Your Valid Passport Might not be Good for Travel
Jan 5, 2018 06:31:08 #
This came as a surprise to me. If you're taking a trip abroad, your passport must not only be valid, it's expiration date must be well past your return date.
https://adequateman.deadspin.com/dont-be-like-me-the-passport-idiot-1821780107
https://adequateman.deadspin.com/dont-be-like-me-the-passport-idiot-1821780107
Jan 5, 2018 06:50:59 #
jerryc41 wrote:
This came as a surprise to me. If you're taking a trip abroad, your passport must not only be valid, it's expiration date must be well past your return date.
https://adequateman.deadspin.com/dont-be-like-me-the-passport-idiot-1821780107
https://adequateman.deadspin.com/dont-be-like-me-the-passport-idiot-1821780107
Rule of Thumb....don't travel abroad within 6 months of the expiration date of your passport.....Canada/Mexico, no problem
Jan 5, 2018 06:55:56 #
Jan 5, 2018 07:00:10 #
mikedidi46 wrote:
minimum of 6 months after you return, left on your Passport
I think it has always been that way.
Jan 5, 2018 07:13:06 #
Jan 5, 2018 07:38:32 #
Jan 5, 2018 09:48:32 #
But of course. An expired passport is not a valid passport anymore than an expired driver’s license is a valid driver’s license. If your passport expires while you’re abroad, how do you expect to return to the US without a valid passport?
Jan 6, 2018 08:53:17 #
I applied for a new passport at a U. S. Consulate office and received a new one in about a week. If I remember correctly, they recommended applying 6 months before the old one expired.
Jan 6, 2018 11:04:37 #
DavidJon wrote:
But of course. An expired passport is not a valid passport anymore than an expired driver’s license is a valid driver’s license. If your passport expires while you’re abroad, how do you expect to return to the US without a valid passport?
It is really an immigration issue, not an expired passport issue. Countries set passport expiration rules in the hope that you will go home. Don’t airlines just provide a roadblock because they know you won’t be allowed into the arrival country unless your passport meets local rules?
Jan 6, 2018 11:51:49 #
If your passport expires while you are out of the country, can you be prevented re-entry even though your home and belongies are here. If your passport expires while out of the country, are you an immigrant.
Jan 6, 2018 11:53:51 #
jaycoffman
Loc: San Diego
I don't think it's always been that way--at least not to all destinations. A number ("a lot") of years ago I was working in Baltimore on a special project and when the computers broke down I suddenly had five days off so I went to a travel agent and booked a flight to the Bahamas. All I had was an expired passport but they accepted that then.
Now, almost everywhere has some rule about it not expiring within X months of your return. I sometimes think it's false advertising by the US when they tell you your passport is good for 10 years--I think that makes it really only good for nine and a-half years which further exacerbates their choice to raise the rates enormously.
Now, almost everywhere has some rule about it not expiring within X months of your return. I sometimes think it's false advertising by the US when they tell you your passport is good for 10 years--I think that makes it really only good for nine and a-half years which further exacerbates their choice to raise the rates enormously.
Jan 6, 2018 12:01:48 #
In my college years before going to Canada required a passport I went to Canada with a bunch of college friends. On our way back into the country we were all asked where we were born. Everything was going along smoothly until one of them answered, "Chad." We were pulled aside for some further questioning. Fortunately, they accepted his explanation that he was born in Africa to American missionary parents.
Jan 6, 2018 12:07:44 #
Blaster34 wrote:
Is that because you might be detained in Canada, Mexico, North Korea, Syria or some other third world country for an unspecified period of time? Rule of Thumb....don't travel abroad within 6 months of the expiration date of your passport.....Canada/Mexico, no problem
When I was in the Air Force I was stationed at Hickam AFB in Hawaii. When I was discharged and returned home I didn't need a passport to get back to the 'states'. That was back in 1968 when I returned. Things might be different now.
I was born and lived in the U.S. of A. my whole life but I have never had a passport so when I return from a trip out of the country I blend in with other undocumented aliens running across the border.
Jan 6, 2018 12:15:48 #
My dad told me that he and a couple of his buddies traveled from Pittsburgh, PA to San Francisco, CA back in the 1920s in a Model T Ford via Canada. He said they worked their way across Canada even though they weren't allowed to work there. I asked him, "So you were an illegal alien". After a moment of silence he sheepishly said, "Yeah".
Jan 6, 2018 14:54:58 #
EdJ0307 wrote:
I was stationed at Hickam AFB in Hawaii. When I was discharged and returned home I didn't need a passport to get back to the 'states'.
Uhhh, I think that was because Hawaii was one of the states at that time.
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