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Old Mar 6, 2017, 1:27 pm
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CBSA published NEXUS processing times to get to conditional approval can be found here. The most recently published processing time is below, along with a short history of recent official published times. A longer history of published wait times is here, via the Internet Archive Wayback machine. Please post your personal experiences below in the thread. All posts are appreciated. Thank you/Merci!

5 business days as of 2020-04-29
30 business days as of 2020-02-17
39 business days as of 2019-10-07
40 business days as of 2019-08-28
25 business days as of 2019-04-11


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Old Mar 9, 2023 | 2:39 pm
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Replying to my own message from Feb 16 with an update. Today my daughter was approved and I can now set up an interview for her. I applied for her Aug 2021 (She was born in July 2021) and now today March 9, 2023 she received her email. I'd say that was about 19months. Couldn't be happier as myself, my wife and other daughter all have them and have been waiting on this anxiously for full family approval !! (Interview in May)
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Old Mar 9, 2023 | 5:49 pm
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Originally Posted by Michael_T
Replying to my own message from Feb 16 with an update. Today my daughter was approved and I can now set up an interview for her. I applied for her Aug 2021 (She was born in July 2021) and now today March 9, 2023 she received her email. I'd say that was about 19months. Couldn't be happier as myself, my wife and other daughter all have them and have been waiting on this anxiously for full family approval !! (Interview in May)
So it took them 19 months to realize that a month old might not have committed any troubles. Jokes aside, congratulations!!!
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Old Mar 10, 2023 | 11:07 am
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Originally Posted by e3smith
Initially applied September 2021, still "pending review". 541 days...
Same here. I am a Sept 2021 applicant as well. Called the phone number people mentioned here, and cbsa told me that they approved my application a while back and Americans are holding up. She asked me for my passID, rather than the application number. So I guess my application is not lost or forgotten for now.
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Old Mar 10, 2023 | 12:22 pm
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speculation here but it looks to me CBP are approving nexus for Canadian to go to US really quickly but not approving US to go to Canada to create pressure for Canada.

Look up "Canada says U.S. holding NEXUS travel program 'hostage'"
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Old Mar 11, 2023 | 9:57 pm
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Applied in August 2021 as first time applicant. Conditional approval today after 18 months wait. Luckily grabbed an interview slot locally next week after refreshing lots of times.
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Old Mar 11, 2023 | 11:25 pm
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Partner applied Aug 22 and was conditionally approved in Feb and did interview in March. So just under 8 months start to finish.
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Old Mar 12, 2023 | 3:31 pm
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Originally Posted by zayoo
Applied in August 2021 as first time applicant. Conditional approval today after 18 months wait. Luckily grabbed an interview slot locally next week after refreshing lots of times.
More luck to reschedule interview the next day. Interview took 10 minutes. Website shows approved when I walk out of the enrollment center.
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Old Mar 12, 2023 | 10:59 pm
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Applied Sep 2021 and conditionally approved today.
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Old Mar 13, 2023 | 2:00 pm
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Just got my "Conditional Approval"
Applied on Sept 7th, 2021.
Waited for 552 days (18months + 6 days)
Now trying to find a nearer date for interview (booked for July)
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Old Mar 15, 2023 | 1:51 pm
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Originally Posted by flyingin
Applied Sep 2021 and conditionally approved today.
Originally Posted by HummaKavula
Just got my "Conditional Approval"
Applied on Sept 7th, 2021.
And here I am, waiting impatiently on conditional approval when I applied in September 2022!
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Old Mar 15, 2023 | 1:54 pm
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Originally Posted by e3smith
Initially applied September 2021, still "pending review". 541 days...
Just received conditional approval this week. Just over 18 months later. Fortunately appointments in Blaine are relatively available
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Old Mar 16, 2023 | 11:38 am
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Glad to see some Sept 2021 applicants got conditional approval.
I applied on Dec 2021, still waiting, if it's 18 months for conditional approval, probably I'll get mine on June 2023.
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Old Mar 16, 2023 | 6:14 pm
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Finally my turn to post lol. Sept 2021 applicant, just got conditionally approved. Initial enrolment. I live in Saskatchewan. What would be the easiest way of doing the interview for me? Driving down to North Dakota is like 9 hours. Also I need to do it sometime in the first week of May, and Blaine seems to be not feasible
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Old Mar 17, 2023 | 7:05 pm
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Originally Posted by nexusvictim
Finally my turn to post lol. Sept 2021 applicant, just got conditionally approved. Initial enrolment. I live in Saskatchewan. What would be the easiest way of doing the interview for me? Driving down to North Dakota is like 9 hours. Also I need to do it sometime in the first week of May, and Blaine seems to be not feasible
Sault Ste. Marie seems to be available mre than most other locations.
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Old Mar 20, 2023 | 1:16 pm
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FYI for those of you with conditional approval in Canada. Appointments are available all across canada NOW!
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nationa...-reopen-canada
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