LAX just opened up 1 appointment on Apr. Hurry up and snatch it before it's gone! :p

LAX now shows available appointments for most of Jan 2017.

I'm still looking for something sooner at either LAX or LGB. Been constantly refreshing for the past few days.

Grabbed one for my wife to satisfy her 30 day requirement, but really want something earlier. I'm assuming if she doesn't interview before her expiration her pre check will lapse. Not something I really want for the holiday travel season

And weekends too! They did not have weekends appointments before. Moved ours from Feb/April to Jan and together... on the weekend.. awesome.

Timing for scheduling interview at MIA
 

Hope this is the right place to post this question.

Husband and I just got conditional approval today. No slots in NYC area for many months, and not convenient for us anyway.

Have 2 week cruise out of Miami, returning on 12/11 (Sunday). Flight home is at 5:51 pm UA to EWR. No interview availability pre-cruise, but as of now very open on return date.

Currently scheduled both of us at 12 noon just in case any issues with ship arriving late. My question is how to best do this in MIA as we have no familiarity with this airport.

Will have 2 carryons and 1 larger bag (it's a 2 wk cruise - no free laundry) plus personal item each. Can check 1 bag each for free on flight home. Will have Priority Pass for lounge access. Don't have TSA Pre.

Should we drop off checked bags first, then go for interview, then clear security? Or should we go to interview first, schlepping luggage? Should we change time of interview?

Suggestions welcome. Thanks.

The number will be in the pre-approval letter, it doesn't change.

I just did my interview at Boston and they were running about 5 people ahead of schedule. Scheduled for 7:30pm, arrive at 6:40pm. A CBP guy stuck his head out and just waved me over. In-and-out within 10 minutes.

As far as walk-in, the officer said "it depends". They have the discretion to pull up your application and do the interview if they want to, but it's not a locked-in procedure.

FYI.. for those in the NYC area, as of this post (Oct. 20, 2016) the JFK Global Entry office strangely just opened up a pretty much all of November for appointments, whereas previously the next available date was Jan. 2017. Hope that helps for those who are scheduled months in the future, or happen to have flights @ JFK next month.

I was able to amazingly grab something the week of Thanksgiving and she is off, so that works out. However, it's 7 days before her birthday :( That means she would basically get the absolute minimum amount of time out of her membership (5 years). If we can get something a week later, she'll get almost 6 years.

Keep trying. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Long Beach availability wide open online
 

Tonight, LGB opened up all of Oct and Nov schedule. I hope it's real that wide open and not a computer glitch that would keep me from being interviewed on my new day.

Hot d@mn! Thanks for the heads up. December is open as well. Rescheduled my wife for after her birthday

Lax cancelled all weekend appointments but managed to grab long Beach in December. Hopefully this one won't be cancelled.

You mean they actually cancelled existing appointments? Glad I switched off of a weekend there

As BOS was backed up 7 months and my wife's membership expired in five months, we drove to New Brunswick as they had hours free at a time on multiple days. Two great fellows without much to do there..we were in and out quickly slowed down by only pleasant conversation. We were told they were aware of BOS scheduling issues and an effort was underway to get Canadian fellows down to BOS to help out clear the backlog. Easy trip up, spent the night in Portland, and back to BOS the next day. Coming back through the border into the US, the border guard said he had had people from even Connecticut and Pennsylvania make the drive up.

Isnt South Burlington a better idea ?