- Proposed Rate Hike For Global Entry And NEXUS, But With Kids Free! by Dans Deals. You’d think the reimbursements on credit cards would just be increased to $120 so this is good news if it happens.
- Tokyo Hotel Offering Free Rooms, You Just Have To Post A Photo To Social Media by VFTW.
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- Hertz: Rent A Car & Get $250 In Travel Credits
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- Rakuten Marketplace To Close On 9/15, Shopping Portal To Remain Open
- Walmart+ (Plus) To Launch On September 15, $98 Per Year
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You would think credit card companies would start including NEXUS as a benefit including/instead of global entry given it gives you easy access to TWO countries and is half the price. Seems like a win-win for everyone. you get better clearence and the banks don’t pay as much.
Another fuck up by DHS, NEXUS is supposed to work only on Global entry machines from Canada to US. But in reality, it works on any global entry machine. So NEXUS has full Global entry benefit with half price.
Colombia seems more capitalistic than the posers in the US. Let free market decide and all that. The posers in the US beg for money every time they can and strut around as self made men later.
According to discussion at that link, NEXUS already has had kids free. All for $50. So I don’t see how any of this is “good news” for NEXUS members, no matter how big their family. They wouldn’t get any extra benefits, just a much higher price.
Having said that, while the headline is that they’re trying to synchronize Global Entry, SENTRI, and NEXUS fees, if you read the actual proposal, you’ll see that NEXUS is not included (because they have to work with Canada on it), and it will be handled in a separate later proposal. So while they’d like to include NEXUS, the current proposal only covers synchronizing Global Entry and SENTRI fees. We don’t even know when the proposal for NEXUS changes will be made available.
If you have credit cards that cover Global Entry, then the increased cost would probably be a good thing for NEXUS members. For me NEXUS, fees were charged as “USCUSTOMS TRUSTEDTRAVELE INDIANAPOLIS IN”, which I assume is the same as Global Entry, so I’d expect to be able to get fee credits, whereas I am not able to get them now.
I think NEXUS is not included in the proposed regulation because it’s exempt from the Notice and Comment requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act. This is basically a requirement that they inform the public in advance of changes and allow them to send in comments before the change takes effect.
The Federal Register notice states: “Although CBP intends to harmonize the fee for the NEXUS, SENTRI, and Global Entry trusted traveler programs, this proposed rule only concerns changes to the fee for the SENTRI and Global Entry trusted traveler programs. Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1753(c), the fee setting of a joint U.S.-Canada project, such as the NEXUS program, is exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act. Accordingly, any changes to the NEXUS fee will be announced in a Federal Register notice.”
I assume this means that when the SENTRI and Global Entry fee changes are allowed to take effect, they can simply announce the NEXUS price changes in another Federal Register notice. The current notice doesn’t indicate that Canada needs to approve these fee changes. Canada in the past set their own fees of $50 CAD for paper NEXUS applications compared with $50 USD for electronic applications accepted by the US, but Canada does not accept paper applications anymore.
Footnote 27 is interesting and notes that 2/3 of the NEXUS entry fee goes to the US and 1/3 to Canada.
The joke will be on us when U.S. CBP hikes up rates and credit card issuers also hike up annual fees to cover the increased “reimbursement”.
No. The joke will be when the cards increase the fees in anticipation but global entry decides not to.