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You are right to point out that it may not be possible to get such extensions of the validity of your passport. If your country still offers these options - many don't anymore, when your old passport expires you need a new one full stop - make sure that such an emergency solution is recognised by Spain. And I mean Spain and not the Schengen area. There are no EU/Schengen rules for this. There are always two parties involved: your country and the country you want to travel to. The European Union isn't the monolith that many believe or make others believe.Either renew or try to get an extension stamp or letter from your passport office extending your expiry date another few months (if that is possible )
Spot on as always!The article that I quoted is the consolidated version of 12 April 2016 of Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas. This contains all the amendments since 2009 and is currently in force.
Spot on as always!
I suggest that you check the date of issue of your passport, not just the date of expiry.Great information, thanks all! My intended travel dates are 10 June to 26 July 2020 and my passport expires 12 Dec 2020, so I will be well within the 3-month rule. It is a mission renewing my UK passport as it has to go by courier to the UK, takes about a month, and is very expensive. So, rather than send it away for renewal 8 or 9 months before it expires, to be sure I got it back in time, I would rather wait until I get back home from the Jun/Jul trip.
I didn't realise that you will travel from South Africa to Spain on a British passport. In this case, your passport must simply not yet be expired. Unless Brexit has actually happened by June of next year as you will belong to a different kind of passport holders after Brexit. But the Date for Exiting the European Union has turned into an astonishingly moving target ...My intended travel dates are 10 June to 26 July 2020 and my passport expires 12 Dec 2020, so I will be well within the 3-month rule. It is a mission renewing my UK passport as it has to go by courier to the UK, takes about a month, and is very expensive.
@Kiwi-family, you were clever and beat the system. I used one of the links I posted above, https://www.united.com/web/en-US/apps/vendors/default.aspx?i=TIMATIC
and entered the information you supplied using 2019 and 2020. You were denied entry with a passport expiration of January 30 but permitted entry with an expiration of February 1.
Don’t risk it! Expedite s new passport before you leave the USA . The departure airline WILL deny you boarding.Hi, has anyone outside the Schengen Zone arrived in Europe on a date JUST OUTSIDE of the six months expiry date of their passport and been denied entry? The reason being that your passport will expire WITHIN six months in a few days (or a few weeks) time, i.e. while you are still in the zone and before the date of your return ticket. Just wondering if the computer will flag up my passport’s expiry date if I arrive 6 months and 1 day before it expires, and a conscientious immigration officer will refuse me entry.
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