I guess I'm just not that much of a good samaritan!

I was walking away when she was complaining about it to her fellow crewmembers and it was six in the morning. My priority was getting home for a nap before work today! :eek:

I'm usually a helpful, friendly fellow, but I guess not at 6am after an 11-hour flight.

Regarding the conditional approval turnaround time, I just received my conditional approval letter after having applied one week ago. I am a US citizen living outside the US.

Conditional Approval Time
 

My wife was approved in seven days, including weekends (November 4 application and November 11 approval). I applied the same day and am still waiting. :confused: Guess she's less suspicious than me!

I just applied on Sunday and was conditionally approved today (4 days). I thought it would take a lot longer as I had a ton of entries in the "countries visited" field.

Global Entry ORD
 

I am scheduled for my GE interview next month. Can anyone give me information about getting from terminal 1 to the enrollment center in terminal 5? Thanks!

I took 9 days for my application to go from pending to conditional approval. Maybe it took that long because I applied on Friday afternoon.

3 days later I was passing though JFK and decided to pop over to terminal 4 to see if I could get an impromptu interview. I did and their appointment book was wide open. The process only took about 20 mins to complete the interview/demo.

Now I am looking forward to skipping the long immigration lines at ATL, IAD and ORD.

I used Global Entry for the first time on Sunday evening at EWR.

It was absolutely fantastic.

There wasn't much of a line at immigration to begin with, but it was really still nice to speed through immigration and customs and be on my way.

Applying and getting approved was quick and straightforward, as was using the system.

What a great program!

If I had the money to travel more, I'd be getting that before anything else.

One week ago I arrived mid-morning at LAX--TBIT. Maneuvered through a queue of astonished foreign crew members to get through to the GE kiosks. Through in 2 minutes. ^ Very busy immigration queues even for US citizens so saved about 20-30 minutes there. Waited for bag about 15 minutes then it got really fun for Customs. Every line open with CBP officer, but I kid you not, there must have been about 200-300 people in each of 3-4 lines. Snaking everywhere. Complete nightmare. I pulled my bag over to the far left where the GE line was, only to find access completely blocked by a very long solid line. Fortunately, a CBP roving officer popped through it and I asked her "Isn't the Global Entry line around here?" She said "Hey just come through here (parting the assembled queue like the Red Sea) and got me to the outside near the exit, sending me up to an officer just standing near the front, who checked passport and my (non-X'd) receipt, then out of there pronto. ^^ Saved me at least an hour at the Customs queues--I've never seen queues that long at LAX before, nor at any other airport, even JFK.

Of course, I could feel the eyes of hundreds of wrathful waiting people on my back, trying to figure out why I got "special" privileges. :D

Good reason to not go near LAX, I guess. Or learn what the ebb and flow of business is.

Anybody who does a lot of international arriving into LAX would be well-advised to get into Global Entry program if possible.

I agree with this!

Seems a reasonable adaptation. If you MUST go through a particular airport. Wouldnt be so necessary with the airports I've experienced.

Exactly why I am applying for GE. Every time I arrive there it is a madhouse. Sometime you can't tell where the lines start and stop, as described in the post above.

I need to see you CBP sticker (after I cleared kiosk!)
 

I already had NEXUS when I applied for GE. The 'interview' was a formality and they did not give me a sticker.

I have used GE numerous times without a hitch. However, a couple trips ago I was in ATL at the right time, so I stopped by and got the sticker because I had read that I needed it if the kiosks were ever down.

So yesterday I land in ORD. Use the kiosk, clear immigration. No checked luggage, so I sail right through to the customs line. I hand the clerk my passport and card. He looks at my passport and says "I don't see your CBP sticker."

I finally put my passport in a clear plastic holder because it was getting covered with baggage claim tickets and those sticky little 'cleared' security stickers that leave a sticky residue behind when you remove them. Unfortunately, immigration at ATL put the CBP sticker on the passport itself and it was obscured by the security stickers on the plastic holder.

The point is, I had already gotten my ticket and cleared immigration. I wasn't even in an expedited GE customs line I've seen at some airports. But he wasn't going to let me pass until I produced the CBP sticker. I guess if I hadn't had it, I would have had to fill out the I-94.

:rolleyes: With thought processes like these, this guy should be working for TSA, not Customs.