I also have a card, but you don’t need it. You just need to know the number. It is tied to your passport.
If you happen to live near the Canadian border, you can get the Canadian Nexus card for quick border crossing, and it gives you US Global Entry and Precheck. Two interviews in the same appointment (one US and one Canadian). Long wait for an appointment in Seattle, but pretty quick at Blaine. Well worth the trip!
Gads–we got one but have never carried it with us. They have a machine that takes your fingerprints and that is it.
Bumping this today because of this incredible story about a man being detained by customs. A man who is a US citizen, who had Global Entry, and they demanded he hand over his cellphone and unlock it so they could check it. His phone is actually owned by NASA and shouldn’t have been accessed by anyone outside his agency.
He was never given a reason. Hopefully Global Entry works better for most people!
That is very troubling. I expect things may worsen before they improve. 
Yes. And strange because doesn’t Homeland Security do the Global Entry interviews? Are they the same agency as Customs and Border Control? If not, they should surely be sharing information well enough that Global Entry is supported and not questioned.
From the Global Entry section of the cbp.gov website -
There are a few reasons why the CBP Officer could have referred this guy for a secondary inspection. Having a global entry card doesn’t exempt anyone from inspection on entering the country. (I’m retired Customs so I know how it all works).
By the way, CBP stands for Customs and Border Protection, not Patrol, not Control. Even the reporter in the linked article got it wrong. (Sorry, this is a pet peeve!) And yes, CBP is one of seven agencies in the Department of Homeland Security. The others are USCIS (US Citizenship & Immigration Services), ICE (US Immigration & Customs Enforcement), US Coast Guard, FEMA, TSA and Secret Service.
There’s some troubling 1st and 4th amendment implications with the broad mandate CBP officers have in searching devices/social network media of anyone…especially citizens within 100 miles of the border…including electronic/social media devices without having probable cause/warrant for the search.
Especially when those devices are owned by the individual’s employer such as NASA in this case or attempted to do so with a journalist’s device which was the property of the WSJ in this case:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/media/wall-street-journal-reporter-phone-feds/
I wouldn’t be surprised if many Americans got the Global Entry pass in the mistaken belief it would exempt them from CBP detainings/extensive searches.
My daughter just returned through LAX and although she had downloaded the Mobile Passport app, she was told they don’t use that at LAX. I’m wondering if it’s not being used anywhere anymore since the recent changes.
She didn’t have time to have a Global Entry interview before she left and H and I had seen people breezing through a Mobile Passport line at Dulles last fall so we thought it would help her.