Do you know where your passport is right now

[legyeleven]

Even if you do go and check. Kids break up soon and you don’t want a last minute panic.

I had a middle of the night panic about the dates on my ds passport and feel better for checking

New passport last month, in the drawer with husband's and ds's, although husband's was out yesterday for id verification for his mum's estate. Not going abroad this summer anyway but renewed as less than 6 months left and with not being in the EU anymore, that becomes limiting

As DH no longer drives I thought it wise to renew his passport anyway even if we might not go abroad again. It is such a useful document for ID as m ost places will only accept a passport or driving licence as valid ID.

Wow so if someone snatched your bag, they could steal everything you have including your identity.

You are a scammer/forgers dream!!

Mine is in the documents folder in our fireproof box. I leave DH to look after his own. DC has his with him as he’s on holiday right now (Uni age)

I agree. I assume that @Jane958 works an hour away from home, but it is still bizarre to not keep important documents somewhere safe unless there is a back story.

I am driving somewhere two hours away today. I will have my driving licence on me of course but everything else will be locked safely away in my fireproof safe.

I don't leave DH to look after his own as he has memory issues and loses things. I still think it is odd not to keep all important documents together.

DD has hers with her at university.

You need an ETA to fly to the UK on an EU passport.

I currently do not, although I am aware of it 😂. There is a chance it got left at Vienna Airport last week but currently it is a mystery!

im quite up for an Apple/British passport office collab where all passports have a built in AirTag…

Yes, in a drawer in my bedroom. I also have a copy in my email so if i need to look at it or refer to it on the go I can. I got a new passport just before Brexit so it's still one of the old purple ones. I'll be sad to lose that when I next renew.

100% know where it is all the time. DH's is with it.

It doesn't surprise me though that some mumsnetters don't know where theirs is, seeing as how you regularly get people on here saying they're going on holiday to Florida/Malaga/Crete the day after tomorrow, and they've just realised their oldest child's passport is out of date by a year. 🙄

Some mumsnetters are not the most organised of people!

I checked mine recently and was delighted to find €110 tucked in the back that I'd forgotten about!!

Yes, I fly for work so it's in my desk drawer as it's used most months. I also have currency split into plastic DL wallets plus printed insurance & EHICs in a larger clear wallet.

I keep a copy of my passport (plus my DH/DC passports) on my phone too.

Love when that happens

Mines next to me as I'm sorting a 10 day trip to Texas. Any other time its in a lock box with all the other important documents.

I know where mine is but this has reminded me to take a photo of the key page and save that securely 👍

Passports always live in the same drawer.

I don’t know why they wouldn’t.

Mine is always in my backpack. When all the family lived at home they all lived in the safe except for when in use. I had all expiry dates on the calendar.

For years I kept mine in my handbag, I have no idea why, but at some point it seemed OK to leave it in the drawer. I think I liked to think I was the kind of person who could go on holiday just like that. I'm not.

Can I also add to check any visas too, especially if you've had a new passport, as they might be linked via you passport number

(It didn't cross our minds to check this, was a VERY expensive delayed start to our USA travels ..)

Yep, I have a drawer of important stuff. My husband wouldn’t have a clue and without me would likely be a poster of.. Going on a six month trip around Australia in 3 days and my passport is out of date, what can I do??

Me too. I once put my passport needed for ID in the glove compartment of the car after it was needed, in case someone snatched my bag.

Then forgot it was there, and when I remembered some weeks later, passport had disappeared. Could only assume it had been nicked by someone at the car wash we had used now and then.

Just as well there was no holiday imminent…

So does anyone have a fireproof safe they’d recommend? We debated it years ago and then never did anything. Our passports are on the bookcase!

Yes, it’s the safe in my hotel room here in Lanzarote 😁

Yes all 6 as we're going away in 40 days on ny hubby's desk where they have been since our jan hoilday plus we used them in March for me and hubby

In the fire safe. We always keep them stored safely there. We go on holiday and when we get back the first thing DH does is return passports to the safe along with any left over currency.

Yes I know exactly where it is but it expired in 1999.