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
Jan 10, 2017, 4:05 pm
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This is a joke... 7 months wait for a 10 minute appointment!
Do you have to keep checking for cancellations?
Do you have to keep checking for cancellations?
Jan 10, 2017, 4:27 pm
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It's totally worth it to check for cancellations
It's totally worth it to check for cancellations– Even once a week can usually turn up an appointment before too long.
Jan 10, 2017, 4:52 pm
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Please take a look at this thread (and be sure to check the Wikipost):
Global Entry Walk-In Interviews
Originally Posted by Wikipost
Note: It has been confirmed that there are six walk-in spots available twice a day: 7am & 3pm.
Obviously, to increase your chances of one of those spots, you will need to arrive earlier than those times.
Obviously, to increase your chances of one of those spots, you will need to arrive earlier than those times.
Jan 11, 2017, 3:03 am
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yes! Yesterday I had an appointment scheduled in April in SFO. I spent about 2~3 hours continually checking four centers that I knew I'd be traveling to soon. Early openings were popping up every now and then and disappearing within 5 minutes. You have to be lucky or patient.
Jan 11, 2017, 9:33 am
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Will the search calendar immediately show an available early appointment?
For example right now it scrolls to July automatically, if something opens up in Feb do I need to go back and check manually or will the system automatically display Feb as the first available date even though even only say one appointment exists?
For example right now it scrolls to July automatically, if something opens up in Feb do I need to go back and check manually or will the system automatically display Feb as the first available date even though even only say one appointment exists?
yes! Yesterday I had an appointment scheduled in April in SFO. I spent about 2~3 hours continually checking four centers that I knew I'd be traveling to soon. Early openings were popping up every now and then and disappearing within 5 minutes. You have to be lucky or patient.
Jan 11, 2017, 10:25 am
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You will see the earliest appointment available when you login
Is That your question? Do you mean if something opens up while you're looking? That I don't know, but it will always show the earliest appointment available when you login even if there's only one.
Jan 13, 2017, 11:13 am
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FYI, for anyone in the Detroit area, interview availability at the GE enrollment center near the Ambassador Bridge is wide open. I'll be in Detroit in a couple weeks for work and booked one there. A 6:45 PM appointment there seemed a lot more appealing than waking up for a 6 AM Sunday appointment, or sitting in rush hour traffic for a 9 AM weekday appointment at my home airport (STL)
Jan 15, 2017, 2:50 am
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I tried to do my interview at the SEA or SFO office, but both were booked way in advance. I also had a MIA trip coming up and checked for MIA. their whole calendar was pretty much empty and the officer told me that I dont even have to make an appointment at MIA I can just walk in. Well thats what he told me. He is also the one who told me to use my VISA page instead of passport ID page to get scanned at the booth. Luckily I figured that out myself before going back in line and waiting for ever in the regular immigration line...
Jan 18, 2017, 9:00 am
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Jan 18, 2017, 9:43 am
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When did downtown start processing interviews again? It said unavailable all Decembe. Same first week in January when I checked for my mother. Rockford was equally unavailable.
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Jan 26, 2017, 10:22 am
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I suspect that MSP isn't a lot farther from Madison than ORD. It might even be an easier drive. You might want to look for MSP appointments, although I know they were fully booked around the beginning of summer.
Jan 26, 2017, 10:24 am
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We booked a night at an ORD hotel. This process should be easier and more readily available -- no reason there's only one location in an entire state -- and it seems like around us it's either MSP, ORD, or MKE -- and good luck.
Jan 26, 2017, 10:28 am
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It sounds like you've sorted it out and are all set. Maybe you'll have a bit of time to have fun in Chicago.
Permanent GE interview sites are mainly located at major hub airports plus certain border crossing points and a few big city locations. I wouldn't expect one everywhere. This is said by someone who did the initial GE interview at JFK, long before it was possible at MSP.
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Jan 26, 2017, 10:43 am
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When I did my renewal, I was looking at driving up the Grand Portage but fortunately I was approved without an interview.
It sounds like you've sorted it out and are all set. Maybe you'll have a bit of time to have fun in Chicago.
Permanent GE interview sites are mainly located at major hub airports plus certain. Order crossing points and a few big city locations. I wouldn't expect one everywhere. This is said by someone who did the initial GE interview at JFK, long before it was possible at MSP.
It sounds like you've sorted it out and are all set. Maybe you'll have a bit of time to have fun in Chicago.
Permanent GE interview sites are mainly located at major hub airports plus certain. Order crossing points and a few big city locations. I wouldn't expect one everywhere. This is said by someone who did the initial GE interview at JFK, long before it was possible at MSP.
My renewal is coming up in a year or two. I hope that can be approved without an interview, too.