Beginning Monday, March 20, NEXUS candidates can e book interviews at most main Canadian airports.
The enrollment facilities have been closed since March 2020 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, however have been prolonged as a result of a diplomatic dispute over authorized protections for US customs officers.
This resulted in a big backlog of functions.
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NEXUS enrollment facilities will reopen on the following airports and dates:
March 27
Halifax Stanfield Worldwide Airport (YHZ)
Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson Worldwide Airport (YWG)
April 3
Vancouver Worldwide Airport (YVR)
April 12
Calgary Worldwide Airport (YYC)
Edmonton Worldwide Airport (YEG)
April 17
Montreal-Trudeau Worldwide Airport (YUL)
April 24
Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport (YYZ)
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier Worldwide Airport (YOW)
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Vacationers who need the streamlined border crossing advantages of a Nexus card should go in for an enrollment middle interview carried out by each Canadian and US officers earlier than one is granted. 1000’s of vacationers request NEXUS membership every month, CBSA stated in a information launch.
The 13 Canadian entry facilities have been closed for a couple of 12 months due to a dispute over authorized protections for US customs officers, together with the authority to hold a gun whereas on obligation.
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The US reopened its 13 Nexus facilities in April to permit that joint upkeep course of to proceed as regular. However CBP insisted that Canada give its brokers the identical authorized protections they take pleasure in on U.S. soil earlier than returning to Canadian Nexus facilities, which Ottawa refused to entertain.
As an answer, Canada and the US have begun permitting Canadian candidates to be interviewed collectively at US land border crossings to start addressing a backlog that has reached as excessive as 350,000 candidates by early fall 2022.
CBSA stated that since October 1, 2022, CBSA and CBP have accomplished greater than 300,000 NEXUS entries, lowering the online backlog of candidates by roughly 130,000 from its summer time 2022 peak.
On the US facet, the place enrollment facilities have been open since April 2022, the 16-month wait between submitting an utility and receiving a Nexus card was right down to between 12 and 14 months from January 2023.
CBSA says the brand new entry choice for air vacationers has two steps:
- Canadian airport entry facilities will likely be staffed with CBSA officers who will full the Canadian portion of the NEXUS interview;
- The US interviews are accomplished by Customs and Border Safety (CBP) at Canadian airport preclearance areas when candidates depart Canada to fly to the US
Worldwide airports in Canada that supply pre-clearance companies embody these in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa and Winnipeg, in addition to Pearson Worldwide Airport in Toronto.
Conditionally accredited NEXUS candidates and renewal members who require an interview will be capable to e book the Canadian portion of their interview at certainly one of these airports by means of the Trusted Traveler Program scheduler as interview instances turn out to be accessible.
Candidates have three choices for his or her NEXUS interviews:
- A joint US-Canada interview at a land registration middle (14 areas) within the US
- A shared interview at a Canadian land registration middle (two areas) adopted by an interview at a US land registration middle
- A two-step interview at a Canadian airport check-in middle (eight areas), adopted by an interview at a US pre-clearance location in a Canadian airport.
Current members who renew their membership earlier than the expiration date can have it prolonged for as much as 5 years to permit for the scheduling and completion of interviews, as required.
After being conditionally accredited for NEXUS, candidates have as much as 5 years to finish each the US and Canadian interviews.
With recordsdata from The Canadian Press and Sean Boynton,
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