Global Entry

Global Entry is a program of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service that allows pre-approved, low-risk travelers to receive expedited clearance upon arrival into the United States through kiosks…

I’m a proponent of getting Global Entry even if you only travel internationally every couple of years. For just a few more dollars than TSA Precheck, you get the same…

Global Entry is a program offered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to help international travelers re-enter the USA more efficiently. From U.S. Customs & Border Protection: “…At airports, program…

Over the years, the queues for TSA PreCheck have quietly been getting longer and longer. That’s shouldn’t be a surprise – PreCheck is like THE WORST kept secret in how…

If you listen to frequent flyers, you’ll hear them say the same thing over and over again – “Get Global Entry,” and “Get TSA PreCheck!” As relatively frequent (6-8ish times…

If you have any chance of traveling internationally in the next 5 years, you should really consider getting Global Entry. From the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s website: Global Entry…

With more and more people traveling, depending on where in the U.S. you’re flying/driving/floating into or out of, the lines at the TSA checkpoint and/or customs/immigration can be ridiculously long…

When a good portion of the “travel”-related arms of the U.S. government shut down last March, they never really caught up. For example, U.S. passport processing offices began reopening in…

The Citi Prestige. No other credit card has gone back and forth between being amazingly valuable to almost worthless as many times as that one. For a long time, I…

When COVID was declared an international pandemic, most of us probably didn’t think that we’d still be here, almost a year later, waiting for our lives to be even remotely…