When you are sent to secondary from NEXUS they ask for your passport in addition. I also presented my NEXUS card at a land border and the agent stated that she didn't see my Canadian passport on her machine, so I had to present it there as well. Once in a while, when you don't expect it, somebody will ask for your passport and that's not the time to review the rules for them.

Seems to be the case that, for travel to the USA, Nexus is being phased out in favour of Global Entry - And GE needs a passport.

I had entered my NEXUS info at the time of booking. When I tried to web check in it wouldn't let me print my boarding pass and said to check in at the airport. I wasn't able to edit the advanced info at that point so I called Air Canada and had them delete all of my NEXUS info on file and enter my passport information instead. Once I did that I was able to check in and print my boarding pass. Hope that helps!! :-)

A friend of mine was born in the US but was required to renounce his citizenship as his father was a diplomat from another country that demanded it (for reasons not germane to this discussion). Thus, he has a US birth certificate but is not a US citizen - that's why they ask for a passport or evidence of renunciation (and therefore another passport). Your daughter can choose either route.

Just an FYI.. While I understand they would liketo see this, I want to say 99.9999% of the time this isn't going to be an issue. Even if one renounces their US citizenship, are they really going to be denied entry in to the US? I highly doubt it. Getting a SSN or anything else a citizen is entitled to would be different, but I don't think they'd deny you entry any more than Canada denies me entry because I refuse to carry a Canadian passport.

"All NEXUS members can enjoy the benefits of Global Entry at no additional cost through using the automated kiosks for entry at participating airports. NEXUS members will need to check their status in their Global Online Enrollment System account, as they may need to submit their 10-fingerprints or any other necessary documentation in order to receive Global Entry benefits."

I'm going the opposite direction...already have GE and applied for NEXUS about two weeks ago. I don't know if having GE already approved means that the U.S. review for NEXUS will go faster or not. Anyone have any experience with this?

From reading earlier posts in this thread I am getting the impression that the time from application to conditional approval is taking longer and longer. Is 8 weeks the current norm?

It seems to wander all over. I applied at the beginning of January this year, and received conditional approval in under three weeks.

Edited to add: sorry to be adding overlapping input later - I posted reply before seeing several followup posts.

OLCI will not work if your NEXUS number was input with your reservation. The reservation allows you to input NEXUS or Passport number at that time. Don't do it. Leave it off until OLCI.

OLCI appears to be trying to find a place to put it and it can't because something is already there. It is a bug.

Try removing your NEXUS number from the reservation, then start the OLCI process over. Feel free to use the NEXUS number at that time. I like to have the NEXUS number for hoping to convey my Trusted Traveller status (vs SSSS) and to inform the system to expect me at the GE/NEXUS machines which I think superstitiously maybe they won't if I use passport.

It DOES work in place of passport number. We had a long discussion upthread about having the passport with you when travelling internationally, but you do NOT need to use passport number instead of NEXUS for this purpose.

Does that solve it?

Yet another picture of why NEXUS is so great. 7:45PM Tuesday at YUL.
Not at single person at the NEXUS kiosks while hundreds queue for C&I. :)

http://sfo777.smugmug.com/Other/Misc...IMG_3249-M.jpg

Returning this morning, not sure if should have done this but I bypassed the BP/doc checker at the initial entrance to the trans-border security. The VIP/NEXUS sign has always been there, with the arrow was straight ahead to an always closed lane. Was slightly angled today suggesting maybe a separate entrance to the right. After that nothing there were nothing but Crew Only signs. I followed a couple of AC pilots down the corridor, no one challenged me and I simply strolled into the pre-security area and up to the real doc checker at security.

Thanks so much for your reply!! I will try this with my next flight and see if this works. :-)

Hi DLFan2. I did exactly what you did. The approvals processing time seems to oscillate quite a lot. I think mine took maybe 3-ish weeks from application to approval. Having GE didn't really expedite it I don't think.

The big bottleneck though is the interview. Depending on where you live, it can be a real trial to find an appointment. Toronto at one point had about a 4 month backlog. And despite having GE, I still had to interview with both Canada and the US.

Thanks for the info...I'll just continue sitting tight. It may be a while.

Transiting YYZ to US
 

Hi Folks,

I did a search of this behemoth of a thread but I couldn't find the answer I'm looking for, at least a recent one. Please don't flame if this has already been asked and answered before.

I'm flying YVR-YYZ-MCO with my wife and 3yr old next week and I've never transited to the US before via YYZ (usually enter the US via YVR). We all have NEXUS/GE. 3yr old obviously did not have iris/fingerprints taken so he won't be using the kiosk.

1. Are there kiosks in the transit area in YYZ terminal 1 for the adults?
2. If not, do we get to bypass the line with NEXUS/GE in the transit hall or is it better to exit and clear from outside?

We've got an 80 minute connection, which is a little on the tight side with the kiddo in tow. At least there's no more waiting for bags involved.

Thanks.