Is Global Entry worthwhile?
Jun 24, 2011, 8:40 pm
#1952
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 8
You can go to any Global Entry Enrollment Center. No Appointment necessary. But your Passport will NOT work until it is registered in the Global Entry System, so try getting it registered before leaving the country. There is no additional fees to have this done. You may register as many passports as you like, with some limitations. If your a U.S. Citizen, you may register all the U.S. Passports you can get your hands on.
Jun 24, 2011, 8:42 pm
#1953
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 8
Besides, how will you get the cool sticker if you do it online.
Jun 24, 2011, 8:49 pm
#1954
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You can update the new pp info online. You do NOT need an appt. to have a new sticker put on--they will compare your actual pp with the updated info to see that they match.
Jun 24, 2011, 8:54 pm
#1955
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: MSP
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I also called the NEXUS enrollment center I got NEXUS at to verify that that was all I needed to do to continue using NEXUS and they said I was good to go.
Jun 24, 2011, 9:35 pm
#1956
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 8
I just changed my passport information online a few weeks ago, and stopped by ORD to get the sticker when I happened to be passing through. The sticker can be good to have, but it's not a necessity.
I also called the NEXUS enrollment center I got NEXUS at to verify that that was all I needed to do to continue using NEXUS and they said I was good to go.
I also called the NEXUS enrollment center I got NEXUS at to verify that that was all I needed to do to continue using NEXUS and they said I was good to go.
Without "scanning" it into the system, it will be hit or miss when you use the Kiosk. If the airline makes ANY error in the manifest, even a spacing error in your name, you could get the dreaded "X".
Say you last name is McCloud, but your Passport shows Mc Cloud, that's all it needs to cause an error.
If you never have an error, then great. But if I was depending on the machine working every time, I'd have it scanned.
NEXUS tell inaccurate Global Entry information all the time.
and on that note, not every Global Entry Enrollment Center gets it right either.
Jun 24, 2011, 11:12 pm
#1957
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 269
Showed up to my Global Entry appt 10 mins late after waiting 5 weeks for conditional online approval. When I told the agent my appointment time, the agent told me there's nothing he can do for me right now. And that was all he said. He just stared at me, waiting for me to leave. What customer service...
Jun 25, 2011, 12:43 am
#1958
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Showed up to my Global Entry appt 10 mins late after waiting 5 weeks for conditional online approval. When I told the agent my appointment time, the agent told me there's nothing he can do for me right now. And that was all he said. He just stared at me, waiting for me to leave. What customer service...
Jun 25, 2011, 10:50 am
#1961
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC Aeroplan - Elite Status. DL Skymiles - Regular Status
Posts: 509
Yes - that's my case as well. The CBP Nexus officer placed the sticker in my passport. Worked like a charm at IAH when I flew home from Mexico.
Jun 25, 2011, 10:28 pm
#1962
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: MA
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Changed my passport info on the GOES site... had to change the damn password as the passwords apparently expire after a time. The GOES password rules are a pain in the "arse". Letters, numbers, capitals, and symbols!
Jun 26, 2011, 10:31 pm
#1963
Join Date: Aug 1999
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Interesting... when I had my offical, they let me have it and my tourist... I now have 2 Dip and 2 Tourist, and there has been no problem registering all....
damn, I tried adding my Official Passport, back when I signed up (very early on when IAH was one of just three airports doing it) and they wouldn't let me add the government passport. I have asked again twice, once in the office, and once at a booth (got the X) and they said they couldn't do it. Oh well, IAH always lets me cut the line with non-GE family, so that's ok LOL...
Jun 27, 2011, 8:38 am
#1964
Join Date: May 2009
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Jun 27, 2011, 8:40 am
#1965
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Oddly, when I got the sticker, all the guy did was look at my old passport, the picture, and that I had the sticker already. Didn't confirm it was in the system or anything.