Jul 24, 2016, 1:45 pm
Last edit by: TWA884
You can check for interview availability (without needing to be logged in) at TTP - Schedule Appointment
This page includes a checkbox you can use to show locations with the soonest availability, although they tend to be few in number and near border towns.
You may also wish to consider:
Note also that a location that has literally zero availability for future interviews today, may pop up with available slots tomorrow (or even later today), presumably as people with scheduled appointments do EOA or walk-in thus freeing up their original time slot. So it may be worth checking back periodically.
This page includes a checkbox you can use to show locations with the soonest availability, although they tend to be few in number and near border towns.
You may also wish to consider:
- Enrollment on Arrival, which can be done while clearing immigration during international return to the US: Global Entry Enrollment on Arrival
- Some locations offer walk-in interviews even if you do not have an appointment: Global Entry Walk-In Interviews
- If you will be passing through MIA, their GE office nearly always has immediate availability and is open very late.
Note also that a location that has literally zero availability for future interviews today, may pop up with available slots tomorrow (or even later today), presumably as people with scheduled appointments do EOA or walk-in thus freeing up their original time slot. So it may be worth checking back periodically.
Global Entry Enrollment Interview Availability
Aug 11, 2016 | 6:27 pm
#151
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 13
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.
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.
Last edited by webslog; Aug 11, 2016 at 6:29 pm Reason: More info.
Aug 11, 2016 | 7:00 pm
#152
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: SFO
Programs: COdbaUA Platinum 2MM
Posts: 5,602
I was joking with you with a smiley. Assuming you do new searches frequently, you shall find a close in slot very soon.
Aug 12, 2016 | 1:06 pm
#154
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 13
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.
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.
Aug 12, 2016 | 1:15 pm
#155
Join Date: Mar 2008
Programs: AAPLT, RR Alist
Posts: 220
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.
That said, I have noticed more times becoming available at the Texas airports.
Aug 15, 2016 | 11:30 am
#157
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 13
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>
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>
Aug 17, 2016 | 2:37 pm
#158
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 2
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.
Aug 17, 2016 | 6:38 pm
#159
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 13
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.
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.
Aug 18, 2016 | 11:28 am
#160
Join Date: Aug 2016
Programs: United Virgin Atlantic JetBlue
Posts: 1
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.
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.
Aug 18, 2016 | 12:41 pm
#162
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: SFO
Programs: COdbaUA Platinum 2MM
Posts: 5,602
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.
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.
Aug 18, 2016 | 9:19 pm
#163
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 9
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.
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.
Aug 20, 2016 | 4:24 am
#164
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: BOS/BDL
Programs: UA Premier Plat, Marriott Gold, Hilton Gold, Hyatt Dis, IHG Gold.
Posts: 73
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!
Aug 22, 2016 | 10:43 am
#165
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: PSC
Programs: Hilton Diamond/IHG Platinum/DL Plutononium
Posts: 1,735