TSA PreCheck Center

I boldly attempted a walk-​in appointment attempt on a Friday at 11am.
Mentally I was prepared to wait 3 – 4 hours, I was ready. I brought my Kindle and a copy of The Martian. Bring it on inefficient bureaucracy!
I was in and out in 45 minutes.
This isn’t a government building. It’s this shared workspace for several businesses and you wait in this lobby /​kitchen space. The actual TSA pre check room is just one small room near the corner of the waiting area. Highly recommend you update your status if you can — worth not waiting in an airport.

Yes, you’ll be amazed. This totally cool shared office space, fit for young entrepreneurs and millennial freelancers, includes the small office for the TSA PreCheck Center. It’s sleek, quiet, clean, equipped with a lovely kitchen area (offering free espresso) and computer pods. I signed in for an 11AM appt. There were only two people ahead of me and one or two behind me, seated at modernist chairs in the waiting area. Everyone asks the same question: «Is this really the TSA office».
I was shortly escorted into the office by a young woman for a quick series of questions, a fingerprint scan, the scan of my passport, and a swipe of my credit card for $ 85. I was out by around 11:15. You’ll wish every gov. office was like this one.
This place is so nice, you’d imagine that it’s the expensive VIP alternative to the «regular» office. But no, this is for the hoi polloi.

You will be amazed. This is a posh office, it is nothing like the DMV. Once you input your information into the website, you are told that there is no reservation availability for 145 days at this location and that walkin is the only acceptable method at this time. But based on my recent visit, I don’t think they take reservations at all. You enter the building on Cadman Plaza and the front desk office staff know nothing about this place. Kindly remind them that it is on the 12^th floor, suite 12 001. In fact, it is the only office on the floor. You sign in the book (only 1 other person signed in that afternoon) and you head down the hall to the last elevator bank on the right. Take the elevator to the 12^th floor, once you’re out of the elevator go to the glass doors there are no other offices and conveniently there are no signs to tell you where to go. You’ll be very confused because it does not look like some of your bureaucratic government office. There are no long lines, dirty Formica floors or stained ceiling tiles with dim lighting, there is fancy furniture even a coffee table with a coffee table book and helpful staff that will greet you almost immediately. Once an attendant comes out to get you, you are escored quickly into a room adorned with aeronautical artwork. After a few short questions (namely the same ones you already answered on the computer) you give your payment of $ 85 one of the four main credit cards are accepted cashiers check too, and then you fingerprint. No need to take a photo with you, they will not need to take a photo anyway. Now you are done. that’s it! Go home and wait 7 to 21 days before you are given in the mail your acceptance or denial.
bottom line: I did a walk in here and it is 100% opposite the DMV. Clean friendly quick courteous painless I am absolutely surprised how flawless this was, you will be too.