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I have Global Entry. For $100, the time it took to fill out a detailed form (an hour), and a twenty minute interview at an international airport, I can skip the immigration and customs lines every time I land in the United States for five years. Plus getting Global Entry enrolls you in TSA Precheck, which saves time at security on all flights in the United States.
The $100 is a great price for all the time I’ve saved, and you can easily avoid the $100 fee. Both the Citi Prestige® Card and the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard® refund the $100 fee as a statement credit if you use the cards to pay for a Global Entry application. (This benefit can only be used once every five years.)
But if the $100 is prohibitive or you don’t have a card that refunds it or maybe you don’t live near an international airport, there is an app that looks like Global Entry Lite.
I just heard about Mobile Passport for the first time. It is basically an app that allows you to fill in the Customs form.
You fill out the form, submit it over the internet, and get a barcode that allows you to use a dedicated Mobile Passport line.
There are Mobile Passport lines at the following airports.
What I don’t understand is whether you also have a dedicated line at Immigration. In my experience, that line is usually longer, so skipping both lines would have more value than skipping the Customs line alone.
Here is a first hand account of using Mobile Passport.
Have you used Mobile Passport? What was your experience?
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