Posted: 6/4/2017 9:16:19 PM EDT
| School me on the differences between both and whether or not to get one or the other? |
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School me on the differences between both and whether or not to get one or the other? ETA you asked for schooling - Pre-Check lets you use the quicker security line, you don't have to take off your shoes, and go through a metal detector instead of the full body scan. Usually significantly faster than regular-old security. Global Entry provides expedited customs and automated re-entry when returning from overseas flights, and includes pre-check automatically. Need to go in and complete an interview and some more checks for GE, and it's slightly more expensive than standalone pre-check. |
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Global Entry. Just do it. You get tsa pre check domestically and get to breeze through customs in the way back from international trips with Global Entry.
However, Global Entry is worthless if you travel with others/family and they don't have it. Kids up until age 12 get through on your global entry. After that, they need their own. |
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I will tell you straight up to not bother applying for Global Entry if you ever had a recorded incident in the past from Customs of Foreign reentry no matter how trivial or minor. They will take your money and flat out deny you. |
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did they find coke condoms in your popper? Now back to your dickhead programming. |
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GE isn't much of a benefit outbound. In my experience, you won't get PreCheck if the final destination is overseas (only if domestic). If someone has a differing experience I'd like to know about it.
Inbound is where GE shines. You get to skip right past the long lines and buzz through. That can save literally 90 minutes or more coming into LAX and other ports of entry. You speed through immigration, then you speed through customs. The catch is that you'll get through immigration so fast you still end up waiting 30+ minutes for your luggage before proceeding to customs. The hard part about GE is that you have to submit a lot of paperwork, then schedule a face-to-face meeting ahead of time at a major port of entry; for those from small towns that means a trip to a big port, perhaps for the sole purpose of a 30 minute meeting. Also, GE does not include Nexus, so if you go to Kanada via ground GE doesn't help, though they say that will change. Still, if you do one international trip a year it's worth it. |
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Even if you don't plan to travel internationally, get Global Entry.
I read that TSA is planning on scaling back both PreCheck and Global Entry, so get it now. If you get GE now, they can't prevent you from getting it later. I just came into the US for the first time with my Global Entry. It was easily 10 times faster getting back into the US with it. |
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GE isn't much of a benefit outbound. In my experience, you won't get PreCheck if the final destination is overseas (only if domestic). If someone has a differing experience I'd like to know about it. I will be different than everyone else. Get neither. If you can spare the time to get up to Canada and think you can pass a Canada check also get Nexus. Here are the two centeres in NY All the same benefits as Global Entry and Precheck but its only 50 bucks. Yes you give more info to the Feds and Goose/Moose Feds but still cheaper. |