When does one actually need to show the GE card.

The card's RFID chip gets scanned at land border crossings and I don't know if they scan it by sea (you either get told to meet a customs officer at a location or told to be on your way). By air, I just use it as my government issued photo ID for domestic flights.

Once you have everything done, you can do the iris scan as a drop-in (no appointment needed) at the locations that have it. My interview was at the Detroit (Ambassador Bridge) center, and I just set aside some time during my next trip to YYZ to get the scans done. (Entered "the old way" using my passport, asked the officer where the NEXUS office was, and went on over after I'd finished clearing through. Easy.)

Is that so at all locations for iris scans. Too bad I did not know that yesterday and the April is now gone. Will keep on checking.

To the best of my knowledge, all of the iris scan locations will do them on a drop-in basis as noted in this newsletter. In some cases (including Blaine, Niagara Falls, and Champlain) the enrollment center is on the US side of the border and has a note that the nearby Canadian office can do them.

I had my interview today at Pearson and everything went smoothly. It's been around 5 hours and no approval email. I called into the center and the admin person told me that it could take 5-6 weeks to get my card even though the cbsa agent told me 7-10 days. She said that the application now needs to go to Washington, D.C. and potentially could still not be approved (even though I gave them my biometric data already). Does this make any sense? I thought once they gave you the orientation on the program and took the biometric data that was it. She told me there's no way I'd be getting an approval email today even though multiple people have reported their approval email being almost instant after the interview. I'm confused.

I was pre-approved, had the interview, and now have to get approved again? Something doesn't add up.

Just had my interview at Montreal-Trudeau on Sunday afternoon. I brought all my paperwork detailing the sealing/dropping of charges, but they only asked if I had ever been charged with breaking customs laws [specifically] to which I said no. They didn't ask about general criminal history or bring up either of my cases, so I just kept to myself and kept my documents in their envelope. The Canadian officer actually started the interview by taking my retina scan lol, and didn't really ask any thing except why I wanted NEXUS. The US officer asked my employment history, and I had to explain that I worked one full time job and two part time/freelance as my freelance was listed as my main job in their system. She took my fingerprints and told me I was approved and would get the card within 10 business days.

The only issue is that my GOES account shows "interview scheduled" and not approved. I called the Trudeau nexus office and left a message explaining that I was approved after my interview but didn't see it listed online still. Most people got the approval email/GOES approval the same day so just thought it was odd.

My approval came through 27 hours after the interview (at Pearson). If you don't see anything by Friday I'd definitely give them a call back to see what the holdup is.

Reading this forum, I think the same day approval email is not the norm anymore. Maybe there was a software update for the officers. Who knows. I was "interview scheduled" status for a week after my interview. Called the office and got the status changed. Funny, the actual approval email didn't come through for 3 more days after that. My card arrived yesterday, which was roughly 10 business days after the interview.

I knows its been talked about before its just saw another announcement from YYZ. NEXUS Enrolment Centre temporarily moving from T1 to Convair Dr.

I would agree with you that it has changed! Thanks for the update. I guess I'll just wait for the card then. Have been waiting on this for so long and wasn't sure if I'd get it so, guess I'm just excited!

As a data point for people coming up on their interview, my letter said bring my passport OR birth certificate. I was asked 3 times for my birth certificate at the interview (even though I had my passport). I told everyone who asked me for it (check-in person, US CBP and Canadian CBP), the letter said OR, not AND. I was told that the letter is a known problem, and was asked to bring my birth cert with me the next time I rolled through YVR so they could "check it off" the list.

Thought it was interesting, I was approved and have my card without showing the BC, just good for everyone to know they really wanted to see a BC too...

*My processing time was quick, I already had GE, conditional approval was March 2016, interview was May 2016 and NEXUS card received 7 days after interview.

I applied for my Nexus mid April, 2016 and the payment was taken from my credit card on April 27. It's now May 20th and I still haven't received a letter of approval or denial yet. Can I sign up for a GOES account without my memberID number to check the status of my Nexus application?

You should give them a call to see if you are conditionally approved so you can get the ID required to sign up for GOES and schedule for your appointment. The letter comes rather slowly so it's much faster to call them.

GE to Nexus Without Interviewing
 

My wife and I both had GE accounts expiring in 3/17 and 12/16, respectively. Since we will be moving to Canada in 2018, we decided to get Nexus in place of GE for the renewal, even though we have AMEX Platinum and Citi Prestige cards we could have used for a GE fee credit. Since we live in the DC area, away from Nexus enrollment centers, I booked a trip to Seattle for late May (we leave this Saturday) thinking that we’d have our conditional approvals by before then. We also have family in SEA, and were planning on traveling out there around this time anyway. We both applied on 4/23, So I was surprised when we received emails from CBP on 5/2 advising us that our Nexus applications were approved, not just conditionally approved. Since I couldn’t find anything online about GE members switching to Nexus without an interview, I called the CBP help line, and they confirmed that we didn’t have to interview. We’ve both already received our Nexus cards in the mail. We’ll do our iris scans in a couple years when we move to Vancouver.