Has anyone had any issues with children's fingerprints not registering at a US Global Entry kiosk? I'm wondering if I should have my children's fingerprints redone as they grow. I know that the pattern doesn't change, but the overall dimensions do.

Problems with children's fingerprint have been discussed in this thread:

Unfortunately, after reading through all 14 pages of that thread, I've learned that my particular issue has not been discussed.

I've posted my question in that thread, though.

Thanks for reporting that enrollment centre updates get reflected in TTP.

I wouldn't be proactive about it. Schlepping your child down to the NEXUS office unnecessarily isn't fun. If your child's fingerprints are rejected at a global entry kiosk, just head over to the crew line with your child's NEXUS card for expedited entry. Then you'll know to pay a visit to the NEXUS office at a later time.

Okay, I confess that while I haven't read all 700+ pages of this thread, I read the Wiki and I'm still confused.

I am being told by other people that if you are approved for Nexus, you have Global Entry, regardless of point of entry to this country. They're saying you can spend LESS money and still get ALL of the Global Entry benefits with Nexus. I thought Nexus was a dedicated program between Canada and the US.

If someone could please help me out here, I'd be much obliged.

Once you are registered for any program with CBP, you get all GE benefits. Nexus just indicates that you are able to use Nexus kiosks to enter Canada. Plus all GE kiosks are alike. Why would they exclude you from using all of them?

Yep. All the benefits of GE and Precheck, plus the equivalent benefits in Canada. And yep, the GE and PreCheck benefits apply to all locations with GE and PreCheck. At half the price.

It's government math, most likely the result of an agreement between the US and Canada where Canada insisted on limiting the cost. The few disadvantages I can see:

- You have to travel to/near the Canadian border for the interview
- You have to be interviewed by both CBP and CBSA
- If you are inadmissible to Canada, you won't qualify for NEXUS

Thanks for the replies! :-) I was confused since Nexus seems to cost less than GE and wondered how they could be the same thing.

It's been extensively discussed in the Global Entry vs NEXUS thread (which, BTW, is only 12 pages long ;)):

Thank you!!

Another HUGE disadvantage is the time it takes to be conditionally approved. Global Entry usually takes less than a week. We have reports of NEXUS taking anywhere from 3 to 12 weeks. The approval time varies quite a bit. And we can safely assume that Canada is holding everything up because the requirements, in the eyes of CBP, for NEXUS and Global Entry are identical.

Plausible but not necessarily accurate. FT members with extended approval times called and was told CBP was the hold up at the beginning of the year.

NEXUS members from certain countries got suspended without reason at the beginning of the year by CBP. Shows that CBP is the more “cautious” agency.

The requirements are also not the same as GE is limited to citizens of certain countries and US LPR while NEXUS be available to anyone if they are Canadian LPR. US LPR have records held by US agencies (eg more accesible) but you can’t say the same for Canadian LPR having records held by US agencies. Furthermore GE requires passport. NEXUS does not.

We also don’t know if CBP approval process are indeed different. We also don’t know if they assign different teams to approval different TTP or if one team approvals all TTP. Are those teams staffed appropriately?

NEXUS approvals do tend to take longer than GE but lots of assumptions being made by saying CBSA is the hold up without knowing internal processes.

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Apologies if this was covered, as I couldn't find an answer...

I went through the process just before the GOES program switched over to the TTP website. My wife and son were conditionally approved and had interviews scheduled before the switch occurred. I have created the logins and linked the profiles from GOES, so all of the relevant NEXUS application and interview details are in the new TTP profiles.

However, when my wife went in for her interview, they asked for the conditional approval letter. I was able to view and print mine from the GOES site when I had my interview, but I can't find it anywhere on the TTP site. They didn't seem to have a big problem in that she didn't have it. My son's interview is tomorrow.

Do they just need this because they want the Membership Number/PASSID? If so, should I just print a copy of the interview summary which shows this info?

Thanks in advance.