My opinion? Now. Seriously. That way you won't have to worry about the price going up (there are rumblings about it going to $80 based on some CBSA proposal documents). If you renew now and need a renewal interview, you'll have plenty of time to schedule one; if you don't need an interview, you'll get a new card with a 2022 expiration date on it and be good to go.

Any time between now and the expiration date will give you the same extension to your NEXUS membership (5 years from your 2017 birthday), so it's not like waiting gains you anything. (Unless you're willing to wait for it to lapse and then re-apply to gain the remaining fractional year and extend your membership until 2023 instead of 2022, at the cost of not having it from your expiration date until your new membership kicked in. Not worth it IMO.)

Don't count on it; I vaguely recall at least one post saying that someone who'd applied for renewal pre-expiration and interviewed post-expiration only got the 5 year extension. You might also not even get a new interview; I didn't!

(At $10/year my willingness to play games to save money when renewing is extremely low, which is why I applied for my renewal almost a year early.)

Mine expires Dec 2017. I also do not really care about an extra few $$.

How likely is it to have no interview? I no longer work in or near a border city, although I do fly through Detroit often.

It seems a bit daft to not renew NEXUS for the price and extra benefits, even though at the moment I don't need the Canada portion of it.

My vague impression (based only on FT reports) is that it's more likely than not that you won't need an interview assuming you haven't had any brushes with the law or visited suspicious countries. The UAE was apparently not suspicious enough for them to ask me in (I did a DXB mileage run in 2014).

If you do need an interview, the Detroit enrollment center is not close to DTW; it might be doable on a really long connection, but not cheaply (two Uber/Lyft/cab rides, or a one day car rental).

Have no idea what the standards are for requiring a renewal interview or not, but when I last renewed (in 2012, it seems), where many weren't needing interviews, I did. The only thing that really changed was my address - a completely law-abiding citizen, and the closest to a suspicious country I traveled to was India - but don't think that would really rate. I have to renew soon (as does my wife) - hoping that neither of us needs one.

We renewed in 2015. Interviews were required. I'm not sure why. We had had no problems or violations. All they really did was thank us for observing the rules, and take new photos. I don't think they took new fingerprint scans. Canada didn't take new iris scans.

Luckily we had a trip to Europe planned and booked a long connection CDG-YYZ-YQR to give us a chance at the renewal interviews. They saw us right away even though we were 90 minutes early, so we still had time to chill in a lounge before our flight home.

Definitely don't assume you won't need an interview. The odds are small these days but definitely not zero.

My wife and I both had renewals in 2016. I needed an interview, she didn't. At my interview, the agent told me that my wife was lucky, as in the agent's experience, only about 1 in 20 renewals do NOT need an interview. They did note, however, that my wife's passport on the Canadian system had expired (she had only updated it in GOES when it got renewed), and so they asked that she drop by sometime so that they could update it with her new passport #.

Sigh...WHEN is that bug going to be fixed? :(

My renewal sure seems to be taking forever. Applied for renewal on 11/7. Still "Pending Review" on the CBP site, with a note to "check back every few days." At least I still have several months before mine expires. No sketchy countries visited.

I just renewed today. I have a lengthy list of countries on my list, including Colombia and Peru. Are they "sketchy"?

My renewal is coming up in couple of months and I fly a lot to the middle east (Saudi Arabia and UAE and once to Oman) for business purposes. Are these countries considered "sketchy"?

Went to our "interview" today. I use the term interview loosely. We went to Detroit. It wasn't an interview like I was thinking. More like going to the DMV. Walk up to a counter and the Canadian agent asked us to sign in and then asked us why we wanted or needed Nexus. Then we had a seat until the US agent called us up, took our picture and prints. Approval email from the GOES system was time stamped within minutes of when we completed the process.

Not nearly as sketchy as North Korea, which is what I have to report when I renew. :D

Does anyone have recent experience obtaining a NEXUS card with an old (10+ year) misdemeanor (or summary offence, as Canada would call it)?

I'm going to try soon. I am a US citizen who made some stupid decisions as a young adult and have a single misdemeanor conviction from July 2006. I received a 6-month suspended sentence, so the full 10 year period will have passed by next week. My conviction is equivalent to a summary offence in Canada (per CBSA officers one time when I was sent to secondary at YYZ) so I have never had any issues with my admissibility north of the border. I have stayed squeaky-clean since, am gainfully employed in a professional field, and do travel to Canada a few times a year for both business and pleasure.

US CBP has said in the past that a single misdemeanor conviction more than 10 years old would not necessarily bar someone from Global Entry approval, although most of the wording is vague. Canada seems to have a similar standard for NEXUS approval.

Worst case scenario, I'm out the $50 and can appeal to an ombudsman. I will report back in January. Has anyone else out there with a single 10+ year old misdemeanor had success getting NEXUS?

Your situation closely reflects mine and I am now a Nexus holder. They will ask you to show them some kind of proof of what the final court resolution was (not expungement but conviction related). There is an exception for drug related offenses though. I was told it was a no go regardless of how old the offense is.