Speed up US entry with Mobile Passport Control | Coffee Break Ep96 | 3-10-26
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
For years, Nick has always used the free Mobile Passport Control app for speedy re-entry into the country instead of Global Entry. In today's episode, we'll talk about this free alternative to Global Entry.
(00:18) - Mobile passport control is super easy and free
(05:37) - Where can it be used
(06:30) - Global Entry has advantages, though
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.3 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less, pour your money back. |
| 0:22.8 | On today's coffee break, speed up U.S. entry with mobile passport control. |
| 0:28.7 | I have for years had global entry, and I've never had any interest in using the mobile passport control app to enter this country. |
| 0:39.0 | But I've known Nick has been using it for years. |
| 0:41.8 | He hasn't signed up for global entry yet, has been successfully using mobile passport control. |
| 0:47.3 | And, you know, it's one of those things that because I had global entry, I just never really looked at it. I had the |
| 0:55.3 | opportunity to look at it this past weekend to try it out. And it was actually pretty good. So we're |
| 1:00.3 | going to talk about the benefits, the pros and kinds of using mobile passport control. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah. So first of all, it can be a great alternative to global entry because it's free. It doesn't |
| 1:09.8 | cost anything. And so if you don't have a credit card that would reimburse the cost to global entry, this is a great alternative. It doesn't cost you anything. There's no interview required. That's been the main barrier for me in getting global entry. I don't live near an airport where you can do an interview and interview on arrival. Sounds nice. But when you're traveling with two young kids after a long |
| 1:27.8 | flight, I just don't want to bog down the reentry process with it. So I haven't bothered with |
| 1:31.8 | global entry because mobile passport control is free, doesn't require an interview. It's great |
| 1:36.7 | when you're traveling with a family or group where not everyone has global entry. We're often |
| 1:40.3 | traveling with other family members, too, that definitely aren't going to get global entry, and we can all use the same mobile passport lane at the airport. |
| 1:48.6 | So that's been excellent for us, too. |
| 1:50.6 | And unlike global entry, mobile passport control is up and running right now, right, Craig? |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.5 | So as we're recording this, the government had shut down global entry a few weeks ago, |
| 2:05.3 | and I was leaving for Australia two weeks ago as this show comes out. |
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