<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/42e32e85-7c51-4b41-8c7f-fc167c9cce7d/6F37DF75-46C9-416A-9CAA-4D82E53B297B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily41.html" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily41.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bizjournals.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily41.html"><H1 class="headline">Global Entry travel program reaches SFO</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily41.html"><P>It’s getting easier for the right kind of international traveler to come to San Francisco.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily41.html"><P>The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has expanded Global Entry, its program that pre-approves registered, low-risk travelers to the U.S. and grants them expedited entry, to <A href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/related_content.html?topic=San%20Francisco%20International%20Airport" class="story_clink">San Francisco International Airport</A> and 11 other cities.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily41.html"><P>Global Entry uses fingerprint biometric technology to verify registered members, including U.S. citizens, and confirm their status. It supposedly takes just 40 seconds for a Global Entry registrant to get through customs inspection, and they use an automated kiosk rather than stand before a live customs or border agent.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily41.html"><P>The program began in New York, Houston and Washington D.C. in June 2008 and was expanded last fall to Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Miami. Today, 20 airports nationwide offer Global Entry to the U.S.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/17/daily41.html"><P>Approximately 20,000 people have applied for Global Entry, and 14,500 have been approved and enrolled in it.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6F37DF75-46C9-416A-9CAA-4D82E53B297B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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