You’re 0 for 2 on this - no Trusted Traveler, no refund. We won’t know whether the agencies share that kind of information, because TSA did not respond to requests for comment on the matter.īesides the annoyance of not knowing whether the government is whispering about you behind your back, if Global Entry rejects you, you don’t get back your $100 application fee.
Her husband flew a few days later and he did get it. Since the ill-starred interview, the wife said she had failed to get PreCheck, and she wondered during our interview whether she is now on a list of some sort.
If I were a betting woman, I’d put my money on “incomplete information.” It’s unclear whether CBP knew the husband had been to Cuba and was just waiting for him to come clean or whether it was a lucky guess, but whatever it was, the agency got a twofer: He outed himself and took his wife down with him. CBP said it would look it up if the couple would provide their names and dates of birth. We don’t know for sure which of these tripped up this couple. You may not get Global Entry if you “provide false or incomplete information on the application have been convicted of any criminal offense or have pending criminal charges to include outstanding warrants have been found in violation of any Customs, Immigration or Agriculture regulations or laws in any country are subjects of an investigation by any federal, state, or local law enforcement agency are inadmissible to the United States under immigration regulation, including applicants with approved waivers of inadmissibility or parole documentation or cannot satisfy CBP of their low-risk status or meet other program requirements.” Would they ever be able to get Global Entry?Ĭustoms and Border Protection did say this in an email: The interview, the wife said, was immediately “terminated.”
She had asked Cuban authorities not to stamp her passport, but her husband’s passport got stamped.Īt the joint interview, the officer asked whether they had been to any other countries besides the ones they had listed, and the husband, whom she described as relentlessly honest, said that yes, they had been to Cuba. The couple in question made it to the interview process.
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