Have I got time to get a new passport for trip to Europe?
The Independent|November 25, 2024
Q My passport expires in July 2025. Is the Passport Office doing renewals quickly these days? If not, when is the best time? I intend to go to Europe before March.
Have I got time to get a new passport for trip to Europe?

Annie C

A Thank you for a timely question. First, the fact that your passport expires in July of next year makes me concerned that it may already be too old for a trip to Europe. This is one of many effects of Brexit on existing British passports. Your travel document would have been issued at some date between October 2014 and July 2015; before the UK voted to leave the European Union, renewed passports were routinely credited with up to nine months of unexpired time from the old document.

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