Travel with 2 months left on passport
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Looking forward to a few days away with the family on Sunday to Lanzarote booked last minute
Just been checking in online and realised my 11yr old daughters passport expires on the 29th May 24
Reading the guidelines on gov.uk it states 3 months on return and a fast track is one week due to being a child’s passport
Moving the dates is going to be difficult due to work holidays etc
Any bright ideas? Worth chancing it? Likelihood of it getting flagged?
I’m clutching at straws I know
Just been checking in online and realised my 11yr old daughters passport expires on the 29th May 24
Reading the guidelines on gov.uk it states 3 months on return and a fast track is one week due to being a child’s passport
Moving the dates is going to be difficult due to work holidays etc
Any bright ideas? Worth chancing it? Likelihood of it getting flagged?
I’m clutching at straws I know
brianb said:
Any bright ideas? Worth chancing it? Likelihood of it getting flagged?
I’m clutching at straws I know
Book her for a week with the grandparents? I’m clutching at straws I know
Whilst I can’t help with this. It’s worth noting the dates of all your passports and setting a diary entry 6 months before to help with renewals in the future.
It may not apply to your daughter, but check the issue date of your passports.
Since January 2021, to enter the EU Your passport now needs to have been issued less than 10 years before your departure date, and be valid for three months after the final day of your holiday.
If you renewed a UK passport before 2018, any unspent time on your old passport was added to the new one, so your passport expiry date could be more than 10 years after the issue date. For example, I renewed mine last in Feb 2018, but the time remaining on it meant that my new passport expires in Sept 2028, but the EU will say that it won't be valid after Feb 2028. I don't think that passports issued after late 2018 are affected because time was no longer carried over.
Since January 2021, to enter the EU Your passport now needs to have been issued less than 10 years before your departure date, and be valid for three months after the final day of your holiday.
If you renewed a UK passport before 2018, any unspent time on your old passport was added to the new one, so your passport expiry date could be more than 10 years after the issue date. For example, I renewed mine last in Feb 2018, but the time remaining on it meant that my new passport expires in Sept 2028, but the EU will say that it won't be valid after Feb 2028. I don't think that passports issued after late 2018 are affected because time was no longer carried over.
brianb said:
Issue date is 29/05/2019
Just checked in online with easyJet and it’s not flagged anything?
My own related story : Just checked in online with easyJet and it’s not flagged anything?
Many years ago, I managed to wangle my way onto a work trip to Taiwan where others had the ordeal of giving big presentations to ~1000 people, and I was there for moral support and to answer a few technical questions... Happy days
We decided to make an event of it and went via Hong Kong - we spent the Sat night in HKG fully sampling the night life and got back to the hotel at 10am just in time to collect our bags and head to the airport for our blurry eyed onward connection to Taipei.
At check in in HKG, my presentation giving travelling colleage was informed that he now only had 179 days left on his passport and there was no way in hell Cathay were going to board him.
I waved goodbye at the airport, he contacted BA and returned to London.
He ended up with a "free" night out in Hong Kong, and I ended up with a 3 day hangover in Taipei having to give 3 hours a day of in depth technical presentations that I knew very little about.....
I guess the moral of the story is, Good luck!
Every day a journey said:
That story re-appears every year, surely everyone knows by now.Speed 3 said:
Every day a journey said:
That story re-appears every year, surely everyone knows by now.Sadly common sense is the least common of the senses
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