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BREXIT side effect.
Your passport ‘Expiry Date’ may well be incorrect.
UK govt used to add on any unspent time onto a new passport (like mots), which was fine when we were in the EU. - not anymore!
now for travel, it is based on 10 years since the ISSUE date.
and although the EU only requires 3 months validity for a 3rd country (UK), the uk govt is wrongly advising airlines that it is 6 month requirement, which is resulting in people being denied boarding.
The Independant newspaper is highlighting this overlooked problem.
currently there is no availability to get short notice replacements as there is a huge backlog of people caught up in this debacle.
currently at least a 10 week turnaround for passports.
no urgent ‘appointments’ until august......at the Belfast office....
if you have any travel planned later this year I suggest you check out your actual validity on the gov.uk website, or just base it on the ISSUE date of your passport +10years.
Your passport ‘Expiry Date’ may well be incorrect.
UK govt used to add on any unspent time onto a new passport (like mots), which was fine when we were in the EU. - not anymore!
now for travel, it is based on 10 years since the ISSUE date.
and although the EU only requires 3 months validity for a 3rd country (UK), the uk govt is wrongly advising airlines that it is 6 month requirement, which is resulting in people being denied boarding.
The Independant newspaper is highlighting this overlooked problem.
currently there is no availability to get short notice replacements as there is a huge backlog of people caught up in this debacle.
currently at least a 10 week turnaround for passports.
no urgent ‘appointments’ until august......at the Belfast office....
if you have any travel planned later this year I suggest you check out your actual validity on the gov.uk website, or just base it on the ISSUE date of your passport +10years.