Passport Expiry

[Ducati]

I am off to Budapest in October - my passport expires in November: Will I be OK?

I've heard some countries require you to have 3 or 6 months left on your passport to travel.

Also, is anybody as incensed as me about the cost of a replacement passport - �42.00 - I think that is disgraceful: fair enough for a first passport, or a lost passport, but not for a renewal surely!

[Dom Tuk]

Your airline is the best bet as they can refer to the travel index manual (called TIM for short) and that will give the answer. See if google throws up the travel index manual.

As regards renewal passports. let you in on a secret. If you report your passport lost and then find it the next day you cannot use it as the passport is withdrawn immediately. You have to apply for a new passport. Why not just cancel the notification that it is lost and reinstate the passport. Well there is money to be made.Mr Brown knows all the tricks in the book.

Wait till the ID card bill is made into law. then when you have to shell out �300 the �42 you are complaining about will look like a pittance. And god forbid if you lose your ID card.

[morg_monster]

An answer to an earlier question similar to this suggested a look at this link which details the cost breakdown of a new passport. you may find it interesting... or not.  I don't think it is too bad when you look at it this way and consider it lasts ten years, and in a way is a narrow form of travel insurance! 

http://www.ukpa.gov.uk/_2_howtoapply/2_what_cost.asp

[Cathyhuns]

You can also renew your Passport up to 9 months before it expires and it then lasts for 10 years from when your old one expired.  ie if you renew 6 months early your new passport lasts for 10 years and 6 months.  So why not renew it now and save yourself the hassle.