Passport panic - can anyone help please?

[Youarethecarcass]

Due to go toTenerife 2/5/22 coming back 9/5/22
Daughters passport (she’s 8) :
Issue date 7/3/17
Expiry date 7/12/22

Is her passport valid?

Spoke to HMPO 3 times today with 3 different responses:

1. she needs a new passport (although chap also advised he wasn’t really ‘with it’ today??
2. her passport is 100% fine
3. it “should” be ok but they can’t comment and it’s up to the travel company (who funnily enough referred me back to HMPO)

Gov.uk advises this:

Your passport must meet 2 requirements. It must be:

less than 10 years old on the day you enter (check the ‘date of issue’)
valid for at least 3 months after the day you plan to leave (check the ‘expiry date’)

So in theory it’s fine but I know that with passports with months added on eg 10 years + 3 months then the 3 months no longer count. I’m just not sure if that applies to children’s 5 year passports?

Also read this which seems to support that her passport is still ok. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/passport-child-holiday-europe-valid-b1891518.html

I’m totally panicking that I can’t get something definitive. Even fast track slots are filling up and I’ll be looking at the fast track fee together with flight and hotel if her passport isn’t valid but cash is short and I’d rather not go down this route unless I absolutely have to.

Thanks!!

So just seen a very similar post from yesterday. I know - I should have checked but too busy panicking. Feel free to ignore my post!

But her passport is less than 10 years old as it's a kids one and only valid for five years.
And if you come back in may it's valid for another 7 months
So it meets both requirements

No its not valid, because it was issues in March 17, they have added on the extra months that were on the old passport which takes its expiry from March 22 to December 22 but those months now are void since we left the eu. Sorry.

It is valid as it is valid for less than 10 years by virtue of being a child passport. The issue date is only applicable to an adult passport as extra months would take them over the 10 year validity

@Scbchl

No its not valid, because it was issues in March 17, they have added on the extra months that were on the old passport which takes its expiry from March 22 to December 22 but those months now are void since we left the eu. Sorry.

They are not void as the passport is still valid for less than 10 years

I'm following as I 100% would have thought it would be valid. I'd be very surprised if it wasn't, but I'm not an official. It seems to fit all the criteria

Here you go - since we left the eu, the extra months added on from old passports are no longer valid. My old uni room mates daughter couldn't fly at Xmas aa she only had the months added on from the passport left on the passport-
<a class="break-all" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.abta.com/sites/default/files/2019-01/Passports%2520QA-Jan-2019.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjnjbCmkoD3AhWIUMAKHX7HDqwQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3tAX-Bl_nquQtuuRtr4SoM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=www.abta.com/sites/default/files/2019-01/Passports%2520QA-Jan-2019.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjnjbCmkoD3AhWIUMAKHX7HDqwQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3tAX-Bl_nquQtuuRtr4SoM

The extra months on a child's passport are valid as the passport still remains valid for less than 10 years

I think you’re ok because it’s a kids passport not an adult

That link gives lots of wrong info and is from 2019 before we even left the EU. It states 6 months whereas only 3 months are required