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Global Entry - US Citizens & LPRs First Time Applicants' Timelines & Information
Feb 20, 2019, 1:59 pm
#122
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
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Moderator's Note: Topic Drift
Folks,
The Trusted Travelers forum is informational. Members come here in search of data points and practical advice about applying for and using the various Trusted Travelers programs.
This thread is for keeping track of processing timelines of first time Global Entry applicants.
Please limit your postings here to seeking and providing practical information, and sharing news, experiences and data points about Global Entry applications approval timelines.
While some limited natural deviation from the topic is obviously acceptable, please let's keep the focus of this thread on reporting approval times.
Complaints, commentaries, opinions, and rants about about government bureaucracy and speculations as to why some applicants experience longer waits for the conditional and/or final approval of their GE applications belong in the Checkpoints and Borders Policy Debate forum or OMNI/PR (access to OMNI is limited to members who have been on FlyerTalk for 180 days and posted 180 contributive posts).
Future non-informational content will be summarily deleted.
Thank you for understanding,
TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator
The Trusted Travelers forum is informational. Members come here in search of data points and practical advice about applying for and using the various Trusted Travelers programs.
This thread is for keeping track of processing timelines of first time Global Entry applicants.
Please limit your postings here to seeking and providing practical information, and sharing news, experiences and data points about Global Entry applications approval timelines.
While some limited natural deviation from the topic is obviously acceptable, please let's keep the focus of this thread on reporting approval times.
Complaints, commentaries, opinions, and rants about about government bureaucracy and speculations as to why some applicants experience longer waits for the conditional and/or final approval of their GE applications belong in the Checkpoints and Borders Policy Debate forum or OMNI/PR (access to OMNI is limited to members who have been on FlyerTalk for 180 days and posted 180 contributive posts).
Future non-informational content will be summarily deleted.
Thank you for understanding,
TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator
Feb 21, 2019, 8:36 am
#123
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 5
Applied Dec 12th... I am now on second overseas trip since then and I am still waiting for conditional approval. Guess it does not matter much anyway since the interview office in Wisconsin is now showing no available appointments. I was hoping that I would get it at least on this trip so I could do my interview on arrival in Chicago but my plane will land in a week on Friday at 6:30 PM and I see from the On Arrival site it looks like that will be out of their open hours......Wish I had my 100.00 back.
Feb 21, 2019, 2:54 pm
#124
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 2
Applied: October 30, 2018 (payment processed the same day)
Conditional Approval: February 21, 2019
WHAT. A. JOURNEY.
Conditional Approval: February 21, 2019
(no email notification, logged in for notification)
AT LAST!WHAT. A. JOURNEY.
Last edited by esq2016; Feb 21, 2019 at 2:58 pm Reason: Forgot to add one detail regarding payment
Feb 21, 2019, 5:36 pm
#125
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: SFO
Programs: COdbaUA Platinum 2MM
Posts: 5,532
If your birthday is coming up soon, schedule your interview the day after your birthday. You will receive 364 bonus days.
Feb 22, 2019, 10:52 am
#126
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 2
Welcome to FT. Your application to conditional approval is one of the longer ones. Did you log in occasionally to see if you were conditionally approved?
If your birthday is coming up soon, schedule your interview the day after your birthday. You will receive 364 bonus days.
If your birthday is coming up soon, schedule your interview the day after your birthday. You will receive 364 bonus days.
I logged in very regularly and impatiently (and watched so many on flyertalk get conditional approval before me with jealousy!) to check on my conditional approval (I had a trips back in late November/end of year, for which I had high hopes in terms of GE) and even emailed once (no response; I forget when I emailed, but it might have been just prior to the shutdown). I have a clean record. I bounced around a fair bit for a a few years, but mainly among the same three cities (pretty much the same addresses each time), which shouldn't be suspicious because I was a student at the time (I don't know why they would take long to investigate/confirm given the fact that I've submitted these addresses in prior investigations for a position at a federal government office and other positions, but who knows?). I chalked it up to bureaucracy and to the shutdown and kept perspective, after all GE is a privilege and convenience, and expressions of entitlement are certainly not productive! Certainly, of all the services that came to a halt or are still delayed because of the shutdown, this is probably among the least essential and of little consequence to anyone's survival.
Feb 22, 2019, 2:23 pm
#127
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 14
It's been almost six weeks since I applied for GE and I am still waiting on the conditional approval.
1/14 - applied, 2/22 - still waiting on the approval.
Did not know so many people have waited for so long. I have an international trip coming up at the end of March and I really hope I'll get it by then.
1/14 - applied, 2/22 - still waiting on the approval.
Did not know so many people have waited for so long. I have an international trip coming up at the end of March and I really hope I'll get it by then.
Last edited by dimitar_sj; Feb 22, 2019 at 2:37 pm
Feb 22, 2019, 2:41 pm
#128
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 10,904
I was conditionally approved today after applying mid-late December (I don't remember the exact date)
First interview slot at SFO was 3/29, but I'll try to do a walk-in this Tuesday when I fly this weekend. If not, I can do it on arrival in mid-march.
First interview slot at SFO was 3/29, but I'll try to do a walk-in this Tuesday when I fly this weekend. If not, I can do it on arrival in mid-march.
Feb 22, 2019, 4:06 pm
#130
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: SFO
Programs: COdbaUA Platinum 2MM
Posts: 5,532
It's been almost six weeks since I applied for GE and I am still waiting on the conditional approval.
1/14 - applied, 2/22 - still waiting on the approval.
Did not know so many people have waited for so long. I have an international trip coming up at the end of March and I really hope I'll get it by then.
1/14 - applied, 2/22 - still waiting on the approval.
Did not know so many people have waited for so long. I have an international trip coming up at the end of March and I really hope I'll get it by then.
Feb 22, 2019, 8:12 pm
#132
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: La Palma, CA USA
Posts: 7
Applied December 29th
Today (2/22/19): Nothing yet and fast approaching 2 months.
Does typos delay applications? In my application, an autofill accidentally put La Palma as my city of birth when it's actually Bangkok.
Today (2/22/19): Nothing yet and fast approaching 2 months.
Does typos delay applications? In my application, an autofill accidentally put La Palma as my city of birth when it's actually Bangkok.
Feb 25, 2019, 2:56 pm
#134
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: XNA
Programs: AA Gold, AS, HA, CX, AF, BA, UA, HH
Posts: 164
Conditional approval 75 days after applying.
Approved February 25th.
FINALLY!
Currently on international trip, so no help this trip. Will attempt enrollment on arrival at LAX upon coming back.
Never received email notification as some have said. Just notice on my account page.
Approved February 25th.
FINALLY!
Currently on international trip, so no help this trip. Will attempt enrollment on arrival at LAX upon coming back.
Never received email notification as some have said. Just notice on my account page.
Last edited by elc2414; Feb 27, 2019 at 3:22 pm Reason: Added data point.
Feb 26, 2019, 6:31 am
#135
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 11
UPDATE: 30DEC18 and no conditional approval. As mentioned above, my wife has no criminal record, no traffic stops, never held a passport so no international travel except for Canada a few times via land before 9/11/2001.
So either the shutdown is affecting the approvals OR the background check is completely random. My wife is so squeaky clean, Mr. Clean would blush. Today makes 17 days so we missed the first bucket of approvals at the 10 day mark. Now we are tracking the 30~40 day mark. I will keep the board up-to-date.
So either the shutdown is affecting the approvals OR the background check is completely random. My wife is so squeaky clean, Mr. Clean would blush. Today makes 17 days so we missed the first bucket of approvals at the 10 day mark. Now we are tracking the 30~40 day mark. I will keep the board up-to-date.