hey there I am teaching you how to get TSA PreCheck in four easy steps as a
frequent flyer for us as an airline family having pre-check will move you
through airport security faster because you do not have to take off your shoes
you do not have to take out your laptop and you don't have to take out that bag
of liquids so let's pop into my video on how to get TSA PreCheck in four steps by
the way my name is Lori welcome to my channel be sure to stick around to the
end to find out if you really need to get pre-check step number one for
getting TSA PreCheck is going to be broken into two sections so part one is
to see if your airport even participates see in the middle of the screen below
tsa PreCheck it says find a participating airport you just type in
the name of your city and instantly you will see whether or not your airport has
a line for pre check-in security in order to get TSA PreCheck you have to
apply online and you have to go in person and have your fingerprints
checked for a background check so that fingerprinting is done in an actual
building after you apply online so for step one I also want you to go to google
and type in where is the nearest pre-check enrollment center near
Winnemucca Nevada or near me because if that building that you have to appear in
front of after you've paid for your online application is three hours away
and you don't have time to go three hours away to appear in person for
fingerprinting then your $85 that you spent online filling out the application
will not be worth it to you so know before you go on to step two and for
step two you go back to TSA gov and click apply I recommend that you then go
and read some of the FAQ the frequently asked questions when you apply online
they are going to send your name through a background check and you must follow
their rules by entering your name the same exact name middle first
whatever name you are using on your ID that you're gonna go through security
with in America and I also use the same name that I will be writing in for my
airplane tickets when I do buy airplane tickets I use the same name that's gonna
that I've applied for the TSA PreCheck and that's on my ID my driver's license
for America travel all that to say is if I have the same name on my airplane
ticket as my other documents no questions will be asked and I will zoom
right through airport security if I have different names because I didn't follow
the rules questions will be asked a supervisor will be called over and my
$85.00 will not be worth it because I will be losing my time wasting my time
the TSA is not in other countries it's just an American thing so you cannot use
it in like London to come back here you will have to follow their rules for
liquids now one thing to know about the $85 application fee it does last for
five years you can pay with credit card money order company cheque or the
certified cheque or cashier's check you cannot pay your $85 pre-check fee with
cash or a personal check an important thing to know here is that only US
citizens can apply for pre check or only lawful lawfully permanent citizens can
apply for pre check because of all the background checks that they're going to
do on you also on the application you are going to have to put your maiden
name if you had one any aliases that you've ever used you're going to have to
put your eye color your weight your hair color all the other beautiful attributes
about yourself you are going to have to type in for this online application one
good benefit from having pre check is that if your kids are under 13 they get
to go through the pre check line if you have pre check if so if they're 12 and
under they automatically get it if you have pre check your husband however does
not okay now that you filled out your application
online you will be able to set an appointment for an in-person appointment
at one of the buildings there are like 380 across the United States for an
enrollment center you will be able to choose what kind of ID you want to bring
and it gives you a list of photo IDs that you can bring then you will also
choose which kind of immigration or citizenship document that you have and
there are only a few of those that is when at the very bottom it's going to
pop up and say these are the two documents you are gonna bring because
you chose those above some enrollment centers are inside the airport now look
at what I did here I googled where is the TSA PreCheck enrollment center near
Chicago O'Hare Airport I'm so sorry I misspelled it if you look under
enrollment center it tells you the location it's in Terminal one baggage
claim near door 1g and it gives you the hours I just wanted you to know that
sometimes your in-person appointment can be inside the airport and sometimes it's
not going to be in the airport or even near the airport in step four for
getting TSA PreCheck is to wait for the snail mail the post office to send you
your known traveler number and when you buy your airplane ticket you will have
to type in your known traveler number for so that you will be allowed to do
pre check and when you receive your ticket when you print it out or get it
emailed to you it's gonna have a little pre check logo on there or it is going
to be and it is definitely going to be embedded in the barcode so that's what
the TSA officers are scanning when you go through security is that bar code
that says she's been background checked she is pre check approved and that's my
biggest tip is to keep that number somewhere like with your passwords or
whatever because you buy tickets on this center line and then the next fair sale
comes out for Christmas and you buy tickets on this airline or at another
Airport you may have to type in your known traveler number again to buy
tickets through that airline so that they know
tsa PreCheck approved that maybe because we're an airline family and we don't buy
tickets very often but so just have that known traveler number because we did not
have it one time and it was a whole rigmarole just to find where my number
was again when you do have pre check you also do not have to take off your belt
and you don't have to take off your lightweight jacket or cardigan on
sometimes a sweatshirt but we know that the security officers know more about
security in the United States than us so you may at times have to take out your
laptop when I was traveling last week we had to take out our laptops if we took
that you don't ever have to take out your phone but yeah you do not have to
take out you might have to take out your laptop even though your pre-check so we
just say yes ma'am yes sir because they know something that we don't know so be
prepared to do that and I learned the hard way I took this toiletry bag
because I'm always preaching and I took I threw my liquids in here because it is
so roomy and the pre-check lawn was not open or for some reason I didn't have it
on my boarding pass because we were flying stambha and so I had to go
through regular security and I just had I took all my liquids out and
individually put them in the bin so know that you might have to take him out
sometime if the lane is closed for some reason and we learned another time when
our flight left at 9:00 p.m. at night I didn't know that they weren't open that
the pre-check Lane wasn't open at the same time that regular security is open
sometimes like they have closing hours even though the regular airport security
line is still going late into the night the pre-check line shuts down so what
you do is you go right to the TSA gov site again and but underneath the TSA
PreCheck where you hit apply right beside there is Lane hours and Lane is
talking about security line pre-check lon so you can check the lane hours for
your airport so do you really need pre check
is it worth the $85 it does last for five years but if you only fly once or
twice a year you will have to make that decision whether the $85 is worth it and
know that there are over six million TSA PreCheck members so the lines for
pre-check are sometimes a lot longer than the regular security line but in
our experience they have always moved faster I can tell you that so I hope
this tutorial on how to get TSA PreCheck in four easy steps has helped you
determine whether or not you want it and how exactly to go about getting it good
luck and thanks for popping over