Global Entry: Tips for Rescheduling Interviews?
 

Hi all,

Quick question about Global Entry appointments.

The Global Entry interview center at San Fran is all booked up until February. They told me on the phone I can keep checking back to try to reschedule my appointment at an earlier date in case someone cancels their appointment, but that I have to be really "fast" about it. I've checked back over the last past two weeks and have never found any earlier openings.

I don't understand in principle how you can be "fast" about it considering that someone could cancel their appointment at any given time of the day, meaning you would theoretically have an equal chance of finding an open slot no matter what time of the day you log in to check.

Unless anyone is aware that, rather than the calendar updating automatically when someone cancels an appointment, there is a set time each day of the week that they update their calendar with new time slots due to cancelled appointments? Any other tips to try to get a better interview scheduled?

Would appreciate any insight so I can try to get in there before Feb of next year, thanks!

I went from February to today just by constantly refreshing every five minutes. Gotta be dedicated.

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As AREsq said, keep checking either manually and/or with a plug in/script. If you do a new search every 5 to 10 minutes for the next 48 hours, you are very likely to find something for the next two weeks. SFO is now open 24/7 til 12 Aug 2016 and extended hours thereafter, your chance is excellent. You have to be persistent.

Good luck and let us know your result.

One thing worth noting: I was sitting in the ORD office yesterday when a pilot walked in and said that he'd just scheduled a same-day interview via GOES. The agent manning the front desk told him tough luck, they weren't accepting same-day appointments. (They were running 50 minutes behind schedule, so that's understandable.) Might want to call the office to confirm before you head to the appointment.

Maybe that pilot should have rephrased his sentence; I have an appointment today at XX:XX. End of sentence. It does not matter when his appointment was made, as long as it was confirmed online with a print out or screen shot.

Or how badly do you want it.:D

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/26947058-post3985.html

yolandearagon did a $583 day trip yesterday from PWM to EWR.

confirmed that SFO appointment book just opened up starting Feb 2017. But confusingly, it appears it is no longer a 24/7 office.

I checked September 2016, and at that time it's a 9-5 center. :mad: So pretty much if I want a walk up, I need to show up at 8am...

In the pilot's case, the conversation actually started with, "I'm here for my 2 pm appointment," to which the officer responded, "You're not on my print out. When did you make your appointment?" And then the pilot was told to come back in October (next available appointment month).

Managed to move from February to October just now. If anyone wants a slot on February 1st, it's now available :-)

I keep refreshing and SLC is now booking into March 2017. Sigh. Haven't seen anything sooner than my appointment yet.

ETA: looks like I need to stop over in Miami ;)

There are actually several locations you can obtain a next day appointment. When I have time, I will list them in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...id=22732's wiki.

I have found MIA and JFK have daily openings. The last time I checked those was a week ago, though... This GE program is crazy popular though. Seems to change all the time.

Crashed the site today when I tried to snag July 27th at 11:15pm. Looks like someone else was grabbing at the same time and that blew everything up. At least that person gave me an opening in September, so I moved up. Getting there, bit by bit.

btw, this is slightly off thread -- is everyone being forced to go in for an interview to renew GE, or am I "lucky" ?

Please ask that question in the following thread:
Thank you,

TWA884
Co-moderator, Travel Safety/Security

Moving right along. A slot on 26 July 2016 is waiting for you if you try harder.:D