{"id":493267,"date":"2026-02-23T03:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493267\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:11:10","slug":"vancouver-airport-ties-nexus-outage-to-u-s-partial-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493267\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver airport ties Nexus outage to U.S. partial government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Canadian airports say people wanting to use <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/nexus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NEXUS<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/global-entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Global Entry<\/a> at U.S. pre-clearance are out of luck, as both programs are currently unavailable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the X accounts for multiple airports including Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Montreal posted advisories that access to the programs for U.S.-bound flights were closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassengers travelling through U.S. Customs at YYC should allow for extra time to pass through security checks,\u201d Calgary International Airport wrote in an X post.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Pearson International Airport also advised on X that travellers were encouraged to use the Mobile Passport Control app to expedite processing at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Vancouver International Airport indicated the suspension of access to both pre-clearance programs is due to the ongoing partial government shutdown south of the border.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be aware that access to NEXUS and Global Entry pre-clearance programs for U.S.-bound flights at YVR are currently suspended until further notice due to the partial U.S. Government shutdown,\u201d a post on the airport\u2019s website says. \u201cThis change may impact processing times for travellers departing for the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Sunday it would shut down the Global Entry program as long as the partial shutdown was in effect.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>That announcement came a day after DHS said it planned to shut down both Global Entry and the Transportation Security Administration\u2019s (TSA) PreCheck program. DHS later cancelled the PreCheck closure.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown began Feb. 14 after Democrats and the White House were unable to reach a deal on legislation to fund DHS. Democrats have been demanding changes to immigration operations core to President Donald Trump\u2019s deportation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11676362\/punch-the-monkey-dragged-older-macaque-video\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771816269_356_punch-the-monkey-video.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAbandoned baby monkey Punch dragged by older macaque in heartbreaking video\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11676839\/first-nations-passport-us-travel\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771816270_681_Canada-Passport.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada warns First Nations people to carry passport when crossing U.S. border\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NEXUS program speeds up border crossings for frequent travellers from Canada and the U.S., according to Canada Border Services Agency and U.S. Customs officials. It works by expediting the crossing of pre-screened travellers and allowing border officers to focus more attention on stopping illegal activities and criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Global Entry is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection program that allows pre-approved, low-risk travelers to use expedited kiosks when entering the United States from abroad. There\u2019s no specific government data that shows how much time passengers save at airports or other ports of entry from Global Entry but travel industry experts estimate that Global Entry cuts the amount of time passengers spend getting through customs to 5 to 10 minutes, from an average of 30 to 90 mins for regular customs lines.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Those who have Global Entry also receive TSA PreCheck. The Department of Homeland Security said in 2024 that more than 20 million Americans had TSA PreCheck, and millions of those Americans have overlapping Global Entry memberships.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014with files from Global News\u2019 Aaron D\u2019Andrea and The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several Canadian airports say people wanting to use NEXUS or Global Entry at U.S. pre-clearance are out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19699,48,197972,43,44,115056,41,39,42,40,197973,2845],"class_list":{"0":"post-493267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-global-entry","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nexus","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-u-s-customs","19":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}