Update: Now I got just kicked out! Was accepted months ago! A third reason beyond Bo and Nancy:
“You do not meet the program eligibility requirements because you have listed the state of New York as your current residence. At this time, CBP is unable to verify certain information connected to your application.”
My husband & I applied for Global Entry late last summer 2019. I got okayed within a week. Bo, a naturalized citizen from Sweden, was pending. Today Bo got rejected, just a few days after Trump did a revenge number on NY b/c Trump has done many crimes here and NY is pursuing him. The reason given? Bo's "NYC address cannot be verified." He has NO OTHER address, has lived here for 40 years, has a NY Enhanced License w/address, along w/US passport, supporting documents, etc. Where else does he live? Obvious Trump dictated that ALL NYC naturalized citizens (and others - see below) get shafted. I posted this on FB and another NY friend said her application was removed from the site today (we get a number) and when she went online, the main information page page said it was an “Invalid Page.”
NYC ought to have tag on license plates if native born. TX has it and it’s a nice piece of local color.
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Just to be clear: native born means born in TX. It is not a US citizen thing. No credit if born elsewhere. That is how TX rolls.
@Michael Blazin
Texas lawmakers roll crazy.
NY should not be a sanctuary state and illegals should NOT be getting a driver license.
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Illegal is not a noun.
Contrary to what this article says, New Yorkers who are current members of Global Entry CANNOT renew their membership at this time. Just try to do it!
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@NY Gal - Does this have to do with "TSA-Pre" classification for security?
I was "TSA-Pre" all flights for quite a while, then it suddenly disappeared from my boarding passes at a trip to Tampa around Thanksgiving. I've made two more visits to Miami at Hannukah week (celebration of the lights never going out) and again end of January (celebration of the arrival of the 1099s and W-2s), and it seems permanently gone.
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@NY Gal The inability to renew an existing Global Entry card based on Trump's reasoning removes any rationale based on the "green law" fear of undocumented people getting drivers' licenses. The people renewing have been thoroughly vetted, and the policy as set by Trump will be struck down in the federal court.
Even using the least restrictive analysis, the law must be rationally related to a legitimate end. For renewals to be caught in this mess clearly offends this doctrine.
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You know, Freddie, I had been in the past asked to sit at emergency exits on several flights, perhaps because I looked as though I could be trusted to follow the instructions on how to open the doors; but on my last visit to Florida to visit an aunt, this autumn, both times I was patted down way too intimately for my liking. What on earth? For heaven's sake. Good grief. One becomes incoherent and can only exclaim.
Maybe they've read my anti-Trump posts in The New York Times comments section.
I always knew it could happen here.
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This is the first time I’m hearing that “New Yorkers seeking to renew their memberships have until the end of the year to do so.” All other news sources including prior NYT articles have said that renewals are also banned. If someone has already been conditionally approved, are they still eligible to complete their interview?
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Please refer to the NY Times Article February 10th 2020 "She Ran Over and Killed 2 Children. Should She Have Had a Car?"
With traffic deaths spiking, New York City is targeting those who accumulate red-light and speeding violations...
Should she have Global Entry/Nexus too? I think that says it all as to why it is imperative for the TSA to have access to DMV databases. It is to ascertain the risk an individual thru repetitive unlawful behavior may pose a risk. A "trusted traveler" is not one who flagrantly flaunts the law. Period.
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I am a naturalized citizen, with no criminal history, gainfully employed, previously enjoyed TSA precheck and living in PA for 10 years. My Global Entry application has been “in review” since November 4, 2019.
My American born husband and friends were approved within 48 hours of submitting the application. Who else is being targeted in this orange dragnet?
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@Angelica three months is not that long for this. You'll be approved if nothing is amiss. Good luck and you are luck to be in PA presently!! Maybe I'll move there as well!!
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Naturalized status has nothing to do with Global Entry. Citizens are citizens. The only thing that your husband and friends got in 48 hours was a notification that application was in progress. The interview proceeds after the background investigation. Approval follows the interview. 2-3 months is not unusual.
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The only thing you need to know is that this president probably has a lot more in mind to punish New York for being well, New York.
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@N. Smith
When he leaves office, I doubt that he'll get what appears to be a continuing exemption for complying with state and federal tax laws he's ignored.
Can you clarify the renewal status for people whose global entry membership expires within the next 10 months (mine expires in August 2020)?
The article states “Current members of the programs are not affected, and New Yorkers seeking to renew their memberships have until the end of the year to do so.” However, that seems to be inconsistent with other information that I’ve seen as well as the CPB release on 2/6/2020. For my own personal sake, I hope what you wrote is correct.
@Josh Uhl The information is wrong. The correct information is on the Global Entry website and if you don't believe what you read, try to renew your membership. As soon as you indicate you live in NY, it won't let you continue.
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"New Yorkers seeking to renew their memberships have until the end of the year to do so."
I don't believe this is true. The trusted travel website says "residents of the State of New York will no longer be eligible to apply for OR RENEW membership." (emphasis mine). Outstanding renewals like mine were canceled last week.
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Recalling that old Gran Landers spoof (was it Mad Magazine or Sick Magazine?):
"Is it OK to eat pizza with your fingers?"
"No! No! A thousand times no! You should eat your fingers separately."
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The article says that “New Yorkers seeking to renew their [Global Entry] memberships have until the end of the year to do so.” Is that really so? Days ago, most outlets insisted that renewals weren’t allowed. Can anyone clarify?
First of all, the lack of comments here is unsettling. (To those of us for whom this is a huge deal.) Anyway, the solution is quite simple. (If we take the politics out of it)
The solution is the DHS and DMV had/has a link already. For those of us who apply/re apply for GE on the DHS website, we simply check the box that says "Do you agree that DHS can access your DMV records?" That checked box will allow DHS to access only the DMV records of GE applicants. (To those of you who worry that somehow other records will be accessed, the DMV will have its own computer security- this is called technology protection). We get our GE, the DHS gets its security checks, and Cuomo and Di Blasio can say they are protecting others' rights. Win-win-problem-solved.
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In defense of my earlier comment that the only thing New Yorkers have to know about Enrollment in Global Entry is this president's tendency to seek out ways to punish the city because it stands in direct opposition to almost everything he stands for -- starting with our stance on immigration, immigrants and diversity.
And seeing as politics is never far removed from the equation, there's also the fact that Chuck Schumer and Jerrold Nadler were instrumental in his recent impeachment trial.
All in all, there's reason enough to think this wasn't an arbitrary decision on the behalf of a president who believes in retribution.
My point stands.
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If drivers from other countries are geting licenses, will they be able to read street signs?
I was once a passenger in a car driving down Central Park West. Towards Columbus Circle, there was a sign: "One-way traffic ahead. All vehicles must turn right." (I guess there was some kind of construction going on.) The driver spoke another language. He lived here and had a business here, but still used his license from elsewhere. Not only that, he was talking on his cell phone to his country at the time. Lucky for me, I was able to shout at him as traffic approached us head on: "Vous devez tourner a droite!" And he got out of the lane. Whew!
There are all kinds of road signs that need attention from drivers. What if the driver can't read them?
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Tourists from other countries rent vehicles in the US. There are far more likely to be unable to read sings than undocumented people who live in the US.
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Yes, AM, but tourists don't usually drive in New York City, with its cacophony of often contradictory signage. They might rent a car to get to Acadia National Park, and up there some signage is in French to accommodate Canadians.
It isn't a good idea to give people here illegally a driver's license. When I rented a car in Europe, I had to get an international driver's license from AAA. And now the City Council wants to pass a law allowing them to vote.
Good grief.
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lucky13,
It's a good thing he understood Spanish.
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As someone who grew up and continued to live in the city, everyone I know has always toasted their bagel. I am not sure where this whole PR campaign began that people are not supposed to toast their bagels.
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@NYC Local YES! i will not be bagel shamed for toasting
I was born and raised in NYC and have lived here most of my adult life. There is nothing wrong with toasting a bagel if that's your preference. Most people eat pizza with tbeir hands, but if you're in a nice restaurant it's not so weird to eat it with a knife and fork. The beauty of NYC is that people have been everywhere and done everything. They know that pizza is eaten with utensils in countries like Italy and France.
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How about adding this item to New York Today, given New York City's role as an international city with relatively excellent hospitals:
"Public health experts are also closely watching reserves of vital medical supplies and medications, many of which are made in China.
". . . And China is the dominant supplier of the raw ingredients needed for penicillin, ibuprofen and even aspirin — drugs taken daily by millions of Americans and dispensed routinely to hospital patients."
I've always worried that our life necessities here in the United States are being manufactured in a country whose quality control and living conditions are sub-par. At any time, car and truck parts, boiler, air conditioner, and elevator parts, rivets for our bridges, girders, wallboard, medical instruments, medications, military equipment and uniforms, toasters, telephones, wiring, and almost anything else you can name, can dry up.
What happens to our emergency services, our infrastructure, our cities' and our military's functionality then? If I've been fretting about this for a couple of dozen years, why isn't the government doing so?
Obviously: People are making money off cheap stuff from China. And most Americans are insatiable in their quest for cheap stuff and a lot of it.
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@B. - such excellent points. I'd never even thought about that, and now that you mentioned it, this is indispensable logic.
Are you a journalist? Or do you just make great efforts to be tuned in?
P.S. I'm that way in every little nook and cranny of pop culture, which I know sounds whiffy on the surface - but I feel really sets the course of what the country thinks, like the men letting themselves go I terms off being outrageous at Oscar dress-up for the first time (which men always did at the Grammys) - says something about gender-neutrality that benefit both men and women, that it's not a "women's thing" - like jobs like airline stewards are no longer "womens' work" and equalizes everyone by taking away those labels/
And on NYS and NYC politics I really follow the logic, but I'm totally lacking in any understanding of logic in how national politics works and worry if there is no logic there- and things like why the heck Iowa should matter so much just throws me into deeper sense there is no, logic to national politics, all is sense impression - where NYS and NYC has clear logic to the deBlasio and Cuomo sometimes-horror shows.
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@B. And your post has what do do with the Global Entry Program?
Tell Trump I want my money back for signing up, he can personally pony up. Even better tell him to keep his corrupt nose out of NY issues. We pay him no respect here, because he deserves NONE.
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There are other topics in New York Today besides the main topic. I offered yet another one, which I thought I'd made clear in my first sentence or two.
I am, of course, concerned about Donald Trump's penchant for petty vengeance; but I rarely fly, made the decision to rely on my passport when I do instead of getting a gussied-up federal driver's license, and so I chose to bring up a New York City topic we're not addressing: a shortage of medications and medical devices in our hospital-rich hometown.
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