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- Process explained here - http://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-tr...united-kingdom
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UK Citizens Global Entry Applications and Renewals Procedures & Timelines
Dec 17, 2013, 4:37 am
#691
Ambassador: Oneworld Alliance
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: LON
Programs: BA Gold (GGL), Hilton Diamond, AA Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,213
I had my interview at JFK on Friday and I was only asked a couple of simple questions about my name, address and occupation etc, provided my fingerprints, photo and my Acro form was scanned in, and that was it. I asked whether I would get an email and I was told they don't provide these now, and I was approved and I could start using it immediately. Great I thought.
Well I ended up with my first GE attempt trying to get back in to MIA from GCM. After scanning my passport it immediately failed my attempt and just asked me to report to Passport Control. I took my slip and handed it over and was told that my application hadn't been approved because no one at JFK had reviewed my fingerprints yet, and the email automatically gets issued. So I don't think the woman I saw knew what she was doing.
The passport control guy also said it wasn't the first time, because the JFK centre seemed to make a lot of errors. So I've got to ring JFK GE centre and get them to sort it out. Luckily I'm due back at JFK on Sunday. I think I was also fortunate to be dealt with by a guy who's involved in doing interviews at Miami - he was happy to process this use of GE by taking my fingerprints. I would not have been happy having to get to the back of a very long queue.
Anyway, if anyone has an interview coming up worth explicitly checking at the interview whether the officer has checked your fingerprints.
Well I ended up with my first GE attempt trying to get back in to MIA from GCM. After scanning my passport it immediately failed my attempt and just asked me to report to Passport Control. I took my slip and handed it over and was told that my application hadn't been approved because no one at JFK had reviewed my fingerprints yet, and the email automatically gets issued. So I don't think the woman I saw knew what she was doing.
The passport control guy also said it wasn't the first time, because the JFK centre seemed to make a lot of errors. So I've got to ring JFK GE centre and get them to sort it out. Luckily I'm due back at JFK on Sunday. I think I was also fortunate to be dealt with by a guy who's involved in doing interviews at Miami - he was happy to process this use of GE by taking my fingerprints. I would not have been happy having to get to the back of a very long queue.
Anyway, if anyone has an interview coming up worth explicitly checking at the interview whether the officer has checked your fingerprints.
Dec 19, 2013, 2:39 am
#692
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: North West, UK
Programs: BA GfL (GGL/CCR), Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,998
Well I ended up with my first GE attempt trying to get back in to MIA from GCM. After scanning my passport it immediately failed my attempt and just asked me to report to Passport Control. I took my slip and handed it over and was told that my application hadn't been approved because no one at JFK had reviewed my fingerprints yet, and the email automatically gets issued. So I don't think the woman I saw knew what she was doing.
The passport control guy also said it wasn't the first time, because the JFK centre seemed to make a lot of errors. So I've got to ring JFK GE centre and get them to sort it out. Luckily I'm due back at JFK on Sunday. I think I was also fortunate to be dealt with by a guy who's involved in doing interviews at Miami - he was happy to process this use of GE by taking my fingerprints. I would not have been happy having to get to the back of a very long queue.
Anyway, if anyone has an interview coming up worth explicitly checking at the interview whether the officer has checked your fingerprints.
The passport control guy also said it wasn't the first time, because the JFK centre seemed to make a lot of errors. So I've got to ring JFK GE centre and get them to sort it out. Luckily I'm due back at JFK on Sunday. I think I was also fortunate to be dealt with by a guy who's involved in doing interviews at Miami - he was happy to process this use of GE by taking my fingerprints. I would not have been happy having to get to the back of a very long queue.
Anyway, if anyone has an interview coming up worth explicitly checking at the interview whether the officer has checked your fingerprints.
Anyway I am pleased to report that I got my approval email yesterday so the problem has obviously been sorted now. Good job - heading back over to the US today, and will be taking my wife to the JFK GE Enrolment Centre on Fri for her interview. Hopefully hers won't suffer the same problems as mine.
Dec 19, 2013, 2:46 am
#693
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Edinburgh and Maine
Programs: BA GGL, AA lifetime gold, Marriott Rewards platinum
Posts: 286
Thanks for the information about JFK. I have my interview just after Christmas on the 27th, so this is very helpful.
Let's hope the lines for regular entry at JFK are not too bad on Saturday afternoon, I hoping that this will be last one for me without Global Entry.
Let's hope the lines for regular entry at JFK are not too bad on Saturday afternoon, I hoping that this will be last one for me without Global Entry.
Dec 19, 2013, 5:51 am
#694
Ambassador: Oneworld Alliance
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: LON
Programs: BA Gold (GGL), Hilton Diamond, AA Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,213
more JFK
I missed my appointment this week because of the snow in Boston. I did call the office at JFK who told me I could show up any time before the office closed at 8pm. Sadly I missed this by 4 hours.
I went down the next day on the off chance. There was a note at the top of the sign in sheet - "No Walk Ups". I was just about to walk off when an agent asked me if he could help me. I explained the situation, he pointed to the note and said, "take a seat". 15 mins later I was processed. Much "Merry Christmas' all round. I had the confirmation e mail this morning.
He was one of the most pleasant US Government officials I have ever encountered and the office seemed a happy place, staff and customers alike. So unlike an immigration queue.
Top marks to that chap. ^^^
I went down the next day on the off chance. There was a note at the top of the sign in sheet - "No Walk Ups". I was just about to walk off when an agent asked me if he could help me. I explained the situation, he pointed to the note and said, "take a seat". 15 mins later I was processed. Much "Merry Christmas' all round. I had the confirmation e mail this morning.
He was one of the most pleasant US Government officials I have ever encountered and the office seemed a happy place, staff and customers alike. So unlike an immigration queue.
Top marks to that chap. ^^^
Dec 19, 2013, 10:30 am
#695
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,885
Had my interview at the downtown location in DC this week.
Pleasant, brisk and businesslike: I reported fifteen minutes before my appointment time and was back out on the street with my confirmation on my iPhone a minute after my appointed time.
They wanted my approval letter, UK driver's licence and passport and visa. Didn't ask to see the ACRO certificate.
There were maybe four people waiting when I arrived with slots around my time. It took less than five minutes per person.
Only depressing note was that when my current work visa runs out in a year I'm going to have to make another appointment to have that put in the system.
That said, they can - and did with me - make you eligible for GOES both on your existing visa and any ESTA. So if I enter on an ESTA for leisure should I not have a current work visa, I'll be able to use the machines.
Pleasant, brisk and businesslike: I reported fifteen minutes before my appointment time and was back out on the street with my confirmation on my iPhone a minute after my appointed time.
They wanted my approval letter, UK driver's licence and passport and visa. Didn't ask to see the ACRO certificate.
There were maybe four people waiting when I arrived with slots around my time. It took less than five minutes per person.
Only depressing note was that when my current work visa runs out in a year I'm going to have to make another appointment to have that put in the system.
That said, they can - and did with me - make you eligible for GOES both on your existing visa and any ESTA. So if I enter on an ESTA for leisure should I not have a current work visa, I'll be able to use the machines.
Dec 19, 2013, 10:41 pm
#696
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Cayman, San Diego, London
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold, AA 4MM Lifetime Platinum, Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond Amb, Bonvoy Lifetime Gold
Posts: 1,054
Can ESTA be added to GE?
....when my current work visa runs out in a year I'm going to have to make another appointment to have that put in the system.
That said, they can - and did with me - make you eligible for GOES both on your existing visa and any ESTA. So if I enter on an ESTA for leisure should I not have a current work visa, I'll be able to use the machines.
That said, they can - and did with me - make you eligible for GOES both on your existing visa and any ESTA. So if I enter on an ESTA for leisure should I not have a current work visa, I'll be able to use the machines.
Do you know how to add an ESTA to the GE record, or does the system at the kiosk automatically look for one in the recorded flight information?
Dec 19, 2013, 11:11 pm
#697
Moderator: Hyatt Gold Passport & Star Alliance
Join Date: May 1998
Location: London, UK
Programs: UA-1K 3MM/HY- LT Globalist/BA-GGL/GfL
Posts: 12,087
I'm in a similar position. I have GE with a UK passport and my current work visa is in the record. It expires in May 2014. Thereafter I will enter for leisure only using an ESTA, although I don't have one at present.
Do you know how to add an ESTA to the GE record, or does the system at the kiosk automatically look for one in the recorded flight information?
Do you know how to add an ESTA to the GE record, or does the system at the kiosk automatically look for one in the recorded flight information?
Dec 20, 2013, 7:24 am
#698
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: North West, UK
Programs: BA GfL (GGL/CCR), Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,998
UK to join Global Entry program
just arrived at SNN on BA001 and sailed through immigration using GE kiosk for the first time. Top stuff. 5 mins after leaving the plane I'm waiting in the special zone to re board.
Dec 20, 2013, 9:14 am
#699
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The greatest wee nation on earth.
Programs: Iron Maiden FC, GE, Rapidly falling down the Tiers to oblivion.
Posts: 2,604
Its great, isn't it? It has massively improved all US entry points for me. I also noticed the machines out of order at MIA, and it has been that way for a while. Has anyone emailed Larry Panetta to let him know, as I bet he likes to know about that kind of thing going by how helpful he has been? I will if no one else has.
Dec 20, 2013, 9:28 am
#700
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canary Wharf, London
Programs: MyWaitrose, IC Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond & BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,685
I did wonder if anyone bothered using GE at SNN, as there was never seemed any point to it on BA0001, unless you got stuck behind another plane load of pax.
Dec 20, 2013, 3:59 pm
#701
Ambassador: Oneworld Alliance
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: LON
Programs: BA Gold (GGL), Hilton Diamond, AA Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,213
OT Pre TSA
Slightly off topic, I got PreTSA again today at RDU. It seems I get this on Delta and United (with whom I fly rarely) but never with BA or AA. Anyone with an idea why?
Dec 20, 2013, 6:45 pm
#702
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The greatest wee nation on earth.
Programs: Iron Maiden FC, GE, Rapidly falling down the Tiers to oblivion.
Posts: 2,604
Dec 21, 2013, 12:34 am
#703
Moderator: Hyatt Gold Passport & Star Alliance
Join Date: May 1998
Location: London, UK
Programs: UA-1K 3MM/HY- LT Globalist/BA-GGL/GfL
Posts: 12,087
Yes indeed - twice - and was through in 90 seconds from arriving at pre-screening to the little lounge by the gate. It was useful on my first trip as other planes were in pre-clearance at the same time as BA1
Dec 21, 2013, 7:16 am
#704
Ambassador: Oneworld Alliance
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: LON
Programs: BA Gold (GGL), Hilton Diamond, AA Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,213
Did you have a delta and united ff number in with them? Did you add your goes number to the bookings? On an American airline, you should get it with GE and their ff program as you can enter your goes number in their ff program. I get it on aa with an aa number and goes account info even though I am not a us citizen or any links to the us. On aa with a ba number you shouldn't but sporadic reports some are, and also that tsa pre is being rolled out to all randomly at some locations anyway, possibly system glitch like when I was approved as an aa plat when it first came out, but again, a Brit, no ties to the us other than an aa account! There is a big tsa pre thread, or some info here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...6-tsa-pre.html
Dec 21, 2013, 9:46 am
#705
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold(OWE), QF LTG, MR Plat, IHG Spire, Hertz PC
Posts: 8,156
I have gotten this on AA, but be aware that as soon as you show your foreign ID, they will almost certainly kick you out of the PreTSA line.