Yup. Assuming you do pre-clearance at YYC, it'll be a piece of cake. Assuming you're doing SFO-FRA on UA or LH, the G gate security line is pretty quick and international terminal is a quick walk from T3 (UA/CO/AC gates are there).

:rolleyes: That seriously depends on what time you get there. International security at SFO can seriously be a zoo.

Just applied for Nexus for myself, wife, 6 year old and 1.5 year old.

wish us luck! :)

FWIW, there's a GE office at SEA. It's upstairs, across from checkpoint 2 and the DL counter. That's where I did my GE interview.

I tried this at the YOW Nexus office and they said they didn't have any stickers. US fellow said not to worry, that "I didn't need it anyway". I'm going through ORD in Feb... will try to get one beforehand if I can work it in somehow.

Is there a volume discount? :D

Good luck with the process. I found the this thread and FTers here a wealth of info about applying, interviews, etc. so it made the whole thing much easier. :)

kids are free...MIGHT as well get the whole family "Nexus'd" lol

Is an appointment required to get the sticker at SEA?

Maybe some of your DYKWIA attitude showed through at the border.
Don't characterize an entire country negatively, based on a single experience.
I have had negative experiences at the Canadian border, but I don't hold that against the people of a great country.

Wow, reading your post I cannot help but feel you're the isolationist who feels that you can stereotype four hundred million people. If you read enough posts on border crossings in FT, you'll see plenty of boneheaded idiots working both sides of the border.

Last week, though, I got a random at Nexus when going through YUL preclearance. The officer couldn't have been nicer. Remembered me from years ago, asked when I became a US citizen, explained the process for inspecting my bag, asked if I was bringing in food and liquor. The whole time he went, thoroughly, through my bag we maintained a friendly conversation and ended up chatting for a few minutes after he was done. Last time I was in secondary on the Canadian side at that airport (for declaring coffee) I was treated like a criminal. I don't think either experience proves Americans are wonderful or that Canadians are jerks. People are people. (For example, I am both Canadian and American and am frequently friendly, but often a jerk.)

Agree with most of your post and all but when did 100 million extra people suddenly move to the US? I mean, I know the Mexicans are coming but their whole country isn't moving in! :p

It's hard to deny that Canadians tend to be more civil and calm-mannered than Americans, but you definitely cannot say that "most" Americans are clueless at travelling when in fact most Canadians are equally as clueless. You should have seen the guy I saw who tried to say he was an RCMP officer to try to get past security without a BP at YYC a couple of years ago. :rolleyes: That sure ended well. (This guy knew what real RCMP looked like after that!)

To be an isolationist would mean I don't leave my own country which is the complete opposite; in fact i'm abroad more than I'm home. And to suggest that i'm soley responsible for stereotyping what is already clearly known by the rest of the world is just plain silly :rolleyes: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Americans in general are not looked upon as being the most worldly and thats simply fact and not a stereotype, nor are they considered to be the most friendly.

And to further clarify my original point, the whole concept of being a NEXUS holder is that i am a trusted traveller and not a criminal; clearly this needs to be explained to some. I have not as yet faced any form of drama from the Canadian side of this equation and i equate this to the civilized approach that we take, plain and simple.

If I wanted to get the n'th degree from a jumped up traffic warden with a chip on his shoulder, i would have remained in the herd with the rest of the sheep!

Actually an isolationist is someone who is "an advocate of isolationism in international affairs of state". Doesn't mean that the individual doesn't travel. You have of course heard of the ugly American (and frankly when I am abroad, I find the Canadians to be more embarrassing). My point was that you were taking a single incident at a border crossing and saying that you would never take your shiny coins across the border again.

What happened to you can be summed up as: you got singled out for a random at primary inspection; you went to secondary inspection and they treated you like a person who was to receive secondary inspection. At the secondary site, they could't give a rat's if you are Nexus or a drug smuggler; their job is to inspect you. And yes, they were not terribly friendly.

Still, if you cross the border on a very regular basis, each time you save yourself forty-five minutes you have to think, wow, at some point I'm going to have to be inconvenienced for a random secondary, but this is great not having to wait in line today. The random secondary is the price we have to pay for having the privilege of traveling past all those poor folks standing in line or sitting in their cars for half an hour, an hour, two...

Now if you travel as much as you say you do, then this shouldn't be a surprise. However, if you don't use Nexus very frequently, and you seem to be getting randoms more often then not, I would agree that it may make sense to wait in the regular line. And those are people in the other line, not sheep. Just people that don't share your great cosmopolitan experience.

I guess I was just so excited that the 8 billionth person was recently born...

Just got my card the other day and I'm wondering what you guys all use to store the card in. Does everyone use the copper lined holder that's supplied or is there something better? I was thinking about getting a passport wallet that can hold both my passport and the card. Any suggestions?

Most people I've seen keep it within the "shield" sleeve provided either in a travel wallet or in their "personal item" carry-on. I've seen some people who haven't even detached the paper which the card and sleeve come attached to... :rolleyes: