Passport expiration and Schengen rules
Jan 7, 2024 | 9:12 am
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Passport expiration and Schengen rules
Planning road trip starting in Italy and going into Switzerland (maybe France via Geneva). Flying in and out of Venice. My US passport will expire 92 days after my departure home from Venice. Should I anticipate any problems or does this just narrowly conform to all the rules?
Jan 7, 2024 | 1:27 pm
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Planning road trip starting in Italy and going into Switzerland (maybe France via Geneva). Flying in and out of Venice. My US passport will expire 92 days after my departure home from Venice. Should I anticipate any problems or does this just narrowly conform to all the rules?
- Your passport Date of Issue must be less than 10 years before the date of entry into the Schengen Area
- Your passport must have 3 months validity remaining on the day you leave the Schengen Area
Jan 8, 2024 | 7:28 am
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Those long delays are in the past now. Many recent (non-expedited) renewals for US passports are being delivered in ~2 weeks, and the published time on the website is <2 months. Strongly recommend just renewing the passport in a few months from now and not worry about it.
Jan 8, 2024 | 7:53 am
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Its not really fare to use what happened nearly 4 years ago as being the current situation.
Jan 14, 2024 | 4:48 pm
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Jan 17, 2024 | 6:31 am
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I refer you to post 5.
And also the thread on the US destination board where people are reporting quick turnarounds,
Current US passport wait? (Merged Threads)
Bur I dont know why Americans put up with such shoddy service. In the UK the main delays are caused by the postal service getting your old passport to HMPO and not in producing the passport. The next biggest cause of delay is down to people not submitting the required documents in a timely manner.
And also the thread on the US destination board where people are reporting quick turnarounds,
Current US passport wait? (Merged Threads)
Bur I dont know why Americans put up with such shoddy service. In the UK the main delays are caused by the postal service getting your old passport to HMPO and not in producing the passport. The next biggest cause of delay is down to people not submitting the required documents in a timely manner.
Jan 17, 2024 | 10:19 am
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I refer you to post 5.
And also the thread on the US destination board where people are reporting quick turnarounds,
Current US passport wait? (Merged Threads)
And also the thread on the US destination board where people are reporting quick turnarounds,
Current US passport wait? (Merged Threads)
You wrote that: "It’s not really fare to use what happened nearly 4 years ago as being the current situation." I simply pointed out that there were long delays as recently as this past summer. My "expedited" renewal with express mailing in July, 2023, took a month. People who did not pay for expedited processing experienced processing times as long as 12-13 weeks. It's now down to under two weeks for expedited renewals and as little as three weeks for regular renewals.
Jan 23, 2025 | 9:14 pm
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So is it correct that you need at least three months of validity on a passport to enter the Schengen area as non-Schengen passport holder (i.e., a USA issued passport). Some U.S. State Department websites say six months. So there is a conflict.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizen...s/index_en.htm
versus
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...ngen_Area.html
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizen...s/index_en.htm
versus
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...ngen_Area.html
Jan 23, 2025 | 10:33 pm
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So is it correct that you need at least three months of validity on a passport to enter the Schengen area as non-Schengen passport holder (i.e., a USA issued passport). Some U.S. State Department websites say six months. So there is a conflict.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizen...s/index_en.htm
versus
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...ngen_Area.html
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizen...s/index_en.htm
versus
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...ngen_Area.html