Child’s passport only has 2 months on it. Flying to Spain on Saturday!

That said, I honestly, HONESTLY cannot imagine ANYONE doing this in real life. This only ever happens on Mumsnet. Does this really happened in real life??? People booking a holiday for their family (them, their DH and their kids,) and then discovering TWO DAYS before they go, that their son's passport only has 2 months left on it?

I mean, come on, who DOES that?

Well, yes. Not me, but ex did it. He insisted on booking the whole holiday without any input from me. Fine. He messed it all up, one way or another (stupid early crossing, booked a family room at Premier Inn (not acceptable as dss not my child and was 15), left it too late so we couldn't go where we wanted, booked three different places for a one week holiday and didn't check the distance between so we spent twelve hours on the road on one day of the holiday with dss having a major grump in the back seat) and we got in the car the day we were setting off, I picked up the folder of docs, opened dss passport and it was out of date by about three months. Properly out of date. Not my responsibility at all. But yeah, it happens.

@Toanewstart23
Was the father a hi-viz airline pilot?

Yes, really

Who had a baby at 58?
Has the thread suddenly taken an interesting turn?

Btw, the FCO won't comment on passports and their validity as passports are the jurisdiction of the Home Office.

You’re incredibly rude OP.

So in January 2019, they put notices all over the store, saying 'we will be closing at 4.30pm from now on, from 31st October 2019.'

Or in practice, what the pharmacy did in January 2019, was put a notice on the door saying that 'after 25th December 2018 we will close at 4.30. So why don't you know.?'

Because this is effectively what they did with the extra months added on: stopped adding it on after 10th September, initially swore that nothing had changed and then had to admit that it had. See my earlier post by the money saving expert.

This has been common knowledge for almost SIX YEARS.
To blame Brexit is farcical and pathetic.

And this is absolute nonsense, because for most of the time until Johnson got his 'Great Deal' they were constantly talking of walking out without a deal. Eventually something was cobbled together at the last moment, but the end result was that it was too late to publish the rules and clarify areas of potential misunderstanding. If they had been negotiating in good faith from the off, then these sorts of changes could have been publicised fully. But telling people that things were worse after Brexit does not square with the Good Deal.

Do you collect? DC are approximately a 6 hour drive from Derbyshire, happy to pay for petrol.

Are your rates inflated for half term?

Thanks in advance.

And the suggestion to go to the embassy whilst on holiday to get your son a passport and hope passport take pity on you?

I mean
No words
I’d sooner never ever go on holiday for the rest of my life

Can you imagine how the son would feel?!

Oh but it’s alright because she’s dbs checked

Me too - hooray I don’t have a criminal record!

Then they slipped out info in the quietest way possible that was incorrect.

Then they pretended nothing had changed.

Then they went ummm

She can’t be a parent
Although I looked at history and apparently used a frozen embryo at 58 years old to have a baby
Either way - it’s the most ridiculous suggestion I’ve ever seen. Not kind. Ridiculous

I would actually offer to take your son for his passport and have him stay with us( i have a DBS doc)...in Derbyshire.... and take him to airport a couple days late if it makes any difference. If you can cover most expenses ? I really feel for you. They may take pity on you at passport control if you are getting him a passport whilst on hols at nearest embassy.......

@newname12345

Maybe you look suspicious if your passport was fully checked each time?

Yeah, no doubt it was the massive amount of cocaine wrapped in little plastic bags around my waist.

Nothing to do with the fact that I was in customs at the airport, and I was travelling from abroad, into - and out of their country.

[quote HelloFrostyMorning]@Jaxxy

Pre Brexit, you might have got away with it as they Spanish authorities just glanced at your passport and waved you through.

It has NEVER been like this. I have travelled to Spain MANY times since the early 1990s, and they have never just waved you through without checking your passport. What a load of nonsense![/quote]
Back then there wasn't the same level of checking as passports weren't electronic scanned and I definitely remember literally being waved through immigration (within europe) without my passport being really checked.

Maybe you look suspicious if your passport was fully checked each time?

@Jaxxy

Pre Brexit, you might have got away with it as they Spanish authorities just glanced at your passport and waved you through.

It has NEVER been like this. I have travelled to Spain MANY times since the early 1990s, and they have never just waved you through without checking your passport. What a load of nonsense!

@Grrrrdarling Wow, Just WOW.....

PMSL, I can't believe people actually say this!

If you are a non-EU national wishing to visit or travel within the EU, you will need a passport

• valid for at least three months after the date you intend to leave the EU country you are visiting

• which was issued within the previous 10 years

That makes sense.

But why does it have to be valid for longer than 10 years then?!?