Passport rules for travel to EU and other rules to know before your half-term holiday
Passports issued to people aged 18 or over are more likely to cause confusion around the ten-year rule.
Up until 2018, extra time left on the previous passport was added to the new passport when it was renewed. This means that some UK passports are valid for more than 10 years. Some advice from the government and travel operators previously, and incorrectly, suggested that extra time on passports could not be used for travel to the EU.
The key point is that the two rules laid out above are independent of one another. For example, if your passport was issued on 30 September, 2012, but has an expiry date of 30 December, 2022, and you planned to take a week-long break to Spain on 23 September, 2022, you would meet the EU’s rules. It does not matter that when you leave the EU the issue date of your passport will be more than 10 years ago.When arriving or departing an EU or Schengen zone country, you should make sure that your passport has been stamped.
This is to show that you are meeting the requirements for third-country nationals, which, since Brexit, includes UK citizens, on how long you can spend in the EU without a visa.
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