A new Global Entry mobile enrolment event at the U.S. Embassy in London is bookable

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• goap says:

  27 Mar27 March 05:39

  You can bring you phone/tablet into US Embassy these days

  https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/niv-london/

  • Lux says:

    27 Mar27 March 05:49

    You beat me to it! It’s been this way for a couple of years.

    • Rob says:

      27 Mar27 March 07:25

      Fixed, thanks.

• Anna says:

  27 Mar27 March 07:22

  I was charged one such resort fee last year. It wasn’t mentioned on Hotels.con when I booked so I challenged them. Initially they said they couldn’t be expected to know about every charge levied by a hotel, but I emailed the ASA and subsequently Hotels.com admitted error and refunded the charge.

  • Anna says:

    27 Mar27 March 07:22

    Sorry, Hotels.con was a genuinely typo ????

• Lewis says:

  27 Mar27 March 07:36

  FYI, I renewed my Global Entry as a UK citizen a couple of weeks ago (I was one of the lucky few with a special code in 2013). £42 to UK Border Force for a code, $100 for the renewal, took three weeks and no need for another interview.

  I love GE.

  • Katy says:

    27 Mar27 March 07:46

    Do you know if UK citizens can access TSA Pre check?

    • paulm says:

      27 Mar27 March 07:54

      Yes it comes with global entry. Did it last year at the embassy in London, best money I ever spent!

    • Lux says:

      28 Mar28 March 05:11

      But only if your airline supports it. You can guess which one, name begins with B and A, doesn’t (last time I checked).

  • Mikee says:

    27 Mar27 March 08:15

    I also joined GE in 2013….best money I ever spent on travel. Has saved me hours and hours at immigration. I actually received a $50 credit from Amex as I had a UK Platinum card at the time and pointed out that the US version gave a $100 credit towards the application fee and they agreed to also give me credit as a one-off (if you don’t ask, you don’t get!).
    I have also found TSA Pre-check useful too (comes with GE)

    • Nicola Potts says:

      27 Mar27 March 10:59

      I was reading up on global entry the other night and unless I have read it all wrong or misunderstood, according to the website you can do “enrolment on arrival” now: apparently you receive approval upfront via the usual process but you don’t have to book an interview, you go to the pre-designated area upon arrival at the airport (list on the site of applicable airports) and voila you have the interview, fingerprints etc.

      I would be interested to see if anyone has done this yet – or have I completely misread it

      • gastrocnemius says:

        27 Mar27 March 20:31

        I did this on Saturday, at SFO

        You bypass the immigration lines to do it as well!

• MissGeekChic says:

  27 Mar27 March 08:19

  I applied for GE about 3 weeks ago but still waiting for my application to be processes before I can book an interview. Any ideas how long the processing takes? Thanks.

• Brian says:

  27 Mar27 March 09:03

  Love the direct translation from German into English – ‘After this article in the Independent…’ – I assume Anika means ‘According to…’. :))

  • Rob says:

    27 Mar27 March 09:14

    ‘After’ is grammatically also correct I think ….

• Paul says:

  27 Mar27 March 09:04

  O/T: Amazingly, some avios earned via booking a Hilton hotel credited my avios.com account today – with no chasing required (not one email). Slightly shocked!

• Tabs says:

  27 Mar27 March 09:09

  What is the interview all about? What do you need to bring / what do they ask?

  • Rob says:

    27 Mar27 March 09:13

    We’re you involved in Nazi atrocities during 1938-1945 I guess 🙂 (Is that still on the form?)

    • John says:

      27 Mar27 March 09:38

      Nope, it’s been updated to ask if you have ever committed, or plan to commit, genocide (seriously).

      Apart from when they’ve been mandated to by Congress, I think they include these sort of questions so that they can add perjury charges, as part of any post-charge plea bargaining arrangements (see: Mueller v Trump administration officials).

  • paulm says:

    27 Mar27 March 09:29

    Only a few questions, why do you want it, how often will you use etc. They then just tell you how it works. By that time you have already given them your life history in the online application!

• James says:

  27 Mar27 March 09:30

  Do American Express platinum charge holders in the UK receive the same credit as the US amex platinum charge towards global entry?

  • Rob says:

    27 Mar27 March 09:37

    No

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