Adam, check to see if your credit card pays for it.
Whenever I renew, I get a notice a week later that they credited me the cost for GE.
The ones that pay do it for one person every five years.
Will do. Thanks.
Any recent updates on how long routine renewals are taking? And, whether they are requiring in person interviews for those these days? Just submitted my renewal application today. I wasn’t required to do an in person interview for my last renewal 5 years ago.
My experience from 2024 was renewal was within 1 day online. No interview required.
I’m guessing maybe having a Real ID helped?
Mine was a week, no interview needed. I didn’t even realize it was up until Precheck didn’t work on a domestic flight.
I don’t think Real ID made a difference.
My wife’s took a long time, so long wee forgot we had a renewal pending. I think renewals were much quicker in 2024. Good luck.
Thanks all!
For our last renewal, my wife got her’s in a day, but mine took about a month which seemed odd. She wasn’t born in the US, so if anything, I would have thought it would have been the other way around. Both without a new interview.
The website now seemed to be pushing people to consider only Pre-Check if they aren’t frequent international travelers. I thought they were originally encouraging as many people as possible to get GE. That allows a full background check and potentially uses less resources and speeds things up for everyone on re-entry.
Mine was 72 hours in March. No interview required.
And now the Global Entry card is accepted in lieu of a Real ID, so those of us who haven’t gotten one yet don’t have to carry a passport for domestic flights.
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Landed in Miami last week. It took about 10 seconds to get to the booth where the customs dude was waving us through.
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I’m looking at it now, after just traveling to and from Spain, and dealing with both customs on the entry, and re-check for our continuing domestic flight. Pre-check is fine for getting on a place, but does you no good coming back through passport control. Since we plan on traveling internationally a bit more, I’m going for GE. Looks like the interview process is mainly through your first re-entry.
Alan, I would advise you to do as you stated - get GE.
Having said that, for all of our international travel over the past 18-24 months we’ve also been using the Mobile Passport Control. an app made by US Customs/Immigration. We load up both it and GE on arrival and use whichever line is shorter. You don’t need GE to use MPC. Both have been very fast and just a wave through basically for Immigration. We haven’t had anything to declare, so Customs after Immigration has been a non-event.
Last trip in March from CDG using GE at DFW, the Immigration officer already knew our names (via the video face ID) before we got to the booth and was calling out to us by name to keep walking and not even stop. MPC has just required us to stop for less than a minute. Both are great.
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I had, and used MP when it first came out, but haven’t travelled enough since then to test it. Should have used it in Charlotte yesterday.
Doesn’t Mobile Passport depend on getting a good WiFi connection upon landing?
I have it as a backup. But GE has been not even a minute wait lately.
Why only wifi? Most airports have 5G until you get on the tarmac.
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Yes, any connection. But IIRC, the suggestion is to do it ASAP upon landing (i.e., on tarmac). If you do it after deplaning, you’ll be further back in the line (but maybe that doesn’t matter).