Sorry--I'm still trying to understand the scenario here and don't yet have a full handle on it. So you are saying that I wait in the same line as everyone else to get to the initial TSA agent who looks at my boarding pass? Then that agent scans the BP and, if I'm approved, would direct me to the PreCheck line to actually clear security?

What's confusing in this scenario is that, for this to work, EVERYONE would need to have their BP scanned to determine who is cleared for PreCheck. And I can't ever recall having my BP scanned at the TSA checkpoint. Usually they stare at it for a moment or two, compare it to my ID, make some scribbles on it, and then stamp it. But they never scan it--it is the airline that scans the barcode when I actually board.

Am I remembering wrong? I travel A LOT (even though I am just now trying to figure out how to use PreCheck) so it is hard to believe I've forgotten something that happens every time I go through TSA.

Most US airports have the scanners at the checkpoints to accomodate mobile BPs - thinking about it, don't remember if they scan the paper BPs, but they certainly could.

Too late, unfortunately, for all us early adopters who completed renewals already. I did my renewal interview, what, like a little over a month ago?

Interestingly enough, my dad got his conditional approval to set up a renewal interview - I wonder if he can call and have it waived.

You're kidding right? I mean, you absolutely must be joking? Please, please, please, tell me you're not serious.

'Cause if you are serious, I suggest you cut your NEXUS card in half and dispose of it immediately.

If you are in fact serious that filling out the TDC is an onerous imposition, there's a very simple solution - join the back of this 2+ km line up for the regular lanes:

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What bridge or crossing told you this? I pretty well got my head bitten off at the Whirlpool bridge and was told clearly to put my declaration in the box as all good boys and girls should.

Same boat. Applied in mid-March and still waiting. Status is STILL "pending"... so am about 8 weeks out now.

Saw on the GE thread that approvals are very fast. Sigh.

At the security entrances with PreCheck (and only those entrances for now), they do scan the barcode on every boarding pass. The plan is for scanning will actually be rolled out to all security checkpoints eventually; currently there's a pilot at IAD. The goal as I understand it is (a) to stop the easily-exploitable "fake boarding pass" loophole and (b) make it impossible for someone that's been SSSS'd to know in advance they've been SSSS'd, since that (along with PreCheck status) is encoded in the boarding pass.

The other caveat on the Known Traveler Number: don't wait until you check in to enter it, because then it's too late; it needs to be recorded on your reservation already when the Secure Flight info is transmitted to TSA 72 hours before the flight.

Fort Erie was the enrollment centre. Have a look upthread, several other mentions of it. The CBSA agent did add that it was advised to only do this when you had less than $75/person in goods, not including groceries.

Have done an oral declaration twice now at Whirlpool. Both times waved through. You probably got someone who was not updated on the new regulations. Happens sometimes; also, I have not noticed this information is updated in the documentation. As such YMMV (as indeed it seems to have for you).

Just got an email advising my renewal has been provisionally approved subject to the interview session. Expiry of my current card is mid-June, was offered an interview slot next week. However, I will be in Zurich next week. Earliest otherwise at YYZ was August 1st, which I took. Guess I will keep checking for cancellations before that.

Checked the application details and despite having taken my new passport in last Friday to have my file updated, it was still showing my old passport number. Not sure how to handle my entry at EWR from LIS later this month if I need to use GE due to line ups. At the moment I have no US travel planned for the balance of June and July.

Just log into GOES and update your passport information yourself. I did this myself in April and a GE entry at DEN last Wednesday went fine (as did my wife's last Friday at LAS; we updated our passport information the same day).

I'm not sure that dropping your passport off is enough to update the online system, but Canada seems to want you to do so. I'll have to see if I can squeeze the time to hop into the NEXUS office at YYZ on the 26th en route to DCA.

Canadian citizen working in US on H1B with Nexus - Travel Paris through Canada
 

I am planning to travel to France, via Montreal (live in south US).
I have a multiple entry H1B I-94.
I know I can use Nexus card to enter Canada, and from there take a plane to Paris (keeping my current H1B I-94 multiple with me).
Coming back Paris-Montreal (Nexus card to enter) and from Montreal to US, Nexus again.

I will still have my old I-94 multiple entry, is this ok?

Group interviews
 

My whole family (3 of us) plans on getting Nexus. One of us is already conditionally approved.^

Once we're all conditionally approved, is it possible to do a group interview of all 3 of us at the same time?

If so, how? Do we just have to hope that there will be 3 interview slots available one-after-the-other, or is there some other way to book a family/group interview?

Only the US side can update GOES. Not sure how it gets done - I've had to wait at the office while the Canadian side passed by passport onto the US side before, but not sure if they update it right away, batch copies and do it at some point later, or some other method.

FYI, my practice, based on personal conflicting reports of whether your supposed to bring into the office or not, not to mention the ones on here, is to update GOES myself as soon as I get the new passport, and update at the office the next time I'm close to one.

I've heard conflicting reports on this.

My wife has Nexus/GE, is on a H1-B and multi-entry I-94. Was told by CBP and by the US side at the Nexus office that as long she was leaving the US/Canada for less than 30 days, she was ok to use the same multiple entry I-94. Immigration lawyer, however, said, yes, CBP, from their perspective is probably ok with that, but that it might be problematic for USCIS. So I'm still not completely sure.

FYI...my wife comes back into the states now on GE, and gets a new I-94 every time, but still has the old, multi-entry I-94 in her passport.