Global Entry
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Anonymous
| Has anyone renewed their Global Entry lately? I submitted my application in very early January and it is still "under review." My husband applied for renewal almost a month after I did, and his was approved, no interview needed, in 48 hours. Wondering what others' experiences have been recently. |
Anonymous
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Renewed mine a few weeks ago, approved with no interview needed, like your husband, in less than 2 days.
Seems like you randomly got put into the "much longer review" group. Unfortunately it can be 6-12 months, and there isn't much way to tell anything in that time until you get conditionally approved again. Good news is you have a 24 month period now that your GE is still good for. |
Anonymous
| My wife and I both submitted our renewals months ago and they're still pending with no update. It does at least say "Due to a significant increase in application volume, we are extending the grace period to allow you continued full benefits while U.S. Customs and Border Protection is finalizing your renewal application." |
Anonymous
| I renewed early thiscyear, and it took just a few days. |
Anonymous
| Why do you need Global Entry? I think I waited around 5 min at customs at IAD coming back from Colombia a few weeks ago. |
Anonymous
And I waited for almost 2 hours coming back from Europe yesterday. I'm getting Global entry before my next trip. |
Anonymous
Not the norm at IAD at all. You were lucky |
Anonymous
| My renewal was 48 hrs |
Anonymous
| My renewal in December was same day, on a weekend morning, no interview needed. |
Anonymous
It seems to go one of two ways: super quick or super slow. Mine took over a year. I did send a reminder email at a year and it was processed about 6 weeks after that. The good thing was that Global Entry kept working in the meantime. It just made me wonder what was going on. |
Anonymous
Why?! |
Anonymous
Nobody knows. People have tried to figure out the patterns and there really are none. Sometimes a couple who go to the same countries get put in the separate buckets. A friend had 2 kids get the quick approval, the other took 3 months It's basically random what group you get put in, assuming you aren't already in a clearly high risk group. Seems like it's something like 70-75% get the quick approval, and 25-30% get put in the "approval maybe in months, sorry" |