TTPRADARDel Rio and Brownsville, Texas, are sitting among the slowest Global Entry enrollment centers in the country to book right now.
TTPRadar's scan of CBP's Global Entry appointment scheduler on September 20, 2026 measured Del Rio Enrollment Center at a 58-day wait, the second-longest of any center nationwide, with the next open interview slot on November 17. Brownsville Enrollment Center measured 38 days, eighth-longest, with a next opening on October 28.
That day, Newark Liberty, JFK, Detroit and New Orleans all had same-day interview slots open.
The numbers
TTPRadar checked 114 Global Entry enrollment centers on September 20. Eighty-nine had some future availability, 21 had none, and the nationwide median wait was 2 days. Here is where Del Rio and Brownsville landed among the 8 longest waits measured that day.
| Rank | Enrollment center | Wait (days) | Next opening |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salt Lake City, UT | 122 | 2027-01-20 |
| 2 | Del Rio, TX | 58 | 2026-11-17 |
| 3 | Springfield-Branson, MO | 53 | - |
| 4-6 | Cleveland, OH / San Francisco, CA / Phoenix, AZ | 44 | - |
| 7 | Bradley, CT | 39 | - |
| 8 | Brownsville, TX | 38 | 2026-10-28 |
Centers with a same-day opening included Newark Liberty, JFK, Detroit, New Orleans, Fort Lauderdale, Guam, Grand Portage and St. Louis. You can check the current figure for any specific center, including Del Rio and Brownsville, on our live Global Entry wait times page.
This is not a border-wide problem
It would be easy to read this as a border-wide problem. The data does not support that. The single longest wait in the country on September 20 belonged to Salt Lake City, a non-border center, at 122 days, more than double Del Rio's number. Three of the other six centers in the 8-longest list, Springfield-Branson, Cleveland and Phoenix, are nowhere near a border either.
Other well-known border enrollment centers, including El Paso, Laredo, San Ysidro and Nogales, did not appear in either the 8 longest or 8 shortest list that day. TTPRadar's published ranking only surfaces the extremes, so their exact current wait cannot be stated here without checking the scheduler directly. What the data does show is that today's numbers are concentrated at two specific centers, not a whole category.
Why this happened
CBP does not publish per-center staffing or capacity changes, so there is no confirmed reason Del Rio and Brownsville's waits are this long today. What is known is that Global Entry appointment supply moves around nationally over time rather than staying fixed at any one location. Reporting on nationwide appointment supply found more than 50,000 interview slots open within 90 days as of late August 2026, and separately nearly 12,000 slots open within 30 days by September, figures that shift week to week as travelers book, cancel and reschedule. Individual centers moving in and out of the fastest or slowest rankings is consistent with that churn.
What to do instead
Treat any "fast enrollment center" recommendation as a starting point to verify, not a fact to bank on. Appointments open and close daily, so the only reliable check before you book travel around an interview is the live number for the specific center you're considering.
CBP also runs Enrollment on Arrival, which lets a conditionally-approved applicant finish the interview step at select airport ports of entry on a return trip to the US, instead of booking a dedicated appointment at a center like Del Rio or Brownsville at all. It's worth checking whether an airport on your upcoming itinerary offers it before you commit to a center-based booking.
If you'd rather not keep refreshing the scheduler yourself, TTPRadar's free browser alerts watch a center for openings and notify you when one appears, and the full list of centers we track is on the locations page. For faster or unattended checking across multiple centers, paid alerts are also available.