Travel advice regarding passport

[rosesarebeutiful]

We’re traveling to Egypt next month for 10nights from 10th November. I’ve just noticed my passport expires on 16 June 2026. Should I be okay to travel?

Government travel advice website says expiry date needs to be 6 months after date of travel, and it needs to have a blank page.

If it were the EU you were travelling to, you’d need to check that the passport’s issue date wasn’t more than 9 years & 9 months from your date of travel, as they don’t recognise the leftover months from old passport that used to be added on at renewal.

Yes I read this, thank you for your reply. So going on the 10th - 21st November should be okay?

What is the start date on your passport? That would help

@rosesarebeutiful yes - you’re a few weeks in the clear! 6 months is 6 months, and you’ve got 7. The issue date doesn’t matter for Egypt - it says expiry date. The ‘10 years since issue’ is a Schengen thing.

https://www.tui.co.uk/passport-checker

@rosesarebeutiful your passport will have at least 6 months remaining from your arrival date so it is valid for travel

The 10 year rule doesn't apply as you arent travelling in the EU

This is incorrect.

For entry into the Schengen area, the issue date has to be less than 10 years, and the expiry date has to be at least 3 months after the date that the traveller leaves the Schengen area.

The expiry date does not need to be within 10 years of the date of issue if additional months were added when the passport was renewed - there are still many millions of UK passports that had additional months added to the expiry date and these are valid until the expiry date.

For example - from the UK Government's website regarding entry to Austria:
Entry requirements - Austria travel advice - GOV.UK

16/06/2016

Great tool but doesn’t allow me to check for Egypt

Not relevant for Egypt

Only applies for travel in the EU, not Egypt

Sorry, but this is incorrect.

For the EU (formally the Schengen area, but Cyprus applies the same rules, and you don't actually need a passport to go to Ireland) your passport has to:

• Be issued ("Date of issue") less than 10 years before entering the EU
• Expire ("Date of expiry") at least 3 months on the day you intend to leave the EU.

That means that you very much can use the extra days beyond the 10 years, as long as your passport is less than 10 years old (not 9 years and 9 months) on the day you enter the EU.

Here is Simon Calder explaining it and attached is the actual text of the relevant EU law (Regulation 2016/0399).

Here is the UK government's travel advice web page, which says six months validity from the day of arrival and a blank page: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt/entry-requirements

This should be fairly reliable, although they have got one or two wrinkles of the EU process wrong in the past. I've never heard of anywhere being more strict than 6 months from when you arrive anyway, and enough Brits go to Egypt that we would have heard by now if it was something longer.

Apologies for my misrepresentation- didn’t realise the expiry date beyond 10years was acceptable at all for Schengen. Not sure I’d want to risk it, anyway - weren’t there instances of border officials not following those rules?