US Global Entry Program for Australian citizens [from 2025]

[chitown_boy]

Just reporting my experience with my conditional approval last month and how global entry (and tsa pre-check) panned out. No queue on arrival to enrolment on arrival - a slight hiccup as the CBP agent questioned me twice on whether I’ve had any US customs infringements in the past. And I repeated said no as I was adamant I didn’t have any. She then said are you sure? i said no again and she said ok you have, for pork. And then it dawned on me that I ‘transited’ SFO back in 2016 and after going through secondary passport control they scanned by bags and found some pork jerky I had bought in singapore and confiscated it. I didn’t realise it was even recorded! Anyways, she said she would let this one go on this ocassion because it was so long ago but gave me a spiel about needing to declare things even with global entry. Was approved within the hour. But when flying out of JFK to MAD my KTN wasn’t registering as TSA PRE on my boarding pass. Re-entered JFK a few days later after a trip to Gran Canaria - used the app and breezed through CBP using global entry without needing to take out my passport. Subsequent flights TSA PRE worked, I suspect I needed to use Global Entry first before TSA PRE is activated?

 

[Katie]

It takes a few days for the system to register Pre Check after GE approval.
I flew a domestic flight the day after (~12 hrs after) approval and it wasn’t yet registered. Flew again 6 days later and TSA Pre was through.