Passport due for renewal 1st April - do it pre/post brexit or no difference?

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Just that really. Passport expires 1/4/19 any benefit in renewing early? Or will it literally make no difference?

No info on passport website so thought I'd ask here!

You'll lose any extra months if you renew early

Annoyingly I don’t think anyone can tell you whether Brexit will make a difference - we haven’t experienced anything like this.
You can’t carry the time over though, so it’s dependsnon when you are travelling nd where to.

I have just used the online renewal and it seems very quick - I uploaded everything New Years Eve and my new passport is in the post already.

You don't lose extra months, they add them on

I’m doing it before, but mostly because I don’t want a blue one

You do not lose months for applying early. I wish people would check their facts before giving advice.

The passport office will add up to 9 months onto your new passport, therefore the maximum a passport can be valid is 10 years and 9 months.

Sorry this doesn't help with the original question

They don't add the extra months in now @NoArmaniNoPunani

Actual facts from .gov.uk ... remaining months NOT carried over any more.
www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport/renew

You're incorrect @AnnieField

They don’t add extra months at the moment. I sent off an online renewal on 26 Dec - any excuse to move away from the food! - and it arrived 2 January. That’s a very quick turnaround in my book.

"I wish people would check their facts..." @anniefield

They don't add extra months. Mine came through in less than a week but post brexit might be busy (especially if they bring back blue passports). Mines also still says EU on it (renewed last month) though so don't know if they expect you to renew again post brexit.

What - why don't they add extra months any more?? Is it temporary to prevent a rush on new ones post Brexit perhaps?

I know they still did earlier this year as we got DS1's renewed.

You don't lose extra months, they add them on

They stopped doing this a few months ago.

@BertieBotts I read that nobody in the EU should have a passport over 10 years validity. I think we are the only country who used to add the months on.

I renewed in the summer and they still added months on then so it's a very recent change

Having just googled, they changed it on 10th September, and didn't announce it through the Home Office - so no wonder people haven't realised, you can hardly blame them for getting it wrong if it is so recent and so hush hush.

I hardly think it can be blamed on EU regulation considering we're about to leave

It was on the news at the time, something to do with the Schengen agreement and Brexit.

Just going to post the link again for anyone who missed it...

[]www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport/renew]]

www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/new-passport-renewal-policy/

It was the International Civil Aviation Authority guidelines.

Well I’m renewing mine early, despite loosing a few months. My one doesn’t expire until October but I’m worried it’ll be chaos for months after Brexit and I’ll end up with no current passport. I asked at my local post office and was told my the man that they’d had no updates for months about Brexit, and he was renewing his just incase as it too was due to expire in 2019.

I’d renew early as they will enevitably use “new” passports as an excuse to push the price up.
I can’t remember what happened when we went from blue to EU but I still went to Europe on my blue one after 1988.

Take the hit and renew now. I'm getting mine back in just about a week start to finish. Over 10 years you'll have lost about a fiver on those missing months. I think you need to have six months remaining to allow you to enter some countries.

I wish people would check their facts before giving advice.

Ooooft.

OP, I would just do it now if needed anytime soon, but I'm a worrier so would just want it done

they don't even add the spare months to a child's 5 year passport .... even though it obviously won't have the over 10 years issue!

we applied for child passport online, sent in documents and got new passport 10 days later... that was December.