NEXUS Timeline - Blaine, WA • Start to Card
I’ll share my timeline maybe it’ll help people. I applied for myself and my son since we travel up to Canada a lot. Application was sent on January 14th 2026 for both him and myself. My son and I had different conditional approval dates but not by much. I was able to secure a date in June for my son since he got his conditional first. Then my conditional came through and I saw dates in May. I checked every day twice a day to see if I can get two interview slots on the same day. I finally saw two open slots for May 12th and quickly snatched them up. It was perfect as we had to go up to Canada for that weekend and we can just go to our interview on the way back home from Canada. We got to the Blaine office about 15 minutes early, the front desk lady checks us in. We get called for our interview, CBP Officer asks to verify my son’s full name and DOB. He then asks me the same for myself, takes a photo of us one at a time and I do fingerprints. Then CBSA Officer tells me take a picture of the Canadian rules, explains where to go when entering Canada. And sends us on our way. My son’s portal changes to approved immediately, mine changes to approved about an hour after. I looked on here enough to gauge delivery times of at least 10-14 days minimum until card is delivered. I was ready to wait but said it would be nice to have before my trip back to Canada on the 17th. So it was to my delighted surprise to see on USPS Informed Delivery a letter coming from DC for May 16th and said this can’t be it. I got the mail in the afternoon and there were actually two letters from DC. Opened them both and was very shocked at how fast the cards were delivered for my son and I. From reading posts on here most cards get delivered 2 weeks or longer from approval; and cards for more than one person never get delivered at the same time.
• Application sent: January 14th 2026
• Conditional Approval: April 28th 2026
May 3rd 2026
• Interview Date: May 12th 2026
• Approval: May 12th 2026
• Card Received: May 16th 2026
• Card Activated: May 16th 2026
• NEXUS Crossing: May 17th 2026
I’m sure everyone’s experience is different but I hope this helps someone gauge the timeline for approval. I know reading posts like this on here helped me a little. Not only to gauge the timeline for approval but also to set expectations or I should say lower some expectations.