TSA Precheck

Terminal 2 Tsa per check I was randomly selected for additionally security no problem however the only person available was busy with another women. I kindly asked if there was another person to help me and she was very rude and said no you will have to wait. May I remind you that I pay your salary and her and the X-​ray lady were very rude laughing at me. She should be fired from her 15 an hr job. Disrespectful and rude.

This is a review and some good info about TSA Pre check and the Global Entry program.
If you’ve ever wondered how to get into the TA Precheck program, it’s not that difficult but it is bureaucratic, costs some money, and you must be verified in person by Dept Homeland Security officials at a few select offices (mostly by airports).
Google TSA Precheck or Global Entry and you’lleasy be able to find the link to apply. As I recall there’s a $ 100 application fee and you have to have certain documents in order. If you’re a Naturalized citizen, you have to have that doc ready too to enter in the number. Once you submit your application, you should receive an invite to make an appointment. The interview locations for me were Long Beach and LAX. Both were far for me, but you gotta do what you gotta do. The interview was a bunch of basic questions about why you needed it. At the time and prior to my last job, I did a lot of international travel and a fair amount of domestic travel. Assuming I’d continue this pattern, I opted for the Global Entry program. That was a good decision said the agent and here’s why:
The TSA Precheck only allows you to use it for domestic USA travel. Not international. And only you can use it. So if you’re traveling with another non Precheck person, either tell them to meet you at the bar or curse them for not having it and waiting forty people deep with their non Precheck ass.
Now here’s why you should get the Global entry: you can use it for domestic travel and of course international. Now here’s the best part: your spouse can piggy back off your Global Entry. Now I don’t know if your friend or domestic partner can, but the agent says your spouse can.
Note: not all airlines participate in Precheck. My favorite airlines JetBlue and southwest do.
One thing I ask is that you don’t email me a bunch of questions. I will ignore all of your questions. All the answers are on the website. But the main point of writing this is to help you save some time at the airport security screening stations and to encourage you to get the Global Entry instead of the regular TSA Precheck.

In principle I like Precheck. i got enrolled for free as part of joining Global Entry. No more taking off your shoes, taking your laptop bag out, removing your jacket, or other embarrassing searches. Imagine security twenty years ago, that’s what it’s like. Or even faster since so few people are currently enrolled in Precheck. The reality of Precheck is a little less rosy. There are few checkpoints and they may well be in an entirely different terminal from where you need to be.
SFO currently offers Precheck in Terminal 3. Of course it’s not at any of the checkpoints anywhere in the middle, where you check in or come out of the airtrain. It’s at the checkpoint on the far edge of the terminal at the hallway to International. And not just at the edge, it’s another 50 feet of walking past the security point, scanning your boarding pass, and then walking the 50 feet back again to the checkpoint you just passed. Yes it’s fast, but by the time I’d walked way out there, and all the way back to my gate which was at the complete opposite end of the airport, the family who’d been on the airtrain with me had made it through regular TSA, meaning I in fact spent more time doing Precheck.
Another consideration with Precheck is the intentions of the government. Are they eventually looking to have everyone enrolled, except for certain parts of the population? My husband was refused because has a criminal record (from when he was 17, he’s since gone to college and grad school and has been an I.T. manager trusted with extensive sensitive data at two major universities). If everyone with a criminal record is automatically refused, that means the TSA will already be disproportionately targeting certain ethnic groups. And since they don’t have to explain why they refused people (it’s a «voluntary») program, they could easily reject people for, say, being Muslim. Once enough people sign up, they would essentially have divided security into ‘desirables’ who get an easy, hassle-​free, no molestation checkpoint, while all the ‘undesirables’ end up being subjected to even more draconian measures. And since the program for desirables is «voluntary», the TSA has no accountability whatsoever. Highly questionable.