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The visa is the first hurdle, please report back to see how her Port of Entry clearance goes.

Yes if its all under one e-ticket and PNR you will be fine, bags will be checked all the way through to BKK. And you can also use the international transfer bus when arriving in Sydney.

June school holidays is usually packed with school groups, travellers, people heading home etc - it does check out

A normal AFP NPC costs $56 per application which is $280 over the 5 year span. The other costs would be most likely the GEP staff required to handle all of these background checks going forward including uplinking it to the US system.

The primary reason that I can think of is the continuous annual background checks for 5 years. All built into the cost.

They do need to implement a few more systems including the final cost recovery process which is rumoured to be around $300-$400, fixing any issues/increasing efficiency as per demonstrated in Stage 1 and then the gates will be opened up.

I had my nephew offer me a 'bot' that would automatically book reward flights as soon as 'U' inventory came through. Locally hosted on one of my old laptops, it had virtually all of my details including my name, DOB, FF number, FF login info, KTN, etc. and a prepaid debit card for the taxes of...

Its not quite completely "zero contact" you still need to present your ticket or submission to a CBP agent who may ask further questions, if you get the dreaded "X" ticket - a full secondary review which includes surrendering your phone for inspection or just check your details and process you...

Just a general note for all people who are following onto the US CEP Phase 2 implementation: The prerequisite of which being legislative changes to allow the continuous annual background check of AU GEP members and to allow "cost recovery" going forward. We are getting close to the final...

The 3+ months is often associated with domestic US citizen based applications as they have a team thats supposed to run state and federal background checks per applicant, given how nearly every major credit card offers Global Entry for free - theres massive wait times. International...

Received 'conditionally approved' status, son who had to use a manual application form has got word back from the GEP email address and is currently having his background check processed. For further clarification, in order to make up my 5 trips to the US - I did submit two i94s across my Irish...

To my knowledge, you will not be interviewed by Australian authorities. The information will be verified, processed, background check completed and given the green light to proceed to the next stage which will be obtaining the 'Conditionally Approved' status. When arriving into the US next...

For me it took a few hours.

You will obtain an email titled; Invitation to complete a background check application for the US Global Entry Program [SEC=OFFICIAL] Where you will create an account with the Australian Government and will be able to apply for the GEP Background Check, where you will also attach your i94 which...

Given how for US residents, to obtain 'Conditionally Approved' status takes months. I think regardless for us its going to be a looong long time. Was reading on another forum, someone waited 4 months to obtain Conditionally Approved status. Some people waited 3 weeks, others 3 months its all...

If you are referring to the incoming president, I dont think CBP changes to Global Entry to Australian passport holders will be quite on the agenda. Australia hasnt been in the scopes of his reform gun and I hope it remains that way, I think the 388bn in a singular deal alone is making him happy...

I would personally think that after 1000 applications detected it would stop users from applying from the CBP website. But probably not and the unlucky 1001st person will have their application cancelled and *hopefully* refunded or put on hold until Stage 2.

The verification is done on the Australian end, the CBP couldnt care less for how many times you have entered into the US as the prerequisite is handled on the Australian end. You will be asked to provide a screenshot of your i94 obtainable through the link provided and I would think that the...

The email will be; [email protected]

Will be interesting, there was a note after applying for CBP that in the event that you do not meet the criteria - the application will be halted until Stage 2 but yeah we will see.