10 Year Passport Rule

[Hymie]

According to Simon Clader (The Independent’s travel correspondent) over 100,000 Brits could lose their holiday – another Brexit benefit.

Halleluiah, praise the Lord

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68658209

[newmodarmy]

And when I book a holiday I'm always reminded by the provider about passport dates.

[newmodarmy]

Clearly Hymie has no idea why people voted for Brexit. 

[newmodarmy]

Factors like length of passport valudity and size of champagne bottles were unimportant in the scheme of things

[ToraToraTora]

So you've regurgitated another EUSSR hissy fit. This has been known since Brexit day. Nothing to see here.

[ToraToraTora]

Hymie: "And once British passport holders require a visa to visit EU countries, I reckon more than 100,000 will lose their holiday (they, still thinking they could travel freely, as they have done for over 40 years)." - You seem to thing we are helpless victims.  Anything they can do we can do, if it hurts us it hurts them. Once they stop throwing the toys out we can cooperate again.

[gulliver1]

Long Long queues expected at Dover this easter weekend. Due to disruption caused because of Brexit. Just hope their is no one who voted Brexit stuck in those queues... poor things.Some of them had to wait up to 15 hours to have their lovely Brand New Blue Passports checked last easter.

[Old_Geezer]

To be clear, it matters not whether members and non-members had different rules; the option for dealing with any other nation is a choice by the authorities. They were at the negotiation table for post Brexit agreements, they were capable of setting rules for a past member however they wanted. Otherwise the argument is akin to, "More than my job's worth, guv". But as we all witnessed, the EU were not willing to make things as mutually advantageous as they might.

[douglas9401]

Check your passport will be valid for your trip, if it is fine, if not renew it but don't stand there like a startled goat when your invalid document sees you turned around.

Take a little bit of responsibility for yourself and lose the 'it'll be fine' mentality.

[gulliver1]

NMA 08.54  "Clearly  Hymie has no idea why people voted Brexit"  ...Neither have they!  Bet they regret it now though .

[youngmafbog]

I fail to see the problem here. This has always applied to countries we travel to outside the EU so its not as if its nothing new.

As for visa's, what is the issue.  Always have to do one for the US, it really is no big deal.

Personally I dont think we should follow suit though unless it becomes a problem with EU citizens not leaving after their holiday.

[youngmafbog]

//Clearly Hymie has no idea why people voted for Brexit.// 

He should becasue he has been told zillions of times on here by many different people. But I suspect he ignores the posts as they dont sing to his BDS.

For goodness sake, its nearly 8 years!

[Hymie]

I live in hope that all those denied boarding due to the 10 years passport rule voted for Brexit.

 

Those that did vote for Brexit and still think it a good idea, must have voted to make themselves poorer and life more difficult (for themselves and others).

[Prudie]

"I live in hope that all those denied boarding due to the 10 years passport rule voted for Brexit"

And there is the proof, you don't care one bit about the common good, you just relish in and hope for the pain of others. What is the matter with you?

[naomi24]

Hymie, for goodness sake stop being so ridiculous.  You're bleating on and on and on - year after year - and it's pathetic.  All anyone needs to do is check their passport dates are in order - and you'd do that when travellng anyway - wouldn't you?

[newmodarmy]

It's a wind up prudie and we keep falling for it.

[THECORBYLOON]

"All anyone needs to do is check their passport dates are in order - and you'd do that when travellng anyway - wouldn't you?"

According to Simon Calder up to 100,000 folk a year could be prevented from travelling.

Either they've not checked their passports or have misunderstood the rules.

The BBC thinks it's newsworthy and if one person has been made aware of or reminded about the rules and applies for a new passport as a result of this thread, that has to be a positive.

[naomi24]

Corby, If something like this gets people wringing their hands and and gnashing their teeth for years I just wonder how they cope with the real problems in life. 

[calmck]

36 replies to an issue that has been on here many times before. Many countries had always had a "rule" that passports had to have a length of time before expiration for the date you would return home no matter where you were from. In the US a Registered Alien had to have proof their taxes were up to date if they were leaving for vacation in April.  The problem has been that some UK airlines were all interpreting the 10 year rule differently

[retrocop]

When my wife left school after A levels she whisked her way ,all on her own, from Cradley Heath to the big city. She was17 years old. All alone she found the Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square and bought herself a visa. She then travelled solo to Ibizia where she found lodgings with an Ibezian family with a young daughter. She was allowed to work on the Island and found work in a Spanish hotel in the Travel Agency department by reception. She speaks Catalan like a native.Three years later she returned to the UK where she trained as a nurse and was often called upon for her translation skills in the hospital. We still have her Spanish expiredvisa today.

If a young slip of a girl can get herself a visa in a city she had never visited and get to Ibezia where she found accomodation and work then surely it is not beyond the wit of normal people to do the same though I can understand Hymie and Gulliver find it an ordeal and very taxing. Incidentally. My wife and the family's little girl taught each other their respective languages for which her Mum and Dad were very grateful.

[gulliver1]

I Suppose  living in Britain since Brexit must be like being in Jail .   Since losing the right of freedom of movement and no longer have the right to wander over the sunny uplands of Europe just whenever they want to .Maybe some day the Eu will let you back in again .If you treat them nicely