U.S. Global Entry Program | Over 9,000 Indians’ past checked in last 2 years

It allows members to use expedited lanes at U.S. airports and few other international airports

On the request of the U.S. authorities, Indian security agencies in the past two years checked the antecedents of more than 9,000 Indians who wanted to enrol for the paid Global Entry Program that allows members to use expedited lanes at the U.S. airports and few other international airports. From January to March last year, around the time when international air travel was suspended to stop the spread of COVID-19 in India, a background check was run on 2,720 Indians to see if they were eligible to avail the program. From April-December last year, when India went into lockdowns that eased gradually, as many as 2,394 applications were vetted by the Indian authorities, in all 5,114 in 2020. In the first quarter of 2021, as many as 428 applications were verified. In 2019, more than 4,000 applications were verified. It was not clear how many applications were denied.