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NEXUS applications slow down to trickle

After starting with a flood, NEXUS applications have slowed to a trickle.
The Canadian processing center, which was reporting having received 30,000 applications at the end of July, said it’s now up to 32,776. “Sixty-six percent of them came in the first month and over 85 percent in the first two,” said Canada Customs representative Paula Shore.

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization service representative Garrison Courtney said 15,816 applications have made their way through Canadian processing and were in the NEXUS enrollment office at Pacific Highway port of entry. Of those, 12,999 were approved, 437 denied and 2362 pending.

“I couldn’t really answer that,” Courtney said when asked what may have contributed to NEXUS enrollment tailing off and there was no one available to comment on the dwindling popularity of the program.

He also did not know the status of a NEXUS review begun at the end of August, which was to look at hours of operation and procedures for denial.

“There’s no new information, really. We’re still looking at it,” he said. He also did not know when the review was expected to conclude.

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