This is a joke... 7 months wait for a 10 minute appointment!

Do you have to keep checking for cancellations?

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.

Yes, SFO is one of the few Global Entry Enrollment Centers that regularly accept walk-in interviews.

Please take a look at this thread (and be sure to check the Wikipost):

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.

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?

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.

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)

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...

Copied from Global Entry - Processing Time thread:

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.

My wife just got approved and there isn't a single appointment available in Milwaukee. Closest place is ORD.

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.

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.

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 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.

I think we're planning on working in the morning from the hotel, going to the interview, then going to IKEA. Not that much fun, but we're boring.

My renewal is coming up in a year or two. I hope that can be approved without an interview, too.

Question for you... just got pre-approval and ready to schedule an interview, but CLT literally says "no availability" and nothing else, no calendar or anything. This is different than some of the other locations where they will book out to June, August, etc. I was expecting to have to wait "months", but was hoping I could schedule something in April/May/June since I have such a rigid schedule I need to know well in advance in order to take a day off.

I haven't seen anything about them "stopping" interviews.

Most places take walk ins. The interview is real quick. You should schedule your appt but then call the location nearest you to see if they accept walk ins. If you leave a message, they normally return your phone call a day later.

I would love to schedule an appt if the CLT location would let me :D I will call them and see.

You are required to schedule your interview within 120 days now, correct (not necessarily have it completed within 120, just scheduled)? I think initially it was 30 days 4-5 years ago.

Moderator's Note:
 

Please continue any discussion of Walk-in interviews in the following thread:
There is only one report of an attempted walk-in interview at CLT in the wikipost; it was back in July 2016 and was not successful.

Thank you,

TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator

LAX
 

some early March appointment slots just opened at LAX, normally out to end of June.

I agree. Keep looking daily for appointment cancellations. I did that and was able to reschedule twice. I had to cancel one due to last minute travel.

Any recent experiences at the US Customs House location in NYC? It's showing as no availability...

Grand Portage and MIA are both still wide open for those interested.

It's open up now again, but the earliest available slots, cancellations aside, are in July. Slots at JFK seem to be open from mid-May.

same here.. i rescheduled twice last sept at EWR after checking almost every day! i was flying to korea in early oct and got lucky to get it before i took off!

Global Entry interview timing
 

From what I can gather, you need to pay and if accepted schedule an interview within a certain period of time.

I'll only be in the the States for two weeks in September, Denver (no walkins) and wouldn't want to pay and then find out there isn't any availability.

The websites don't answer this question, and when I emailed the message said it would take 2-3 weeks to answer.

Once you have your conditional approval, you can search for an interview date. If it is not acceptable, then log in several times a day, within two weeks, you should be able to find something acceptable. Best time to search is when Denver GE office is open, local time. September is 6 months away.

Denver International Airport (DEN)
Address: 8400 Pena Blvd
Denver, CO 80249
Hours of Operation: 10:00AM - 6:00PM, Monday - Friday
Contact Information: (303) 342-7400
DEN - Denver International Airport - Jeppesen Terminal, next to International Arrivals

Yes [5m] (5/31/2016 4:30pm w/ family member who had an appointment)

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=22732

When I used the web form to send a question, I got the response about 2-3 weeks to answer. The answer came in two days.

As 1KChinito said, you get to schedule your interview and your window is over five months away. No guarantees, but I would expect that you could make it work.

I tried calling the Denver number during working hours but just got recordings, no live options.

I gather need to schedule within 30 days once the conditional approval goes through. I not sure how far in advance that can be. Some people are saying nine months. Most much less.

It would be nice to be able to see the schedule before paying the fee.

The appointment can be rescheduled as many time as you need or want.
However, do not cancel an interview without immediately rescheduling another (Global Entry application cancelled due to elapsed time).

[MENTION=163853]JapanFlyerT[/MENTION] Data point for you. My wife got Conditional Approval on 2/22, I logged in and scheduled her appointment then. The closest available at that time was 9/15, so that's when she is scheduled.

Get this, I just logged her on to check appointment availability and it shows DEN as being "Fully Booked" and no available dates. I looked a couple of weeks ago and they were well into October already.

Myself, I got lucky. I got my CA on 2/22 also and had my appointment for 9/15. Within minutes I tried to reschedule and found an opening for 4/5! Got the interview done yesterday and DEN and was painless.

**I can confirm that there were signs posted that walk-in interviews are NOT accepted due to high volume of applications. Only existing GE members for account updates are accepted as walk-in.**

Thanks for the info [MENTION=846890]madmike283[/MENTION]

That is what I needed to hear, although I was hoping for someone to say Sept was wide open at the moment. I may end up in LA for a couple days as well which might increase my chances.

Moderator's Note:
 

[MENTION=163853]JapanFlyerT[/MENTION],

I moved your question about how long it takes to get a conditional approval to the following thread:
TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator

San Diego Intl airport showing mid to end of June OPEN

Was just able to snag an LAX appt for this week (13th) -

Appoitment Availability
 

A friend who lives in NYC tried to get an appointment in early May at JFK and nothing was available. She then looked at Boston, DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia same story.
However MIA was totally open and she got an appointment for this week? Why so much availability at MIA?

Not as many applicants.

If your friend logs into her GOES account and do a new search several times a day, she will find something much closer in a week or less.

Even with it presently showing no availability at all?

Yes, cancellation happens all the time and data is live. Thus available interview slots change constantly, best time to check is when your interested Global Entry office is open. This was how many of us got a much closer-in interview slot. Please note there are two locations in NYC; one in JFK and another in downtown.

Please come back and let us know what she fines.

Thanks. Will do

If you see NOTHING and are getting close to cut off to book - book anything you can where you are willing to do a cheap Southwest or other flight to do the appt (don't book the air yet though) - then keep trying to get a closer in local appt. Pretty much assure you if you look every 2-3 hours when centers are open you will see closer in dates appear as prior poster suggested. These are cancels or walk in's or consolidates for multiple people where the user is now interviewed and the original interview opens up right away