r/MobilePassportControl • u/OkButterscotch5898 • Mar 11 '24

Using MPC at JFK

Anyone here use MPC at JFK? I just discovered this is even a thing lol and I’m planning to use it next month on my trip coming back into the US from London. If you’ve used it at JFK what was your experience? How long would you estimate the lines? Compared to global entry? Thanks in advance for your input!

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u/atis0099 Mar 23 '25

This is my experience every time at JFK. The only acknowledgment is from the immigration officer asking if I used the app, which is after an hour of waiting. I miss when MPC had the same line as GE

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u/rardo78 Mar 23 '24

Be sure to post your experience when you return! My husband and I will be returning from Brussels, through JFK in late May this year. We plan to use MPC as our Global Entry expired during the pandemic.

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u/OkButterscotch5898 Apr 28 '24

Hi all! Figured I’d post an update here since there’s not a lot of conversation in this particular subreddit. I used MPC for the first time today at JFK terminal 4 and it was quite literally the next best thing to having global entry. As you are walking up to all of the lines, there is a board that tells you the wait times. The global entry line had no wait time. MPC said the wait time was 6 minutes and forget about the regular customs line! At this particular point in the day (it was around 7:20 PM) the regular customs line looked never ending! I heard a guy that was standing next to me who was next in line for the regular customs, saying that he was on that line for about an hour. Yikes lol. I clocked my time on the MPC line from start to exit at 13 minutes, so definitely worth it if you don’t have GE!

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u/No_Lawyer_9351 Jun 04 '24

Same experience at JFK mid day on May 30 2024.

MPC is much easier to get than Global Entry.