Is Global Entry worthwhile?
May 9, 2011, 7:36 am
#1801
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After reading some recent posts in this thread, I rechecked when my GE expires, it expires on my birthday in Nov. of 2014--will they send me a notification close to that date?--I would hate to try using a kiosk and find I'm locked out.
May 9, 2011, 3:03 pm
#1802
Join Date: Aug 2008
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May 9, 2011, 3:26 pm
#1803
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FS-Mom applied on 4/15, and was just approved on 5/6. I've noticed GE being advertised in airline magazines, websites, Amex plat cardholders. I would bet that they are a bit backed up with applications.
May 10, 2011, 11:00 am
#1805
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: YQR
Programs: NEXUS; alas, no status anymore.
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NEXUS user who got automatically entered into GE, not that it matters.
May 10, 2011, 11:43 am
#1806
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Couldn't agree more. The pessimist in me wants to think that it's only a matter of time until some idiot figures a way to scam the system and gets the whole thing shut down or to use UA-lingo "enhanced" in a way that eliminates all the benefit.
May 10, 2011, 11:56 am
#1807
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Their trusted traveler program should mirror the CBP, but I'm sure they will screw it up in its entirety and make life h#ll for everyone involved. (especially when they continue to lose the data they have taken both voluntarily and involuntarily through the airlines, etc)
May 10, 2011, 3:15 pm
#1808
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While certainly TSA could develop a better program, I don't think the direct comparison is quite so obvious. For one thing, you may not see an agent when using GE, but they see you, as do the drug sniffing dogs and the computers that track suspicious overseas activity. If you became a problem traveler after being accepted in the program, there are plenty of ways to stop you upon entry.
May 10, 2011, 3:16 pm
#1809
Join Date: May 2009
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I doubt it will be a "scam" or hack so much as some audit shows that ICE is missing a lot of smuggling.
May 10, 2011, 3:40 pm
#1810
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While certainly TSA could develop a better program, I don't think the direct comparison is quite so obvious. For one thing, you may not see an agent when using GE, but they see you, as do the drug sniffing dogs and the computers that track suspicious overseas activity. If you became a problem traveler after being accepted in the program, there are plenty of ways to stop you upon entry.
May 10, 2011, 4:01 pm
#1811
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Here is a government run program where people are trusted and vetted, so that they can be admitted into the country without even talking or seeing an agent, yet the TSA wants to molest you to get on a plane to travel within the country. Stupidity at work.
Their trusted traveler program should mirror the CBP, but I'm sure they will screw it up in its entirety and make life h#ll for everyone involved. (especially when they continue to lose the data they have taken both voluntarily and involuntarily through the airlines, etc)
Their trusted traveler program should mirror the CBP, but I'm sure they will screw it up in its entirety and make life h#ll for everyone involved. (especially when they continue to lose the data they have taken both voluntarily and involuntarily through the airlines, etc)
If somebody gets thru GE (or "turns bad" after acceptance) what is the worse that happens? -- some smuggling goes on. Not a good thing, but not the end of the world. And if some OD's on some drugs smuggled in, it's not likely that somebody points a finger at GE as the "culprit."
What happens if the same thing happens to some future TSA "Trusted Traveller" program -- planes get hijacked/blown up/people die.
I think the most you'll see is something like Clear where you get a shortened line and that is about it.
May 11, 2011, 2:54 am
#1812
Join Date: Mar 2011
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I think the most you'll see is something like Clear where you get a shortened line and that is about it.
May 11, 2011, 11:14 am
#1813
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May 12, 2011, 6:58 pm
#1815
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Have a new passport and went online to change the number. It immediately found me and put in the dates so ...
do I have to do anything else? Do I need that little CPB sticker in the back that no one's ever looked at?
Since you can't access the list of enrollment centers unless you have an open application I can't find out where to go to get the sticker anyway.
Feeback appreciated
do I have to do anything else? Do I need that little CPB sticker in the back that no one's ever looked at?
Since you can't access the list of enrollment centers unless you have an open application I can't find out where to go to get the sticker anyway.
Feeback appreciated