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Global Entry - US Citizens & LPRs First Time Applicants' Timelines & Information
#796
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 8
Same story here, except for the dates. My partner and I both applied on 4/21. I got CA in six days. My partner is still waiting (today being 7/22). I have sent several emails to check on the status...they reply with a copy of what is on the website, saying allow 90 days. I've also tried the phone # listed above, but they apparently are not accepting calls, as it keeps telling me to call later, which I've done with the same response. I have not scheduled my in-person meeting, as I'd like to arrange them both at the same time. This is frustrating. They have my $100 and all I have is a PENDING notification. Is there a phone # where someone actually answers calls, or any other way to find out what's going on?
#797
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: ATX
Posts: 24
Same story here, except for the dates. My partner and I both applied on 4/21. I got CA in six days. My partner is still waiting (today being 7/22). I have sent several emails to check on the status...they reply with a copy of what is on the website, saying allow 90 days. I've also tried the phone # listed above, but they apparently are not accepting calls, as it keeps telling me to call later, which I've done with the same response. I have not scheduled my in-person meeting, as I'd like to arrange them both at the same time. This is frustrating. They have my $100 and all I have is a PENDING notification. Is there a phone # where someone actually answers calls, or any other way to find out what's going on?
#799
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: SJC
Programs: AA, AS, Marriott
Posts: 6,061
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.
#800
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 27
I applied for my daughters on April 15th and they are both still pending. But I’m hopeful they’ll get CA any day now since I see people who applied on April 7th were just recently approved. I haven’t seen the need to escalate since people who applied before us are still pending. If it gets to where someone who applied on April 15th has been approved and days go by after then I will escalate. But for now the waiting game continues. It seems that the later in the year the applications were submitted the longer the wait. My hubby and I applied in March and waited 95 days. But now it’s up to about 105 days.
#801
Join Date: May 2011
Location: California
Programs: american, delta, united
Posts: 12
I have my CA which I got rather quickly. It is now 65 days from my husband's application - same date as mine - and still waiting. Our of curiosity, I checked the various interview locations in Southern California for dates and found that both Los Angeles and San Diego have NO dates available. Not even a calendar. This is ridiculous and I wish I hadn't bothered doing these applications and paying $200.
We are going to Philadelphia in September and that location in the airport has no open dates until October. I thought I read that you can just drop in if you're traveling through an airport. Can someone please confirm? Can you also just show up at a location without an appointment? We live over 2 hours from the closest location
Thanks
We are going to Philadelphia in September and that location in the airport has no open dates until October. I thought I read that you can just drop in if you're traveling through an airport. Can someone please confirm? Can you also just show up at a location without an appointment? We live over 2 hours from the closest location
Thanks
#802
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: AA, UA, GE
Posts: 5,123
I have my CA which I got rather quickly. It is now 65 days from my husband's application - same date as mine - and still waiting. Our of curiosity, I checked the various interview locations in Southern California for dates and found that both Los Angeles and San Diego have NO dates available. Not even a calendar. This is ridiculous and I wish I hadn't bothered doing these applications and paying $200.
We are going to Philadelphia in September and that location in the airport has no open dates until October. I thought I read that you can just drop in if you're traveling through an airport. Can someone please confirm? Can you also just show up at a location without an appointment? We live over 2 hours from the closest location
Thanks
We are going to Philadelphia in September and that location in the airport has no open dates until October. I thought I read that you can just drop in if you're traveling through an airport. Can someone please confirm? Can you also just show up at a location without an appointment? We live over 2 hours from the closest location
Thanks
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#803
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 27
I have my CA which I got rather quickly. It is now 65 days from my husband's application - same date as mine - and still waiting. Our of curiosity, I checked the various interview locations in Southern California for dates and found that both Los Angeles and San Diego have NO dates available. Not even a calendar. This is ridiculous and I wish I hadn't bothered doing these applications and paying $200.
We are going to Philadelphia in September and that location in the airport has no open dates until October. I thought I read that you can just drop in if you're traveling through an airport. Can someone please confirm? Can you also just show up at a location without an appointment? We live over 2 hours from the closest location
Thanks
We are going to Philadelphia in September and that location in the airport has no open dates until October. I thought I read that you can just drop in if you're traveling through an airport. Can someone please confirm? Can you also just show up at a location without an appointment? We live over 2 hours from the closest location
Thanks
from an international trip and have been CA. Other that that I do t think you can just show up without an appointment
#804
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 12
So, final data point for those keeping track...I applied on 2/18 and received conditional approval today 7/24. 156 days.
#805
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 8
I called early this AM....half hour or so on hold til I got a real person. She told me the average wait time now is 100 days (as mentioned in a post above) - I am currently only at 95, so she said wait 5 days, call back if no result by then, and they'd open a ticket on it.
#806
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,641
Please continue this discussion in the relevant thread:
Thank you,
TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator
#807
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 27
I called early this AM....half hour or so on hold til I got a real person. She told me the average wait time now is 100 days (as mentioned in a post above) - I am currently only at 95, so she said wait 5 days, call back if no result by then, and they'd open a ticket on it.
#809
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 8
Location: New York City area
US Passport holder. Very little international travel history. Only to Canada and Bermuda all within the last 2 years
Applied and Payment made: 6/12/19
Conditional approval: 6/17/19 (3 business days!) ***Note, I didn't receive any email notification that my Trusted Traveler Program Application status changed. I had to login to the site on 6/20 to see that I had been conditionally approved
Interview scheduled: 7/24/19 at the Bowling Green NYC location downtown. Interview availability was about 1 month out at that time
Final approval: 7/25/19 (about 20 hours after the interview) ***Note, for the approval, I did receive and email notification that my TTP application status had changed
Interview notes: Bowling Green location. Be prepared for standard metal detector security screening for entering a government facility. The offices are located on the 4th floor of the building. You wait in the lobby until an officer comes to escort you up as a group. I recommend arriving 30 min before your interview time. The office is located in the same building as the Museum of the American Indian and you might get delayed entering if there is a large tour group ahead of you.
The interview "room" is setup like a bank teller line with 3 or 4 officers behind the counter. You'll be called up after a short wait in another waiting area.
Questions were straightforward. Date of birth, name of employer. My drivers license and proof of address were never looked at, only my US Passport and approval letter. Photo was taken using a webcam and fingerprints taken with a scanner.
Hope this helps.
-Pete
US Passport holder. Very little international travel history. Only to Canada and Bermuda all within the last 2 years
Applied and Payment made: 6/12/19
Conditional approval: 6/17/19 (3 business days!) ***Note, I didn't receive any email notification that my Trusted Traveler Program Application status changed. I had to login to the site on 6/20 to see that I had been conditionally approved
Interview scheduled: 7/24/19 at the Bowling Green NYC location downtown. Interview availability was about 1 month out at that time
Final approval: 7/25/19 (about 20 hours after the interview) ***Note, for the approval, I did receive and email notification that my TTP application status had changed
Interview notes: Bowling Green location. Be prepared for standard metal detector security screening for entering a government facility. The offices are located on the 4th floor of the building. You wait in the lobby until an officer comes to escort you up as a group. I recommend arriving 30 min before your interview time. The office is located in the same building as the Museum of the American Indian and you might get delayed entering if there is a large tour group ahead of you.
The interview "room" is setup like a bank teller line with 3 or 4 officers behind the counter. You'll be called up after a short wait in another waiting area.
Questions were straightforward. Date of birth, name of employer. My drivers license and proof of address were never looked at, only my US Passport and approval letter. Photo was taken using a webcam and fingerprints taken with a scanner.
Hope this helps.
-Pete
Last edited by PistolPete13; Jul 26, 2019 at 8:53 am Reason: Added more details
#810
Join Date: Jul 2019
Posts: 2
First time applying for Global Entry. Just had my application conditionally approved (yay) but after waiting 107 days (boo).
I applied for myself on April 10, 2019 and received conditional approval July 26, 2019: 107 days.
My wife applied on May 4, 2019, and received conditional approval one week later on May 11, 2019: 7 days.
She's had more foreign travel, while I have had government background investigations with DoD and DHS.
Scheduled the next available appointment at an airport near me for the end of October. My closest airport (BWI) isn't taking any new appointments at the moment.
I applied for myself on April 10, 2019 and received conditional approval July 26, 2019: 107 days.
My wife applied on May 4, 2019, and received conditional approval one week later on May 11, 2019: 7 days.
She's had more foreign travel, while I have had government background investigations with DoD and DHS.
Scheduled the next available appointment at an airport near me for the end of October. My closest airport (BWI) isn't taking any new appointments at the moment.