Mar 6, 2017, 1:27 pm
Last edit by: seawolf
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
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
NEXUS First Time Applications Information and Processing Timelines
Aug 8, 2016, 7:50 am
#841
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 4
May pending, June accepted
I applied on May 25 and my application is pending.
My mom applied June 2 and received her acceptance email today 8/8 at 1201am
I wonder why she would be accepted before me. Looking at other posts, it looks like I should be accepted in the next couple days.
My mom applied June 2 and received her acceptance email today 8/8 at 1201am
I wonder why she would be accepted before me. Looking at other posts, it looks like I should be accepted in the next couple days.
Aug 8, 2016, 7:56 am
#842
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: West
Posts: 3,357
Ladies first .... you will get yours.
Aug 8, 2016, 11:22 am
#844
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: SFO
Programs: COdbaUA Platinum 2MM
Posts: 5,532
Welcome to FT. Thank you for sharing. Where were you interviewed?
Aug 8, 2016, 11:59 am
#846
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Austin, Texas
Programs: Airline nobody. Sad!
Posts: 26,062
Yes, although you need to change the appointment at least 24 hours in advance of your current scheduled appointment time.
Aug 8, 2016, 12:37 pm
#847
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: IAH
Posts: 91
Which day in June did you apply? If a 10-week wait is the going rate, beginning of June should be hearing soon and end of June will be early next month. Unless the wait time is speeding up as it's tail end of summer.
Aug 8, 2016, 2:47 pm
#848
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 27
June 9th, could have done it 2 weeks earlier, but since my kid only took 3 weeks for conditional approval in April, who needed to hurry. 👨.👨.👧.👧 I think that it is speeding up. May seemed to be very popular.
Aug 8, 2016, 4:03 pm
#851
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 5
Applied: may 25
Conditional approval letter: aug 8 (almost 11 weeks!)
Interviewing: Aug 13 (Ft. Erie, lots of availabilities this week)
* Yyz backed up until September 8th, won't make it for my trip on sept 13th.
Now crossing fingers Canada post doesn't strike so I can have it ready by my trip
Conditional approval letter: aug 8 (almost 11 weeks!)
Interviewing: Aug 13 (Ft. Erie, lots of availabilities this week)
* Yyz backed up until September 8th, won't make it for my trip on sept 13th.
Now crossing fingers Canada post doesn't strike so I can have it ready by my trip
Aug 8, 2016, 7:29 pm
#852
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: IAH
Posts: 91
Kids are typically fast. Also summer is peak passport season so Nexus should have a similar peak curve. Keep us posted on your conditional approval date. I'm not holding my breath. I'm dual US/Canada citizen with lots of foreign travel and in between the two countries. Should be interesting how long mine takes.
Aug 8, 2016, 7:35 pm
#853
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: NYC
Programs: AA 2MM, Bonvoy LTT, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 14,640
That does not appear to be the case.
Spouse and kids (all GE members) all applied for NEXUS same date and all got conditional approval 10.5 weeks (on the same date). My kids are elementary school age so it's not like there's much background to check against.
Years ago when kids were applying for GE (one was an infant and the other a toddler), it took three weeks for conditional approval which was similar processing time for an adult GE applicant. Both kids were born in US.
Seems to me lowest risk applicants still take the same amount of time as adult.
Spouse and kids (all GE members) all applied for NEXUS same date and all got conditional approval 10.5 weeks (on the same date). My kids are elementary school age so it's not like there's much background to check against.
Years ago when kids were applying for GE (one was an infant and the other a toddler), it took three weeks for conditional approval which was similar processing time for an adult GE applicant. Both kids were born in US.
Seems to me lowest risk applicants still take the same amount of time as adult.
Aug 8, 2016, 7:59 pm
#854
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: SFO
Programs: COdbaUA Platinum 2MM
Posts: 5,532
Applied: may 25
Conditional approval letter: aug 8 (almost 11 weeks!)
Interviewing: Aug 13 (Ft. Erie, lots of availabilities this week)
* Yyz backed up until September 8th, won't make it for my trip on sept 13th.
Now crossing fingers Canada post doesn't strike so I can have it ready by my trip
Conditional approval letter: aug 8 (almost 11 weeks!)
Interviewing: Aug 13 (Ft. Erie, lots of availabilities this week)
* Yyz backed up until September 8th, won't make it for my trip on sept 13th.
Now crossing fingers Canada post doesn't strike so I can have it ready by my trip
Aug 8, 2016, 8:48 pm
#855
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 5
Update: Managed to snag a spot at YYZ for the same day after checking it randomly. I'm seeing spots opening up sporadically too.
Applied: may 25
Conditional approval letter: aug 8 (almost 11 weeks!)
Interviewing: Aug 13 (Ft. Erie, lots of availabilities this week)
* Yyz backed up until September 8th, won't make it for my trip on sept 13th.
Now crossing fingers Canada post doesn't strike so I can have it ready by my trip
Conditional approval letter: aug 8 (almost 11 weeks!)
Interviewing: Aug 13 (Ft. Erie, lots of availabilities this week)
* Yyz backed up until September 8th, won't make it for my trip on sept 13th.
Now crossing fingers Canada post doesn't strike so I can have it ready by my trip