To wonder if I'm going to have issues with my passport?

[PinataHeeHaw]

I'm travelling to Spain in July. My passport was issued April 2015 and expires November this year.

Current rules say you must be returning to the UK within 3 months of the expiry date of your passport, which is fine, but also say that your passport should have an issue date of less than ten years before the date of travel. That means I'll be three months outside of these rules. Getting a new passport is almost £100. I'm going to have to get a new passport aren't I, even though it doesn't officially expire until November?

Do it now, online. Mine took 5 days and cost about £80. There is an app you can download to get the photo approved. you pay about £5 and they check your photo, send you a code to upload onto your application and they send you 4 hard copies of your photo.

The EU no longer recognises time carried from a previous passport so your passport expires 10 years from the date it was issued and you need that expiry date minus 3 months as your return date.

She was able to enter the EU until April 2025 as it only needs to be under 10 years old at that point (count 10 years from issue date)

The extra months can be counted towards the 3 months you need to be remaining when you leave the EU (look at expiry date)

Wrong
The 10 year rule is separate from the 3 month remaining rule.

1. On the date of entry you need to be within the 10 year period (look at issue date)
2. You need 3 months remaining when you leave the EU but this includes any extra months and doesn't have to be deducted from the 10 years calculated in number 1)

Just curious why yer passports are for 10 and a half years? I’m Irish and all our passports are 10 years except for children’s passports.

Up until 2018, extra months remaining from old passports could be added to the new passport making it valid for up to 10y 9months. Since Brexit those extra months are no longer recognised for travel in the EU