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Originally Posted by dnotes
(Post 15642093)
searched this entire post, basically to get a faster appt date, hope that someone cancels? and to keep checking after you've booked your appt in the meantime?
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Originally Posted by GoAmtrak
(Post 15648977)
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Got a couple dumb questions, couldn't find the answers upthread. I'll be flying to Canada soon with a non-NEXUS family member. We're both dual citizens; she'll be traveling on a Canadian passport and I'll have my US passport as a backup to NEXUS card (my Canadian passport is expired). Can I go through the Canadian citizen line with her? Also, does one have to complete a Customs declaration form when entering either the US or Canada via NEXUS kiosks? I was pleasantly surprised that I did not when entering the US with GE, but is NEXUS as easy? You need to complete a declaration card when you use your Nexus card in either direction. You then hand the declaration card and the print out from the Nexus machine to an agent at the exit (or in a booth, depending on the airport). |
Thanks for the summary Shareholder!
Originally Posted by Shareholder
(Post 15647976)
Don't know the name of the officer who processed my transition, but the ORD office was very quiet when I went there Tuesday morning around 10a. Just go to T5 on the lower arrivals level and the office is at the very far end of the hall. Since the formal announcement only went out last week it is not unusual that LAX was a bit clueless.
The key issue is having a set of fingerprints in your NEXUS file, but also that the NEXUS and GE databases are not yet integrated so the email message is a bit ambiguous. If you had a full set of fingerprints taken when you got your NEXUS card, then you are likely set to go. If not, then you need to get this into your file. The process includes an actual application being input into their system, then merged with your existing NEXUS file. You need your passport as this is put into the machine for reading and initial ID purposes. Then you do a fingerprint confirmation. After that it is similar to the NEXUS kiosks in that you answer the questions found on the blue cards. You then get two cards, a large one that is collected upon leaving the customs hall (as with NEXUS) and a smaller one that you are supposed to give to the airline when you next leave the US. If either card has an "X" across it, you need to see an officer and you can go to the head of the line adjacent to the machines. After registering you do get a sticker for your passport to flash to get into the proper lane (should there be someone directing people). So even if you are set to go in the NEXUS system (i.e. you know you did a full set of fingerprints) you should check in with a GE or NEXUS office to have this sticker affixed to the back cover of your passport. |
NEXUS and Global Entry
Hi Everyone,
It has been busy around NEXUS / Global Entry (GE) for myself. Along with the comments from the earlier posts...definitely keep trying for an earlier appointment. I applied for my NEXUS on 26DEC, approved on 31DEC, original appointment at the city location in YVR in late Janaury and kept checking and booked an earlier interview at Blaine on 04JAN. I have not done my iris scan and therefore still have my CANPASS. I'll drop in at YVR next wkend to get that done. My message in my GOES account indicated everything was good for me to use GE. My wife's GOES account indicated that 10-fingerprints needed to be taken. We went to the GE office and they checked and they said everything was in good order even through the message in GOES said otherwise. He also checked my account and everything was in good order. Nothing else was asked for us to do. I did ask for the GE sticker and it was affixed on the inside back cover of our passports and it says "CBP". There was a machine there and I practiced it and all was good. GE reaffirms my choice of flying intercontinental with UA via SFO/SEA and ORD/IAD. It will be great not having to wait through the line with the masses (especially at IAD). It reminds me of the days I had my INSPASS which saved hours in waiting in line at MIA, while the INSPASS program existed, when I lived in PLS. Cheers |
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Originally Posted by rehoult
Originally Posted by GoAmtrak
(Post 15648977)
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Got a couple dumb questions, couldn't find the answers upthread. I'll be flying to Canada soon with a non-NEXUS family member. We're both dual citizens; she'll be traveling on a Canadian passport and I'll have my US passport as a backup to NEXUS card (my Canadian passport is expired). Can I go through the Canadian citizen line with her? Also, does one have to complete a Customs declaration form when entering either the US or Canada via NEXUS kiosks? I was pleasantly surprised that I did not when entering the US with GE, but is NEXUS as easy? You need to complete a declaration card when you use your Nexus card in either direction. You then hand the declaration card and the print out from the Nexus machine to an agent at the exit (or in a booth, depending on the airport). |
Originally Posted by GoAmtrak
(Post 15650555)
[SIZE=1] It would be nice if NEXUS could further align with GE and not require declaration cards, at least for US residents entering the US. I find it ironic that, under these programs, it takes less paperwork to return to the US from any country but Canada. Should be the inverse, no?
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Originally Posted by sing-along
(Post 15650157)
GE reaffirms my choice of flying intercontinental with UA via SFO/SEA and ORD/IAD. It will be great not having to wait through the line with the masses (especially at IAD). It reminds me of the days I had my INSPASS which saved hours in waiting in line at MIA, while the INSPASS program existed, when I lived in PLS.
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Originally Posted by Shareholder
(Post 15650933)
...other than I suspect people understate the value of the goods they bring into the country!)
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So glad that the Global Entry program is now available to Nexus card holders. Will make my reentry into the US so much faster than waiting an hour+ in the queue!
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Last October I took Porter to Boston and got stuck behind several planeloads of European arrivals at CBP. No preclearance at YTZ (but coming soon?) and no Nexus at BOS :mad:
So I was thrilled to become GE eligible but when I called the YYZ Nexus office I was told to book a fingerprinting appointment on GOES. Went on GOES and can't apply for GE - called GOES support and was told that I don't have to apply - just to show up at YYZ. Information mismatch, so before I head out to Pearson, has anyone done this as a walk-in? |
Originally Posted by murmurdoc
(Post 15663176)
Last October I took Porter to Boston and got stuck behind several planeloads of European arrivals at CBP. No preclearance at YTZ (but coming soon?) and no Nexus at BOS :mad:
Originally Posted by murmurdoc
(Post 15663176)
So I was thrilled to become GE eligible but when I called the YYZ Nexus office I was told to book a fingerprinting appointment on GOES. Went on GOES and can't apply for GE - called GOES support and was told that I don't have to apply - just to show up at YYZ.
Information mismatch, so before I head out to Pearson, has anyone done this as a walk-in? Unfortunately didn't make it then, but will try at the end of the month with the GE office as I have a lengthy layover in ORD and will be in SFO. |
YYZ Experience with Global Traveller Stickers on 2011-01-14
I had 3hrs in YYZ Terminal 1 yesterday so I though that I would check up on getting a Global Entry Sticker.
I am Nexus and my present card was issued 2009. I stopped by the Nexus office near row H. I was told by a CBSA Officer that YYZ did not have the Global Entry Stickers on site, and that they MAY arrive next week. She also said that I needed to re-apply (make an appointment for interview) for Global Entry with no fee payable. I told her that my GOES account suggested differently, and said the following: "As a NEXUS member, you can now use the Global Entry kiosks located at the top 20 major U.S. international airports to enter the U.S. To use the Global Entry kiosks, you must use a valid machine readable passport. Do not use your NEXUS card in the kiosk, but you may wish to carry it with you. There is no additional cost to use Global Entry, and you may use it for the duration of your NEXUS membership. Additional information about Global Entry can be found at http://www.GlobalEntry.gov/. If you do not wish to use Global Entry kiosks, please disregard this message. " I did not receive an email welcoming me to the Global Traveler Program. CBSA Officer at YYZ said that I still needed to make an appointment and have an interview regardless. I didn't debate this but it appears contradictory to what every person has experienced. I did not get her to check my account as there was a line, waiting list, no receptionist, office in disarray etc... I'm going to wait a few weeks for the people to get trained up, because it seems there are vastly different experiences across Canada. :td: |
My GE - Nexus Experience
Called Halifax CBP office and got the Canadian Office who said they don't do it. They gave me the US-CBP phone number. Called US-CBP phone number and was told to "apply on line" on the GOES Site.
Tried to apply on line, but the GE link won't light up. So I call the US-CBP the next day and get a different agent who says the Nexus-GE data have been merged so I don't need to apply for anything. I just need to show up and get fingerprinted (as stated on my GOES homepage) and get a sticker put in the back of my passport. Appointment made for the weekend. Show up for my appointment, and am told that I do not have an appointment today, or any day for that matter. The agent that gave me my appointment is away for a week. With great reluctance, the US-CBP agent agrees to process me. Apparently I am the first to be done at Halifax. The cheat sheets they use don't work. Second US agent called down to help out...he's more adventurous and tries clicking other links to process me on the computer...computer crashes....things get going and over 40 minutes or so he manages to click enough links on his machine to grant me "conditional approval" for GE (new picture taken, finger prints taken). Alas, he has no stickers....they are upstairs on the "US side" and I am being processed as a Canadian on the Canadian side. He calls up to have someone bring down a sticker. That someone tells him stickers are no longer needed. Having a Nexus card is enough. No sticker for me! I'll try GE next month returning from Mexico via USA. I'm not optimistic that things will go "without a hitch" for sure! |
Clearly the announcement concerning NEXUS / GE was made before the front line was readied. :rolleyes:
The email certainly seems to imply that we don't need to do anything. I would be very interested to hear people's real experiences though. Perhaps it will be a good idea to print the email and carry it around for the first little while. |
GOES question
I applied for NEXUS before the online (GOES) system was an option.
It seems that many here are logging into their goes account to see if they are eligible for GE and what step they have to complete. How does a NEXUS member without a GOES account join GE? Many thanks! |
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