1KChinito ... trade?

If you don't mind posting back, I'd be interested in your insights on the Nashville office. Did everyone show up around your time? No-shows? Is the interview office actually the broom closet I imagine it is behind that door?

Good luck.

I was joking with you with a smiley. Assuming you do new searches frequently, you shall find a close in slot very soon.

Yup. Searching frequently; every other day I've jumped forward. Nashville's home so obviously, closer will be better.

8/12 pm update

BNA = 14 Sept. Work the lurk, folks.


8/10 pm update

BNA = 27 September. Another 2 months forward. Might be able to pull this off in time for my Berlin trip in three weeks.

8/9/17 am update
BNA = 10 Nov - another 2-month leap forward. Lurking works. I'm not willing to burn points to fly to another airport to get my KTN before heading out to Berlin.

8/4/17 noon update:
BNA = 19 Jan 2017 - that's two months in two days, and the avails have always shown up around noon-ish (when the center opens). Makes me wonder if the person there is checking some sort of inbox and updating. But I would think that the online scheduling borg handled it automatically. In any case, I'm revising my lurk plan to focus more around the 11am - 1pm hours.

8/3/17 noon update:
BNA = 15 Feb 2017 What's weird is that the calendar appears to only show the Center open 4 hours/day (noon - 4p).


BNA = March 23, 2017
Went out to Interview Center to try walk-in about 45 mins after open. Office was at end of hall, no lights on in hall. Waiting room was locked. Waited in hall for about 20 mins, not a peep. No one in, no one out.

Back to lurking the scheduling calendar.

Argh-- Anyone else get an email about weekend availability for interviews? If so, what did it say? It was in my spam folder, and I realized it wasn't spam approx 100 milliseconds after I hit 'delete.'
That said, I have noticed more times becoming available at the Texas airports.

Not weekends, but extended hours?
 

I just popped forward a month from September 14 to August 17 (This Wednesday) at Nashville; noticed that the office had added another hour's worth of interview slots.

8/15/16

BNA = 16 August 2016. So what we learned is checking back in 4 times a day may ultimately help you jump forward pretty significantly. Though I'll bet a dollar to a donut that the minutes I spent lurking far outstrip the time I'll save in bypassing customs and TSAPre lines. But then again, it's not really about that, is it> ;)

Found some info out during my appt. today in BNA. A new office is opening in Memphis in the next few weeks if it already isn't open already. That should help offload some backlog in the southeast. Also, the officer said the BNA office only does appointments only three days a week. 32 appointments day.

legwandfly - three days a week, 12p to 4p!

It must have been pure dumb luck and persistence I was able to go from Application Submitted to Approval Notification in 17 days. My officer said cancellations were pretty frequent, and that often times, she would receive calls to cancel, which she had to hand-process (versus the schedulee popping over the the GOES site and cancelling themselves.) Those cancels would show up as openings within 24 hours, versus almost instantaneously when handled by the site.

All of which is to say for anyone checking this thread, keep hitting the schedule site back once you've got one on the books because slots open at your preferred location all the time.

I have been following this thread as I recently applied for GE. Here was my experience
Online Application: July 20
Online Approval: July 28
First Appt, JFK October 10
Found Open Appt last week for August 16 at Newark by logging in every few days.
Approved at Newark.
Interview began on time, standard questions re arrests, date of birth, name, places I have travelled, etc...


Overall a very good experience.

SFO has opened new night time availability starting in Nov (most of that is gone) and continuing from there.

Welcome to FT. Looks like Global Entry conditional approval is a week now. That is pretty fast.

Memphis interview office opens for appointments!
 

On July 12 I posted that I was having trouble getting an interview appointment anywhere near Memphis. Closest locations was BNA (Nashville) booked until 2017. But the Memphis office opens in September (was supposed to open last February) and is now taking appointments. Plenty of slots open in September. Yea!!!
Anyone needing an appointment from out of town come visit Memphis. Best barbeque in the world and you can visit Graceland too!
Now, if we could just get some more flights into Mem. The airport has been a ghost town since Delta closed the hub here.

Alert: Boston added slots,
 

If you have applied for Boston Logan, you're in luck; instead of may 2017 availability, new slots during expanded hours are available starting Monday, august 22nd.see you there!

Nice! Just snagged a September 9th slot