How long is the wait time from submitting the application to being cleared for an interview?
What kinds of questions?
We submitted the applications Sept 1st 2012
Conditional approval the 2nd week of september.
And the 1st available interview time was January 16th 2013!
Its a long wait!!!!!
When we went in January they looked at the next availabe appointments and they were already into June 2013. They are so busy and backlogged!
we met with the Canadian Customs officer first. They went over the program. Do's & Donts and how it all works.
Then we did the Retina scan
Then we met the US customs officer. Ours had zero sense of humour.
They were the one that asked all the questions. They do the finger prints. He was cranky when I didn't have my fingers straight enough on the scanner.
Then they take your picture with a webcam...very unflattering picture!
They ask about previous vacations..why you went etc. He wasn't impressed that I went to Cuba and grilled me as to my "business" there! I guess they don't like Canadians going to Cuba!
Questions about criminal history, if you have any tattoo's... at one point he asked if our 12 yr old wanted to leave the room cause he was going to ask personnal questions. Just if we've ever been arrested...etc.
Since its technically as US program..they are the ones who ask the most questions.