Archived: Processing Timelines for 1st Time GE Applications by US Citizens and LPR
Dec 21, 2018, 10:27 am
#5656
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 1
51 Days... Tick tock
Submitted Nov 1. Waiting... patiently! Considering making the login page my homepage ;-) (Is that too much??)
Dec 21, 2018, 3:39 pm
#5657
Join Date: Nov 2009
Programs: DL PM 1MM
Posts: 3,441
Application Submitted: 12/20
Hello, I am new to the forum. I just wanted to ask everyone what we can expect of our recent Global Entry Application. Myself and my wife recently applied due to an upcoming trip in mid Feb in the states. We also have an overseas trip scheduled in May hence the reason to apply for global entry. My children are 8 and 10 months thus the need for help going through security checks and through customs. Both my wife and I submitted applications yesterday. We have normal jobs, clean records, and have lived a couple of places. We have only been overseas once and then a couple countries on a cruise. I would love to get approved and get an interview before our plane trip in mid Feb so we can have the TSA precheck portion with our kids. What's the chances of making that deadline? Thanks for any help.
Hello, I am new to the forum. I just wanted to ask everyone what we can expect of our recent Global Entry Application. Myself and my wife recently applied due to an upcoming trip in mid Feb in the states. We also have an overseas trip scheduled in May hence the reason to apply for global entry. My children are 8 and 10 months thus the need for help going through security checks and through customs. Both my wife and I submitted applications yesterday. We have normal jobs, clean records, and have lived a couple of places. We have only been overseas once and then a couple countries on a cruise. I would love to get approved and get an interview before our plane trip in mid Feb so we can have the TSA precheck portion with our kids. What's the chances of making that deadline? Thanks for any help.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-t...ility/children
Dec 21, 2018, 4:14 pm
#5658
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 2
Thank you for the response MNBP. I was under the impression that if my wife and I have Global Entry then we also will have TSA precheck for domestic flights. Therefore, our children would get to follow us through the TSA precheck line for domestic flights without them having their own tsa precheck or global entry. Is this true? This domestic flight is middle of Feb.
Later in the summer of 2019 we will be taking our over seas flights. We will be getting our 10 month old a passport and then getting him global entry along with our 8 year old. She already has a passport.
Does all this sound accurate and the best plan?
thank you!
Later in the summer of 2019 we will be taking our over seas flights. We will be getting our 10 month old a passport and then getting him global entry along with our 8 year old. She already has a passport.
Does all this sound accurate and the best plan?
thank you!
Dec 21, 2018, 6:34 pm
#5659
Join Date: Nov 2009
Programs: DL PM 1MM
Posts: 3,441
Thank you for the response MNBP. I was under the impression that if my wife and I have Global Entry then we also will have TSA precheck for domestic flights. Therefore, our children would get to follow us through the TSA precheck line for domestic flights without them having their own tsa precheck or global entry. Is this true? This domestic flight is middle of Feb.
Later in the summer of 2019 we will be taking our over seas flights. We will be getting our 10 month old a passport and then getting him global entry along with our 8 year old. She already has a passport.
Does all this sound accurate and the best plan?
thank you!
Later in the summer of 2019 we will be taking our over seas flights. We will be getting our 10 month old a passport and then getting him global entry along with our 8 year old. She already has a passport.
Does all this sound accurate and the best plan?
thank you!
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/frequentl...-precheck-lane
Dec 22, 2018, 10:27 am
#5660
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,639
Moderator's Note
Folks,
Please discuss issues experienced with Trusted Travelers programs arising due to the US government shutdown in the following thread:
Thank you,
TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator
Please discuss issues experienced with Trusted Travelers programs arising due to the US government shutdown in the following thread:
Thank you,
TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator
Dec 23, 2018, 9:03 pm
#5661
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 1
Hoping for some FT luck to be sent my way. Applied November 7th, charge hit my account November 8th. Its December 23rd still no response. My wife applied and I applied the same day and got conditionally approved November 11th. I hope that the government shut down has nothing to do with the processing. Running on my 7th week and with the holidays coming up I do not expect that the processing will be any faster. I had 2 trips within that time frame, I am a newly naturalized citizen but been living in Florida for the last 20 years.
Dec 27, 2018, 12:20 pm
#5662
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: CHS
Programs: DL Diamond, WN A-List, Marriott Platinum Elite, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 685
Applied on 12/21 and the website is now showing as "Conditionally Approved" as of 12/27. So just a 6 day turn around for us.
Although it might have to do with the fact that the application was for my 5-month-old daughter. Not too much to vet with an infant!
Although it might have to do with the fact that the application was for my 5-month-old daughter. Not too much to vet with an infant!
Dec 30, 2018, 5:35 pm
#5663
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 11
I will also report on my wife's progress. She is US Citizen, has never owned a passport (so never traveled outside the country). She has been to Canada several times before Passports were required pre-9/11/01. She has NEVER had negative contact with the law; no criminal record, no speeding tickets, even no parking tickets(it really irks me too). She is a clean as the White driven Snow as it were. So she is a PERFECT test case for GE wait times. She recently received her new and first passport on 13DEC18 after a 2.5 week wait (published time is 4 to 6 weeks so YEA FOR US).
13DEC18: Passport came in the mail
13DEC18: I applied for GE for her
15DEC18: Money was taken from my account
13~19DEC18: WAIT like the rest of the good people.
Her last name is different from mine and it ranked about 6,000 in number of people. So not many people have her surname so there should not be many people with the same first and last name. So there should be an easy background check.
13DEC18: Passport came in the mail
13DEC18: I applied for GE for her
15DEC18: Money was taken from my account
13~19DEC18: WAIT like the rest of the good people.
Her last name is different from mine and it ranked about 6,000 in number of people. So not many people have her surname so there should not be many people with the same first and last name. So there should be an easy background check.
So either the shutdown is affecting the approvals OR the background check is completely random. My wife is so squeaky clean, Mr. Clean would blush. Today makes 17 days so we missed the first bucket of approvals at the 10 day mark. Now we are tracking the 30~40 day mark. I will keep the board up-to-date.