joejet

We had the interview 2 weeks ago at MIA we needed the police certificates as well as proof of address, and they asked my wife loads of questions I got have you ever been to Mexico or Canada? Both yes they did ask my son if he had been to Mexico as well. Anyway all 4 of us processed in about 10 mins and the email arrived as we walked out of the room.

nbevan

Last week in downtown DC they just wanted the letter inviting me for interview, the police certificate and passport. The letter only asked for proof of residency (passport for UK), and I did not have to provide proof of address. No extra questions asked about me or my travel, so it just seemed like processing.

They asked for a US address "in case they had to send any papers". TSA PreCheck was not offered, though I already have it provided by AA (has so far worked one out of two times tried).

EDIflyer

Ah OK, didn't know if they accepted the basic ones or not - I already had an Enhanced one for work anyway so that bit was free and took zero time :P I'd gone and printed out copies of utility bills in the LAX Flagship lounge (love their ePrinting solution, did it from my phone!) but they never asked for them in the end - I guess the address on my driving licence was sufficient. I agree with your assessment of things re most of the screening being done in advance - let's face it, it's gives them a higher level of confidence than routine checks do given you have to get a police cert. Just a shame they don't give us automatic TSApre as a result! (and even if they did that non-US airlines don't have the ability to take the freq traveller number needed for it!)

t4wine

Vegas last Monday took 3 minutes max. Passport only asked for

gavvy

MCO last week only wanted my passport did not even look at driving licence or police cert. Other half had his scanned though - different person interviewing, though the one I had seemed to be in charge, all very inconsistent.

jcm9000

SQFAN, not sure if someone already answered, but no differences that i could tell. I just got my police cert from ACRO and not from cayman where I am just now. I didn't realise i might have been able to use the Scottish version at the time as a Scot, it was an easy process anyway. Oh and yes, i was asked for the ACRO cert. I took a bunch of other docs showing my name/address, they got pushed aside.

Pandra

We haven't received a card so far but we did get emailed letter confirming our application had been approved and that cards are only sent to US citizens and that you can't use cards at kiosks! However arrived into lax terminal 6 and we successfully went through, brilliant! Also used the goes customs line and straight through no queuing. We were really impressed

jcm9000

I did not see Full Score's post. I have never had an issue at MIA (my usual US entry point) and you definitely will not get a GE card, but did note half the machines were out of order last time at MIA which surprised me. The MIA GE staff that approved me back in June were confused they were dealing with a Brit (only the manager knew) so no real surprise the immigration staff would get confused (then again they deal with a lot of foreigners, a few of which have GE...). If anyone else comes across this, an email to Larry Panetta may be in order, I am betting he will send out a memo to MIA or wherever it occurs.

SQFAN

Thanks jcm9000 ^

RichardMannion

So to confirm, you don't get a card? I wondered why mine hadn't turned up after a month

TheBigRat

Been for my interview today in IAD - same as others - ACRO, Passport and Driving licence asked for - supplied, interviewed and email as I queued for the security check on my way to the gate 10 minutes later telling me to check my GOES account - Approved. Happy Bunny... took less than 15 minutes. To confirm from the interviewing officer, no more net new British applications will be entertained for now. I asked on behalf of Mrs BigRat...

EDIflyer

Nope, not as a non-US citizen.

billinghamn

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.

Full Score

I also made my first entry at MIA from GCM and found that, literally, more than half the kiosks were out of order. Then the one that I was able to use reached the final print out screen and told me it couldn't proceed. I had to queue up in a long GE line before a grilling with an immigration officer.

Have the machines been fixed yet, please?

billinghamn

No they haven't - there must be about 10 in a line aren't there, and I must have counted 7 were out of order, 1 was being used by someone else, and I took the next one, and I think there was another one beyond the one I was using.