My Uk passport is apparently not valid for travel in the EU after 31 December 2020

[bellinisurge]

I got a text to this effect just now from tbe passport service. I know it's a kosher message because I had a message from the same number about my DD's Uk passport application recently. I apparently need a new passport if I want to go to the EU after 31 December 2020.

Firstly, fuck off you cock wombles because I also have an Irish passport so you can stick it up your Brexity arse.

Secondly, do Brexiteers know they have to buy their way into the EU with a new passport.

Thirdly, see Firstly and fuck off.

If you got extra months added onto your expiry date making it valid for more than 10 years then those extra months are no longer valid (used to be able to add on up to 9 months). You then need 6 months remaining on your passport after removing those extra months for it to be valid for travel

When was your passport issued OP?

So it all depends on your start and end dates on your current passport and whether its valid for more than 10 years

April 2011

In fact F you.

Why complain about having a Uk passport cancelled and then follow it up with 'but I have an Irish one' and basically gloat about it.

What about the rest of us who have have our families ripped apart, didn't vote Brexit, and don't get a spare passport to wave about in people's faces?

PimlicoJo

Pretty honest one.

I'm fucked off with brexit too and all the spin that goes along with it, like the pathetic soy sauce post on twitter by the department of international trade.

So its new valid until date is April 2021
You need 6 months validity prior to April 2021 which would be October 2020 - that would be the latest date you could travel to still have 6 months left

@dementedpixie you are right. It must be because my passport was valid longer than 10 years.
@Yorkshirelass04 , yeah, I know it's shit.

Never has it been a better time to be Irish... Kind of ironic for those with Irish parents who came to the UK in the sixties, when there was no advantage to an Irish passport.

Although the changes don't take place until December so you could travel between October and December but not after that.

This is specific to your passport and the change in validity rules that happened in September 2018

@bellinisurge

April 2011

Then that's the reason. You got extra months added making the passport valid for more than 10 years, thoae months are no longer valid. To allow for the 6 months validity your passport can only be a max of 9.5 years old. I think this might also apply to the rest of the world, not just the EU but not completely sure.

I've just filled it in as if my passport was running out in Feb 2022. And it's told me I can use it to go to France until August 2021

It's when its valid from thats important though

bellinsurge are there any disadvantages to having 2 passports? I’m thinking of getting an Irish one and putting my 2 children on the foreign births register (my mum and dad, and husband’s mum & dad are Irish) so they can get one if they want. (They work in science research which I reckon will be hit by loss of EU funding). Just wondering if there are any pitfalls to claiming it? Do you know by chance?

Ah, just caught up and saw the explanation for you, OP.

@bellini are you deliberately being obnoxious?

There are no disadvantages to having dual nationalities. We have dual nationalities in my family and we didn’t even renew our British passports as we will just travel on our EU passports now.

I’m not a Brexiteer but the queues to get back in through Gatwick have always been really long (albeit in the family queue).

The passport expiry thing is annoying though, especially for a kids passport which is only for 4.5 years now I guess.

@bellinisurge

April 2011

Well there you are then. It is valid until April 2021, but as you need 6 months on your passport to visit the EU it won't be valid for the last 6 months.

I am as exasperated as anyone about Brexit, and double exasperated with extra eye rolls and added venom at the thick twats moaning that post-Brexit they won't be able to join the fast track EU queues, but I really don't get your issue at all.

@Callipygion I guess it depends on the other nationality. In your case , I'd do it. It's a bit fiddly and a bit costly (and, frankly, easier if you do it through male relatives where there have been no name changes (both mum and I changed our names on getting married and I had to get proofs of this).
However, you can do it mostly online now because of changes made to their processes following COVID.

Can anyone answer this for me at all? DM (who voted for brexit so it pisses me off that she is doing this) is in the process of getting Irish citizenship and passport. Her siblings already have this as their grandparents were born in Ireland. Does the line stop there or once your parents have it, you can get it too?

@RainingBatsAndFrogs I don't have an issue. I've had to endure lots of pro Brexity shit; lots of "we can have our cake and eat it" crap and so I am just being a bit childish, sticking two fingers up at how tricky/inconvenient it's going to be for lots of Brexiteers.

Well this was a pointless thread wasn’t it

@BibbityBobbityBellend , it stops at grandparents born in Ireland. Even then the grandchildren have to first get on the Foreign Birth Register before they can get a passport.
My mum and dh's dad were born in Ireland so we are both are automatically citizens and eligible for an Irish passport. Dd had to apply to get in the foreign birth register.

[quote bellinisurge]@dementedpixie you are right. It must be because my passport was valid longer than 10 years.
@Yorkshirelass04 , yeah, I know it's shit. [/quote]
This has been all over the papers for months, and really isn’t difficult to understand..

And they call leavers thick.