Passport expiry date

howlsatthemoon

Hi all

We are flying to Greece on the 3rd April for 7 nights returning on the 10th April.

I have just checked my passport and the expiry date is 24th July 2024. It is advised that you must have 3 months left on your passport, just wondering if I will be ok or will I be cutting it a little fine with the dates?

Cheers.

Brie

What is the start date of the passport?  I thought there was something about it needing be be more than 3 months from the end of the 10th year of the passport.  I may be wrong though as I don't have a UK passport and different rules apply for me.

But if 24/7/24 is the expiry date officially and you are back on the 10th April you have 2 weeks spare.  

35har1old

howlsatthemoon said:

Hi all

We are flying to Greece on the 3rd April for 7 nights returning on the 10th April.

I have just checked my passport and the expiry date is 24th July 2024. It is advised that you must have 3 months left on your passport, just wondering if I will be ok or will I be cutting it a little fine with the dates?

Cheers.

Has the passport been renewed previous and was it renewed early and you received ten year plus date this no longer applies so you have only ten years from start date of the present passport

JGB1955

35har1old said:

howlsatthemoon said:

Hi all

We are flying to Greece on the 3rd April for 7 nights returning on the 10th April.

I have just checked my passport and the expiry date is 24th July 2024. It is advised that you must have 3 months left on your passport, just wondering if I will be ok or will I be cutting it a little fine with the dates?

Cheers.

Has the passport been renewed previous and was it renewed early and you received ten year plus date this no longer applies so you have only ten years from start date of the present passport

So wrong!  You have to return to UK within 3 months of the expiry date.

howlsatthemoon

Hi all, sorry made a mistake expiry is actually 17/07/24 and date of issue was 17/07/14

35har1old

JGB1955 said:

35har1old said:

howlsatthemoon said:

Hi all

We are flying to Greece on the 3rd April for 7 nights returning on the 10th April.

I have just checked my passport and the expiry date is 24th July 2024. It is advised that you must have 3 months left on your passport, just wondering if I will be ok or will I be cutting it a little fine with the dates?

Cheers.

Has the passport been renewed previous and was it renewed early and you received ten year plus date this no longer applies so you have only ten years from start date of the present passport

So wrong!  You have to return to UK within 3 months of the expiry date.

I think you need to check ABTA site for new rules that apply to passports 
The passport is only valid for ten years from date of issue  for entry  and you return can be  up to three months of expiry date

It appears that the OP has his first passport so has no surplus months beyond the ten year period.
If it had not been his first passport you could be easily caught out by the extended expiry date

eDicky

There is no 'cutting it fine' for EU travel with a UK passport, either it is valid for the the dates of travel, or it is not.

For EU travel your UK passport must be:

• issued less than 10 years before the date you enter the country (check the ‘date of issue’).
• valid for at least 3 months after the day you plan to leave (check the ‘expiry date’ printed in your passport)

 Your passport fulfills the requirements for your intended travel dates.

howlsatthemoon

Thanks eDicky, was hoping I was ok, didn't want to take the chance of trying to renew my passport and it not coming back in time.

eskbanker

35har1old said:

I think you need to check ABTA site for new rules that apply to passports

Not recommended - it makes far more sense to check the official gov.uk and EU pages for definitive information, rather than relying on a trade association whose website still includes a 2019 document that gives wrong data about passport validity, which came up on another thread recently too.

Edit: this one - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80557508/#Comment_80557508

Pollycat

eskbanker said:

35har1old said:

I think you need to check ABTA site for new rules that apply to passports

Not recommended - it makes far more sense to check the official gov.uk and EU pages for definitive information, rather than relying on a trade association whose website still includes a 2019 document that gives wrong data about passport validity, which came up on another thread recently too.

Edit: this one - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80557508/#Comment_80557508

Here - for Greece:
Entry requirements - Greece travel advice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Passport validity requirements

If you are planning to travel to an EU country (except Ireland), or Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino or Vatican City, you must follow the Schengen area passport requirements.

Your passport must be:

• issued less than 10 years before the date you enter the country (check the ‘date of issue’)
• valid for at least 3 months after the day you plan to leave (check the ‘expiry date’)

You must check your passport meets these requirements before you travel. If your passport was issued before 1 October 2018, extra months may have been added to its expiry date.

noitsnotme

howlsatthemoon said:

Thanks eDicky, was hoping I was ok, didn't want to take the chance of trying to renew my passport and it not coming back in time.

Just as an aside, I was pleasantly surprised how quickly our new passports were processed recently. We applied online on Sunday 28th Jan.  Posted the old passports on Monday 29th that arrived at the passport office the following day.  And our new passports were delivered to us on Saturday 3rd Feb.  6 days from start to finish, I was very impressed.