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CBP must link household family members' NEXUS applications and offer linked scheduling and joint-interview options within 180 days, with possible interview exemptions for children under 14.
The bill makes it easier and faster for families to apply for and be processed together for NEXUS, trading off implementation costs, potential delays when one member is ineligible, and modest reductions in individualized vetting for young children.
Parents and families (including children applying for NEXUS) can submit and manage linked household applications and schedule joint interviews, simplifying paperwork and appointment coordination.
Allowing joint interviews and linked processing can shorten overall processing time for family applications, speeding access to NEXUS benefits for multiple household members.
Children under 14 are exempted from in-person interviews, reducing travel, stress, and the chance of missed appointments for families with young children.
If one family member is ineligible, linking applications and holding joint interviews could delay processing or approvals for otherwise eligible family members.
Implementing the linking/scheduling system within 180 days will require IT and operational changes at CBP, creating costs that could divert agency resources or slow other services and affect taxpayers.
Exempting children under 14 from interviews reduces individualized vetting and could modestly increase security or identity-verification risks if not paired with alternative checks.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Official title: To require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to link together applications of family members throughout the NEXUS application process, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 22, 2026 by Timothy M. Kennedy · Last progress June 22, 2026
Requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to link family members' NEXUS program applications and to provide scheduling and interview options for linked families within 180 days of enactment. The bill lets CBP exempt children under 14 from interviews and permits joint interviews for linked family members. "Family members" is defined to include parents, legal guardians, children, grandparents, grandchildren, and siblings who live in the same household, and the bill uses the existing statutory definition of NEXUS by reference.