Scenario: Made 2 online appts for a Friday @9:20am & 9:40 am for TSA Pre-check.
PARKING: We parked in the City Financial Tower on 201 Merchant St. IdentGO does NOT validate parking and the website recommends using the metered parking outside.
We arrived about 20 minutes early. It is a small office and they were people ALL WITH SCHEDULED APPTS waiting their turn and we're about 40 minutes behind. You need to sign in and bring whatever documents you needed for your situation. They try to triage you quickly so that if you don't have the right paperwork, you're not waiting long. We decided to sit on the floor outside to wait. ONE AND A HALF HOURS later, we were ushered in and they take you back in a room and there's like 2 cubbies. They have four machines and they take 2 people in to process in each cubby. The machine prompts your info ( based on your pre -registration online) and you need to confirm everything is correct. They fingerprint you both hands and then when you're done it cost $78. This took about 6-10 minutes.
THE CHALLENGE is the two gentlemen working there( and they are really fast) has to come to the front to receive people and they take turns doing that. So every time they do that they stop processing people through. If they had just one more person to work the front while they process everyone ( 4 at a time) they could just whip through everyone.
Some people couldn't wait and said they'd come back another day. But I heard that it's like this everyday so plan accordingly.
IT TAKES 60 Days here to get your TSA pre-check approved so if you needed it right away for a trip, you may not be able to use it. read more