How long is your passport valid for?
 

I'm wondering how long are adult passports from around the world vaild for. And whether Canada is the only country that issues 5 years passports.

Canada - 5 years
US - 10 years

What passport do you hold and how long is it good for?

Also keep a 6 month buffer in mind.... If it expires within 6 months, some (?) countries won't let you enter with it.

UK passport (British citizen) is valid for 10 years.

The child passport is valid for 5 years, but can be extended for another 5 when you supply a new photo.

My mother's Indian passport is valid 20 years from issue.

She has been lucky not to get in trouble because of it, but the Indian Embassy in Washington has recorded at least 11 cases (most notably the high profile case of Rayan Babu Yellina who spent 28 days in an El Paso detention center) of Indian citizens being detained by US DHS officials simply because passports of 20 year validity are considered "suspicious".

Australian - 10 years

Greek- 5 years (with a reduced fee option for 1 year passport)

Mind you, passports in the EU are fast losing their relevance. They are not needed for intra-Schengen travel and national ID cards are considered valid documents for extra-Schengen (but intra-EU/EEA) travel. Therefore Europeans only need a passport if travelling outside the 30 or so countries regulated by the above arrangements.

Germany
10 years for people age 26 and older, 5 years for under 26.

That's just on paper, when travelling into many EU countries you still need passports (Estonia for example), regardless of nationality. So the passport is stilll extremly important to keep you from getting into trouble with border checkpoints.

My primary US passport carries a 10-year validity. My second US passport was initially valid for two years, renewable annually after that.

I once had a passport (either US or Canadian i cant remember) that was only valid for 1 year because i was turning 16 in a few months.

NZ 10 years but reportedly moving to 5 at some stage (memo to self - check out when).

Why do you have two US passports?

You used to be able (when the EU was the EEC, and Schengen just an obscure town) to get a British Visitors' Passport at the Post Office, on presenting ID (not even photo ID). It required no proof of nationality, and was valid for travel to selected European countries for 1 year.

Doesn't exist any more.

Now, in the EU, you can travel to most other EU countries on an accepted form of national ID. This, of course, is only useful if you country has any form of national ID. Mine certainly doesn't...

As I was looking into an Indian Visa I saw a notice that they are phasing out the 20 year passport and going to the semi-standard 10.

This may be off topic, but how much did you passport cost? New US passports are now $100 - and by Dec 2007, you´ll need one for every border crossing in the US.

Singapore
 

Read in the news somewhere that Singapore is reducing passport validity to 5 years so that new technology (biometrics) can be rolled out faster. Also Singapore is one of the few countries which would be meeting the US VWP deadline for biometric passports.

Cost is S$50, about US$30.