 2019, 8:58 am
#788
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 2
Long time lurker... I decided to play the Global Entry lottery. To my massive surprise, got the CA today
Application: 7/16
Conditional Approval: 7/21
=> 5 days
Planning to do Enrollment on Arrival in ATL in early August. Or earlier if something opens up in MSP.
For reference, I'm a US LPR since very recently, with extensive travel history and a gazillion biometrics and background checks done on me.
Application: 7/16
Conditional Approval: 7/21
=> 5 days
Planning to do Enrollment on Arrival in ATL in early August. Or earlier if something opens up in MSP.
For reference, I'm a US LPR since very recently, with extensive travel history and a gazillion biometrics and background checks done on me.
Jul 22, 2019, 8:10 pm
#789
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 4
Hi All,
Decided to move to Global Entry for our upcoming Europe trip in September. With hearing things like 11 weeks or more, plus some of the waits reported here, I realized this was a long shot. Put in our applications the evening of Wednesday, July 17th.
Was conditionally approved today (July 22nd) - 5 days. If you don't count the weekend, that 3 business days. Nice.
Given what I've read here, my theory is the fact my wife and I (whole family actually) are TSA Pre-Check for the past year definitely sped things up. I believe I've read similar things here - where having existing PassID numbers, TSA Pre-Check, etc - definitely shortens your wait time. If anything I was expecting a delay like we had with Pre-Check, because my wife was born in Germany. My pre-check was approved in (if I remember correctly) 7 days, while hers took 5 weeks. So perhaps that background check process is considered when approving Global Entry.
We're coming back into an airport that allows "Enrollment on Arrival", so we'll be taking advantage of that when we arrive home. Pre-check heading out, Global Entry coming back. Sweet.
Wishing all of you having less than stellar experiences the best of luck - perhaps this is a sign of improved response times across the board!
-M
Decided to move to Global Entry for our upcoming Europe trip in September. With hearing things like 11 weeks or more, plus some of the waits reported here, I realized this was a long shot. Put in our applications the evening of Wednesday, July 17th.
Was conditionally approved today (July 22nd) - 5 days. If you don't count the weekend, that 3 business days. Nice.
Given what I've read here, my theory is the fact my wife and I (whole family actually) are TSA Pre-Check for the past year definitely sped things up. I believe I've read similar things here - where having existing PassID numbers, TSA Pre-Check, etc - definitely shortens your wait time. If anything I was expecting a delay like we had with Pre-Check, because my wife was born in Germany. My pre-check was approved in (if I remember correctly) 7 days, while hers took 5 weeks. So perhaps that background check process is considered when approving Global Entry.
We're coming back into an airport that allows "Enrollment on Arrival", so we'll be taking advantage of that when we arrive home. Pre-check heading out, Global Entry coming back. Sweet.
Wishing all of you having less than stellar experiences the best of luck - perhaps this is a sign of improved response times across the board!
-M
Jul 23, 2019, 8:52 am
#791
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 4
Perhaps you're on to something there - you've had it for 3 years - while we've only had it for about a year. Perhaps the time since the last background check has something to do with it? Again, just theories. For all we know, it could be a huge dart board...
Jul 23, 2019, 9:22 am
#792
Join Date: Jun 2014
Programs: EY
Posts: 852
Applied 4/7
Conditionally Approved 7/21
105 days/3.5 months
Upcoming Interview 8/14
This was for a new LPR, a few weeks after first arrival into the US. Notably we applied using the temporary I-551 stamped in the passport, not the official 10 year card you get a few months after landing. The application suggests you wait until that card is received, but we continued on. The main difference between the card and the temporary I-551 is the expiration date of 9 years later. The A-number is the same. I was worried that the expiration date issue would be a problem for approval, but that didn't seem to be the case.
Conditionally Approved 7/21
105 days/3.5 months
Upcoming Interview 8/14
This was for a new LPR, a few weeks after first arrival into the US. Notably we applied using the temporary I-551 stamped in the passport, not the official 10 year card you get a few months after landing. The application suggests you wait until that card is received, but we continued on. The main difference between the card and the temporary I-551 is the expiration date of 9 years later. The A-number is the same. I was worried that the expiration date issue would be a problem for approval, but that didn't seem to be the case.
Jul 23, 2019, 11:37 am
#793
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 12
Hi All,
Decided to move to Global Entry for our upcoming Europe trip in September. With hearing things like 11 weeks or more, plus some of the waits reported here, I realized this was a long shot. Put in our applications the evening of Wednesday, July 17th.
Was conditionally approved today (July 22nd) - 5 days. If you don't count the weekend, that 3 business days. Nice.
Given what I've read here, my theory is the fact my wife and I (whole family actually) are TSA Pre-Check for the past year definitely sped things up. I believe I've read similar things here - where having existing PassID numbers, TSA Pre-Check, etc - definitely shortens your wait time. If anything I was expecting a delay like we had with Pre-Check, because my wife was born in Germany. My pre-check was approved in (if I remember correctly) 7 days, while hers took 5 weeks. So perhaps that background check process is considered when approving Global Entry.
We're coming back into an airport that allows "Enrollment on Arrival", so we'll be taking advantage of that when we arrive home. Pre-check heading out, Global Entry coming back. Sweet.
Wishing all of you having less than stellar experiences the best of luck - perhaps this is a sign of improved response times across the board!
-M
Decided to move to Global Entry for our upcoming Europe trip in September. With hearing things like 11 weeks or more, plus some of the waits reported here, I realized this was a long shot. Put in our applications the evening of Wednesday, July 17th.
Was conditionally approved today (July 22nd) - 5 days. If you don't count the weekend, that 3 business days. Nice.
Given what I've read here, my theory is the fact my wife and I (whole family actually) are TSA Pre-Check for the past year definitely sped things up. I believe I've read similar things here - where having existing PassID numbers, TSA Pre-Check, etc - definitely shortens your wait time. If anything I was expecting a delay like we had with Pre-Check, because my wife was born in Germany. My pre-check was approved in (if I remember correctly) 7 days, while hers took 5 weeks. So perhaps that background check process is considered when approving Global Entry.
We're coming back into an airport that allows "Enrollment on Arrival", so we'll be taking advantage of that when we arrive home. Pre-check heading out, Global Entry coming back. Sweet.
Wishing all of you having less than stellar experiences the best of luck - perhaps this is a sign of improved response times across the board!
-M
If I hadn't paid $100.00 it wouldn't be so irritating. There is no recourse. We are all subject to the whims of the system and just have to trust it is all being handled. I realize this is a "first world" problem but at this point it begs the question...how long can an application sit in limbo? 6 months? A year? In theory it seems as though it could sit out there ad infinitum.
I'm coming up on 6 months here shortly and will be forced to pay $85.00 for TSA Pre-Check renewal because my global is still pending and I don't want to lose Pre-Check. <sigh>
Jul 23, 2019, 12:13 pm
#794
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: ATX
Posts: 24
Jul 23, 2019, 12:17 pm
#795
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: ATX
Posts: 24
I don't think having TSA Pre-Check is a factor is getting conditional approval any faster. I've had it for just about 5 years. Yet, here I am exactly 155 days later still waiting for conditional approval for an application submitted on 2/18. I've gone through 2 FBI background checks for work. I've lived in the same house the past 14 years. The application for my 12 year old was submitted the same day 2/18, conditional approval on 5/1, interview and final approval completed on 6/21. My spouse already had global entry.
If I hadn't paid $100.00 it wouldn't be so irritating. There is no recourse. We are all subject to the whims of the system and just have to trust it is all being handled. I realize this is a "first world" problem but at this point it begs the question...how long can an application sit in limbo? 6 months? A year? In theory it seems as though it could sit out there ad infinitum.
I'm coming up on 6 months here shortly and will be forced to pay $85.00 for TSA Pre-Check renewal because my global is still pending and I don't want to lose Pre-Check. <sigh>
If I hadn't paid $100.00 it wouldn't be so irritating. There is no recourse. We are all subject to the whims of the system and just have to trust it is all being handled. I realize this is a "first world" problem but at this point it begs the question...how long can an application sit in limbo? 6 months? A year? In theory it seems as though it could sit out there ad infinitum.
I'm coming up on 6 months here shortly and will be forced to pay $85.00 for TSA Pre-Check renewal because my global is still pending and I don't want to lose Pre-Check. <sigh>
6 months is awfully a long time to have no status update.