Dave the OAP
Well-known member
Hi folks
We were booking a holiday in Spain during October half term and there was a note sent through to check the validity of your passport!
My passport expires in June 2020 and mrs DTG June 2020, so we assumed that was fine as you need to have 6 months validity and therefore well within if we go in Oct/ Nov
BUT it appears that if you had already renewed you passport they take 10 years from date of issue, And ignore the expiry date...so if any months carried forward from the previous passport is ignored.
So we went on to the governments passport page and lo and behold, both passports are not valid for October 2019 as the issue date were feb and April 2010.
So we would have been caught out. This was news to us and we have just come back from a ship visit and even the people checking our passports didn’t realise this and had to check it.
So if you have an10 year passport about to expire, please go on to the government’s passport website where you can put in your number and it tells you when you can travel and when you need to renew.
We were booking a holiday in Spain during October half term and there was a note sent through to check the validity of your passport!
My passport expires in June 2020 and mrs DTG June 2020, so we assumed that was fine as you need to have 6 months validity and therefore well within if we go in Oct/ Nov
BUT it appears that if you had already renewed you passport they take 10 years from date of issue, And ignore the expiry date...so if any months carried forward from the previous passport is ignored.
So we went on to the governments passport page and lo and behold, both passports are not valid for October 2019 as the issue date were feb and April 2010.
So we would have been caught out. This was news to us and we have just come back from a ship visit and even the people checking our passports didn’t realise this and had to check it.
So if you have an10 year passport about to expire, please go on to the government’s passport website where you can put in your number and it tells you when you can travel and when you need to renew.
