About like this. The interviewer had worked at the same military base as I had, but not at the same time. This only came up because I mentioned that theoretically the U.S. governnment should already have my fingerprints on file as I had completed the process to get an identity card for the said military base. The form for the identity car was a dozen pages or more and I had to list all of my previous addressess.
I think Global Entry had fewer questions.
My parents recently did the on-line portion but it seems there won’t be a possibility to do the interview before their next international flight.
I had mine at the US Embassy in London - took longer getting into the building than it did for the interview. The guy asked the normal questions about convictions, past history etc, took fingerprints and photo, and asked why I wanted GE. The obvious answer is “to avoid the time taken to queue at immigration” since we’d allowed ourselves 3.5hrs to clear customs/immigration at LAX for an onward flight to Honolulu, and still had to run for the plane in the end.
Everything was fine, very simple and I’d got an email confirming approval of GE by the time I’d walked back to the pub and ordered a pint.
FWIW a family member who flew back from Europe Sunday didn’t have to wait long to clear customs. Compared to the 7-hour waits we were reading about in the news. So if you ever get caught out during the next pandemic, it’ll come in handy.
It was quick for me but my wife was hassled for almost an hour and came home in tears. Once, years ago, she had forgotten about an apple in her backpack, and the guy doing her interview shamed and threatened her.
