mine and our kids was renewed in days, my wife's has been pending for more than six months.Apparently the renewal program is still using their random number generator on applications.
We recently renewed our NEXUS enrollment (actually our second renewal). Mine was approved within a few days, and hers was just renewed after over three months. I really wonder how the system works.
Your wife and mine must be hanging around with some shady characters.
Right, Global Entry includes the trusted traveler program. My Global Entry pass ID is my KTN. Did yours change by any chance?
I don't know what a KTN is. But the physical pass seems to be obsolete anyway. When we got home from Japan last month they just had a facial recognition gadget. No fussing with passport or fingerprints. Just look at the machine until it makes a happy noise and burps out a piece of paper. Very slick.
Sorry to be a dunce but do I contact my House Rep or Senator?
According to the TSA web site, Global Entry includes pre-check privileges. No need to deal with pre-check separately if you have good Global Entry status.
House.gov or Senate.gov. plug in your zip to find your rep. Then click on their picture to find the contact info.
I don't think it matters. All of them have staff members whose sole function is to help people navigate the federal bureaucracy and connect them with someone who both knows what they're doing and will answer the phone in a given agency.
Get the My TSA app, it allows you to skip the lines but you need to use your phone after the plan lands to enter your flight info
Thanks I used Mobile Passport Control for years but lately the lines were closed for lack of personal to man them especially DFW.
When we returned from Japan a couple of months ago, there were no forms or apps involved. The Global Entry kiosk simply took a picture of our faces and spit out a piece of paper that we handed to the officer when we went through the gate.
And in the next phase they're doing away with the paper slip. On a recent return to the US, we stood in front of the kiosk while it did its facial recognition thing for a couple of seconds and then lit up a green light. When we reached the agent's booth he waved us right through, with nothing but a "Welcome home, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo."
That was our experience returning to SAN last weekend. We don't have very many international flights, so I was surprised that they had already upgraded to newer Global Entry kiosks here. DH was trying to figure out what to do with his passport until I pointed out that the green light that says "Completed, proceed to agent" was already on.
