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You may assume you can simply hop on a airplane with an in-date passport and journey the world. The truth is, many international locations demand that guests have months left on their passport earlier than it expires.
Some – together with Australia, Canada and the US – solely require your journey doc to be in date at some point of your journey.
However others give a extra restrictive time-frame, with no actual sample from area to area – whereas most of Asia requires six months in your passport, for instance, completely different Caribbean islands demand completely different time frames.
In some locations, you may as well be caught out for not having sufficient area left in your passport for brand new immigration stamps.
Listed here are the important thing passport validity guidelines for British passports for the world’s prime vacation locations.
Legitimate at some point of your keep
These international locations solely ask that your passport is legitimate till the day you permit the nation.
- Argentina
- Australia
- Barbados
- Canada*
- Chile
- Gibraltar
- Eire
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Tunisia
- St Lucia
- USA
*Whereas that is technically the rule for Canada, in case you have six months or much less in your passport, it could take longer so that you can get by way of immigration.
Legitimate for at some point
Costa Rica requires Britons to have at some point’s validity from the day of their departure.
Legitimate for 3 months
All EU international locations, plus these within the Schengen Space (excluding Eire) require you to have three months left in your passport from the day you intend to depart. Your passport should even be lower than 10 years previous on the day you enter the nation. That is true for the next international locations:
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Republic of Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Vatican Metropolis
These non-European international locations additionally require three months’ validity in your day of departure:
- British Virgin Islands
- Cuba
- French Polynesia
- Kazakhstan
- Lebanon
- Morocco
- New Zealand
- Réunion
- South Korea
- Uzbekistan
Legitimate for six months
Generally, this implies legitimate for six months from the date you arrive within the nation, nevertheless it’s value checking the International Workplace’s particular person entry necessities for the nation you’re visiting to ensure.
- Antigua and Barbuda
- The Bahamas
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- China
- Colombia
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador (& Galapagos Islands)
- Egypt
- Fiji
- Jordan
- Indonesia
- Israel
- Kenya
- Laos
- Madagascar*
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Namibia*
- Nepal
- Oman
- Peru
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Singapore
- South Africa*
- Sri Lanka
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
*South Africa, Madagascar, Kenya additionally require you to have two clean pages left in your passport; Namibia requires one clean web page.
Legitimate for 180 days
India requires a extra particular 180 days of validity from the date you arrive. It additionally asks guests to have two clean pages obtainable for his or her visa.
