Originally Posted by
VH-RMD
However, if you were to travel to country X with seven months left they would let you in, you may stay six weeks and return home so your passport is still valid for your reentry to your home country with less than six months validity.
I don't know of any country which will give its citizens a problem if they re-enter even on the last day of a passport's validity.
In most, in fact, you can re-enter on an expired passport -- although you will run into some headaches and, depending on the country, might be fined.
The six month limitation applies only to countries you want to visit.
My daughter has a flight to the Netherlands next month. Her Israeli passport will expire in less than 6 months. She has to use that passport to exit/enter Israel but because of its pending expiration she will enter the EU on her American passport.