Global Entry: Set for the Next 5 Years
Nov. 2nd, 2022 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI had my interview for renewing Global Entry yesterday. After all the frustration with the process the past few weeks— seeing basically nothing available for weeks, then by chance finding an online interview the next day— the actual interview was so basic it was ridiculous. The interviewer asked me a bunch of simple questions that I already answered in my application: what's my address, what countries have I traveled to in the past 5 years, have I ever been convicted of a crime. It was complete in 5 minutes, and my renewal fully approved.
What a farce. Asking me these questions a second time, this time on a Zoom video chat, does nothing to validate the answers. The pointlessness of this interview just underscores what a farce this whole stupid process is. They should have just renewed me without putting me through the rigamarole of scheduling an interview they're woefully understaffed to provide. These interviews smack of government make-work— a bloated bureaucracy creating complex mandatory process to justify its overgrown staffing levels.
Oh, and the interviewer arrived almost 15 minutes late. That was penultimate frustration in the process, as the government policy around missing an interview is that it's basically your fault— and the punishment is having to start the process over from scratch. ...Not just starting the renewal from scratch, but having to reapply to the whole program as if you've never had GE before.
Well, at least it's done now for the next 5 years. And the interview could've been worse.... I could've had to fly 1,000 miles away for it!
What a farce. Asking me these questions a second time, this time on a Zoom video chat, does nothing to validate the answers. The pointlessness of this interview just underscores what a farce this whole stupid process is. They should have just renewed me without putting me through the rigamarole of scheduling an interview they're woefully understaffed to provide. These interviews smack of government make-work— a bloated bureaucracy creating complex mandatory process to justify its overgrown staffing levels.
Oh, and the interviewer arrived almost 15 minutes late. That was penultimate frustration in the process, as the government policy around missing an interview is that it's basically your fault— and the punishment is having to start the process over from scratch. ...Not just starting the renewal from scratch, but having to reapply to the whole program as if you've never had GE before.
Well, at least it's done now for the next 5 years. And the interview could've been worse.... I could've had to fly 1,000 miles away for it!
