Originally Posted by
Nick Art
The second story I have is when I went to London and realized my ID card had expired and my passport was only a few days before expiring (It would expire before my return flight). Funnily I had no problems entering the UK at all and on my return they didn't even realize the passport had expired (there was no real passport control somehow...). That's when I learnt from the Swiss embassy that you need to be allowed to return to Switzerland even with a 20 year old expired passport...
Returning to your home country is always easier and the country you hold citizenship is much more lenient, compared you the scenario when you are trying to enter another country / region (such as Schengen) where you are visiting and don't hold that particular passport.