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False Passport Expiry Advice Putting EU Holidays At Risk
The Independent|August 08, 2023
The UK government is still giving out false information about the validity of children’s passports for travel to the EU, 32 months after expiry rules changed as a result of Brexit – putting expensive family holidays needlessly at risk.
- SIMON CALDER
False Passport Expiry Advice Putting EU Holidays At Risk

One family, from Sheffield, was on the brink of cancelling a £5,000 cruise to Spain and Portugal after repeatedly being assured, incorrectly, that the passport belonging to their nine-year-old had expired. After contacting The Independent, their holiday will now go ahead. Since January 2021, all British passports have had to meet two tests for travel to the European Union:

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