I have used GE dozens of times and only ever received one card, to hand in to the customs agent. This is at ORD, IAD, & YUL. Never have I got, nor seen anyone ahead of me get, a Keep for Your Records copy.

I've only used GE once (I usually use NEXUS), at ORD, and it gave me two cards. I still have the "keep" card in my passport, as evidence of the trip.

Only time I used GE (LAX) the printer ate the card I was supposed to hand in, and only gave my receipt copy. Agent was very friendly and processed me manually.

I need to stop reading the Nexus Thread...it just puzzles me more...

It's a like a slow train wreck....just mesmerized with the complexity.

Does anyone know why they ask for your nexus card in the fastrack security line?
They always ask me for my card and I show it to them, but if the line is for all priority travellers why do they ask?

from my experiences as an I-20, I-94 student with NEXUS land crossing before.... the rule was if the I-94 card was surrendered, it must be reapplied upon arrival manually and then updated into your record hence the use of machines was not permitted. Nonetheless, there is a loophole, where if you are a canadian you can just enter as a visitor using NEXUS (or GE in your case).

According to wpj it does spit out an I-94 for non-canadians. So my response/past experience might not be the most accurate representation of 2012.

Give it a try and let us know. Worse comes to worse you can always walk into Secondary for manual processing.

My SO is on an H1-B, and has a multiple entry I-94 in her passport (which an airline rep. tried to take mistakenly last time, but that's another story). When she got her card, she was told to take the I-94 from the machine and toss it. I'm sure there's more upthread, where someone else was told by another officer to take it from the machine, and surrender it next time they leave the country. I think my SO has about 3 of 4 I-94's from the machine lying around home somewhere - and still has the multiple entry I-94 in her passport.

If you have a NEXUS card they send you to a specific line at domestic security that only has a WTMD and does not have a full body scanner.

This is in line with what I have experienced.

+1 million (or rather, a million +1's from me!)

Everyone has varying experiences and varying interpretations. I am assuming the program is designed to be confusing, and better yet, managed by people in varying manners based on training (or lack thereof).

I was just refused on this basis. It would have been nice if the criteria was clearly stated in the online application (or triggered due to dates entered).

Waste of 50 bucks.

Lorna

I don't think it is physically possible for me to read 265 pages to find if this has been answered, and it's slightly odd. So here I go:

Similar situation to the above. I go to Canada from the U.S. regularly, usually across an Ontario/NY land border. I'd like to apply for Nexus. However, I am often confused about "residence" requirements.

I am a resident of the U.S., I file U.S. taxes, have a U.S. driver's license and am registered to vote. However, I have been studying overseas for almost 3 years. That will be obvious when someone views my passport. But it's never been a "permanent" residence, and I am not treated in the UK as a UK resident.

Can I drop into a Nexus office to ask before applying? I'll be crossing the border next month, through a place with an office. Is it feasible to walk in and ask an eligibility question? (Not wanting to waste $50 per post above...)

Thanks.

I'm Canadian but spent a year living/working in Switzerland and hence didn't have the 3 years residency requirement. I totally missed this requirement but got the NEXUS anyway -- the CBP guy flipped through my passport and saw my work visa in my passport but either didn't notice or didn't care...

There was actually a discussion of residency in another thread with respect to someone who had been corrected on entry to Canada who was studying in the UK who marked themselves as resident though they were studying in the UK because the UK does not consider them resident. Try searching the Aeroplan forum for residency or something like that (I'm feeling too lazy sorry). The CBSA person changed their TDC to say visitor instead of resident because they were outside of Canada the majority of time, so they were no longer resident here.

Logically it seems to me to be considered resident has more to do with where you're spending your time than what anyone else says about who thinks you have what status.

Put another way, I suspect US CBP (and also the CBSA) will consider you resident in the UK, even though the UK does not (my experience is that the US and even Canada to a lesser degree, when it comes to immigration and security matters, care very little about what other countries say). However, that's my opinion.

Also, you can certainly stop into one of the centers to ask a question, but I wonder that the response won't be "you'll have to apply to find out for sure".

To this point, when I came home from Switzerland to Canada for Christmas, I marked out resident on the customs/immigration form. The border agent crossed out the resident section and marked me as a visitor. Was really strange to be a visitor in your own country when I was just doing a 1 year internship abroad. So, Canada definitely considers you a visitor...