This past Sunday, the GE kiosk functioned perfectly, but the Customs officer seemed really confused by the little receipt that I presented to him. He said, "what is this?" I said, "it's the GlobalEntry receipt." He asked for my passport, flipped through it, and asked me "what page did he stamp you on?"

I replied, "I didn't get a stamp because I didn't see an officer; I'm a GlobalEntry member and used the kiosk."

He flipped a little more and said, "oh...ahh....well....." and he compared the passport numbers on the passport and receipt, which matched. Finally, he said, "okay, you're all set." I glanced over at the other officer sitting 10 feet away, and he gave me a knowing grin and rolled his eyes. :)

Aug 24th, more airports
 

Global Entry Members,

Great news! Global Entry is expanding to an additional 13 locations. On August
24, 2009 Global Entry Kiosks will be available at the following 20 airports:

Boston-Logan International Airport (BOS)

Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)

Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport (DFW)

Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW)

Ft. Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)

George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston (IAH)

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)

Honolulu International Airport (HNL)

John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)

McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas (LAS)

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)

Miami International Airport (MIA)

Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)

Orlando International Airport (MCO)

Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)

San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

San Juan-Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)

Orlando-Sanford International Airport (SFB)

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport-SeaTac (SEA)

Washington-Dulles International Airport (IAD)

Go to www.globalentry.gov for more information.

Very good news. Have a trip in September coming back from China and with Global Entry active I should have enough time to take a shower in the United Arrivals area.

With most of my Int. trips going through SFO, this is great news.

I was going to post this update...good news for many. I'm happy to know DFW was added. As a mostly AA passenger GE subscriber, I was avoiding DFW.

Not to stray too far off topic, but the DFW layout of the US Citizen and Non-US Citizen cues for Passport Control are really lame!! Unless you "know" or look up towards the ceiling to see the US Flag over the US Citizen cue and Multi Nation flags for Non US, you could waste a bit of time or get quite confused.

Although this roll-out ends up being two days too late for my next trip, I've already signed up for the very first appointment at the Boston Logan enrollment center. I suspect it will be interesting becoming the local guinea pig...

Where was this? While I've only used the system once since getting GE my experience at ORD was flawless. The person just took the little receipt and waved us through.

I'd be willing to wager a pint of Sam Adams that it will be smoother than silk!! ;)

Dave

Why oh Why can they not expand GE to cover nexus enrolled canadians? I kinda want to move to the netherlands so I can qualify.

Hi matt,

I don't necessarily think it's about living in the Netherlands, but about holding a Dutch passport instead.

Being Dutch, not living in the Netherlands, I now have Global Entry.

Cheers,

GenevaFlyer

It was at JFK T8. My first thought was that because JFK has separate FIS areas in each terminal that accepts arriving international flights (from non-preclearance stations), perhaps for some reason the AA terminal sees fewer GE users than, say, T4 which is the main international terminal (IAT).

But then I thought about it some more and realized that because T8 is home to AA, while T4 has mostly non-US airlines, and because GE membership is restricted to US Citizens/Residents, one would think that a greater percentage of travelers arriving at T8 would eligible for GE than at T4. But, maybe not. Maybe I'm over-thinking it.


I agree about ORD. The Customs officers seem VERY used to GE there, probably because everyone feeds into the same FIS area for all arriving international flights.

Hooray for the new GE kiosks, expecially Boston. I used my Nexus card for the first time yesterday returning from Canada to the US by car. I suppose I could have used it entering Canada as well but didn't think about it.

GE is also free if you have SENTRI. I did SENTRI first a few years ago and when I applied for GE, it was free with the same expirations as my SENRTI.

Will be trying GE for the 1st time at DFW next week.

Can non-Dutch citizens with Dutch residency go about it too?

Excuse me for not yet reading the entire thread but I did search it.

Is Global Entry essentially the same as PortPass which was suspended after 9/11? (PortPass was the renamed version of INSPASS.)

I loved PortPass, even though the machine at AA JFK didn't often work. If you were at the machine they waived you to the first available inspector.