The online portal for submitting badge applications continues to gain in popularity, and it makes for efficient processing of forms to speed approval of new badges for employees.
Still, we have a significant number of partners who are using paper applications, and we encourage all businesses to give the online process a try.
As the airport continues its recovery from the pandemic, the number of applications for badges is ramping up. We are currently four days out for badging appointments. We want to keep the wait as short as possible, and more concessionaires using the online system means shorter wait times for badging appointments.
Another benefit of the online option: Its use is lowering the percentage of rejected applications by about 95 percent. One reason is that paper applications often arrive with missing information, but the online application won’t allow you to proceed unless all fields are completed.
Years ago, the Airport Police Department and the Metropolitan Airports Commission heard from concessionaires who were frustrated by the long wait times to get employees badged. That was a key impetus for us to put the online system in place. To make the online process work to its full capacity, we need more partners to utilize it.
Thank you for your cooperation and we’ll see you online!
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Signers should ask all applicants who have become naturalized U.S. citizens within the last five years if they have been issued an Alien Registration Number. If so, the number should be included in the application.
Although a naturalized citizen may present a U.S. passport and other ID documents to meet the requirement, the Alien Registration Number continues to remain active after naturalization. The number is key to taking advantage of the “Smart Scoring” that’s part of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ online tool that allows agencies to efficiently verify an applicants’ status.
Please remember to ask those applicants to provide that number and include it in the application to avoid delays in processing.
The Badging Office recently expanded hours for badge pick-ups and SIDA (Security Identification Display Area) training classes.
Employees can now pick up badges at the Badging Office from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
SIDA classes, which take place on-demand at computers in the training center, are available any time between 7 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (start times). The training course usually takes a maximum of 1.5 hours, so late-day trainees would be done with the course by about 3 p.m.
Please alert your employees to the new hours.
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 Recently, some MSP Airport employees have tried to assist passengers on the secure side who left behind a personal item on the public side, usually in the ticketing lobby. The employees have retrieved the item, and then brought the item through the employee portal to hand it to the owner.
This is an important reminder for all airport employees that any individual, personal belonging or item destined for travel on a plane is required to be screened at a TSA checkpoint only. This includes bags, cell phones, purses, wallets and smaller items such as driver’s licenses, credit cards and keys.
Airlines and other companies that interact with passengers in the public area should develop a company policy that passengers can only be reunited with a forgotten item in a non-secure area by leaving the secure side and retrieving it themselves. Airport employees should realize that if they bring someone else’s prohibited item through security unwittingly, they are still personally responsible for that item.
Employees who bring items through security for another individual are subject to penalties, including suspension or revocation of their security badge.
Please remind your employees of this screening requirement.
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