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Less than 6 months on passport?

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 19 April 2011 - 21:40

Inspired by another thread about passport renewals, I've just checked mine and there will be less than 6 months of validity left on it when we travel, will they let me out???

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EW GURU
Latest post on 20 April 2011 - 00:40
It depends where you are travelling to. If it is to your home country (i.e. the country where you are legally permitted to live permanently), then typically it's not a problem. If it's to anywhere else, then it's quite likely you will be turned away at the check-in desk. If an airline allows you to travel with less than 6 months' validity on your passport, and you get refused entry at your destination because of it, the airline can be held responsible and is subject to heavy fines as well as the costs of repatriation. So they usually play it safe. A friend's daughter recently tried to travel from the UK to Dubai on a passport with less than 6 months' validity (she'd forgotten that it was close to expiry), and was refused by the airline. They told her that she could ask for permission to travel from the UAE embassy in London, and she did try this, but was turned down flat. Her only option was to renew her passport, which cost her an arm and a leg because she needed to get the same-day fast-track service, and then she had the extra costs of rearranging her flight schedule so she could fly two days later.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 19 April 2011 - 21:55
I am in your situation. I ma sure they will let you out. I am from Spain, where are you from? My husbund is form the UK and he got his passport renewed in 2 weeks.
 
 

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