In my family, three adults applied for Global Entry in 2024 and two minors applied in 2025. For the adults, conditional approval came in one day, two days, and five months. The two minors received conditional approval after seven months and three months. Adult One got his application conditionally approved the next day. I think it is possible the US government finds him less suspicious because he has a security clearance. He did his interview on the way into the US and his card arrived in the mail not long after. Adult Two got his application conditionally approved in two…
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In 2023, three members of my family had to get our US passports. The news claimed that passports were taking much longer than usual because of renewed interest in travel post-pandemic. The official website https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/processing-times.html let us know that there were indeed longer processing times: For my family, the time to receive the new passport from mail-in date ranged from 3 weeks (Tremendously quick, considering it was normal service!) to 11 weeks. The one that took 11 weeks of wait time was the last one, so we were getting a bit concerned given the others were so quick! Renewal of…