To All UK Passport Holders: Please read carfully

Roland wrote on Wed Aug 18, 2021 9:42am:

Link to government website avoiding Facebook..........

https://check-passport-for-travel-to-europe.homeoffice.gov.uk/?cookies=true

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Just check 5 passports in our family.

1 expires as the date on the passport but 4 expire a year before the date printed on the passport.

What a nasty little trap for people & families to fall into.

PeterC wrote on Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:57pm:

Anyone not aware of this has simply not been keeping up. The UK Gov website has been telling people this for months!

PeterC wrote on Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:57pm:

Anyone not aware of this has simply not been keeping up. The UK Gov website has been telling people this for months!

eraser wrote on Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:15am:

Hi

Below a very sad post from another group.

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I checked it out: the passport of my husband says valid to 26.August 2026 the UKGOV.UK shows valid to 22.Septembre 2025 – that 1 year

A sad post from a member of another group, but a salutory lesson for those with British passports:

"***Sorry in advance for an extra long winded status!But anyone travelling abroad soon please read I’m putting this out there to help anyone who might be like us and totally unaware of this***

So today we were all checked in at Newcastle airport to travel to Palma. We headed to the gate to board the flight and handed over our passports, to be told we couldn’t travel because my passport was out of date !!

Now if you’re like us you’ll probably think the same that 6 months or more is adequate for travel. However this is NOT the case!! If you look at the expiry date on my passport (picture not included in this repost), it expires in April next year, or so I thought. But under new Brexit rules you now need to count from the issue date, taking away any “add ons as the airline put it” meaning my passport had actually expired.

The staff said they’ve turned away so many as people don’t realise but it’s your own responsibility to check the Gov website and that the links are on their website!

The biggest thing is though I have:

*checked in online with those passport details

*completed the government forms with those passport details to be issued a QR travel/entry code

*paid and had PCR fit to fly tests with those passport details

*ordered the Day 2 test kits arriving on Monday with those passport details.

And not one of those entries has flagged this information up

Families in a far worse position than us losing full holidays and ours was only a weekend, but absolutely gutted to say the least and so disappointed we couldn’t get there to surprise our friends. Would hate it to happen to anyone else. So everyone check your passports and check the Gov websites etc….Myself and many others had to learn the hard and expensive way today

Oh and you may also be forced to totally embarrass yourself and publicly cry like ME "

Afternote. As per a comment below, these are rules that came in Sept 2018. I would imagine that only those of us who have renewed our passports since then are aware of it - the UK Govt changed the rules on the quiet . I’m sorry to hear you got caught out. The Gov website has a facility you can use to check if your passport is still valid -

https://www.gov.uk/check-a-passport-travel-europe

Roland wrote on Thu Aug 19, 2021 9:19am:

@PeterC

Can you put a link up for that Gov info please ??