I made a mistake that almost cost my wife her Global Entry. Who knows? It still may have. Here’s the story of how we ran into trouble on an otherwise normal flight back to the US.
US Customs and Border Protection
US Customs Computers Had An “Outage” Tonight. What Does That Mean?
How exactly do you screen passengers when your processing systems are down? That’s what the US Customs and Border Protection folks did for a couple of hours this evening.
Wow! Customs And Border Protection Admits Mistake, Reinstates Global Entry
These are not the stories I expect from Customs and Border Protection folks. But, every once in a while things take
Should The Government Have To Play By The Rules While Protecting Us While We Fly?
What if you break a rule in an airport, except it’s not really a rule? What happens if they take away your Global Entry credentials for breaking the undocumented rule?
How Serious Are Those Customs/Global Entry Questions?
Anyone who’s traveled internationally has seen a customs declaration form at one time or another. For those of us who are US citizens and frequent travelers, we’ve seen tons of these, at least prior to becoming part of the Global Entry program. The questions asked as part of the Global Entry kiosk are essentially the same and something I’ve virtually always checked “no” to. A recent post on View From the Wing had me thinking about a recent time where one of those questions came back to bite me. The […]
