Foreign Office updates passport rules for Spain, France, Portugal and 30 other countries

Foreign Office updates passport rules for Spain, France, Portugal and 30 other countries

The Foreign Office has streamlined passport advice for Spain, Portugal, France, Croatia and several other countries.

 Post Brexit rules across 33 countries have preliminarily caught excursionists out, so ahead of the summer leaves the Foreign Office has participated the new regulations.

 Passports for anyone travelling to the Schengen Area need to be no further than 10 times old from the point of issue. still, utmost EU countries also bear your passport to be valid for at least three months after your date of trip.

 The rules can feel relatively confusing, and some Brits have set up themselves caught out and unfit to board breakouts because their documents do not meet all of the necessary criteria.

 According to the Mirror, the new advice reads" If you're planning to travel to an EU country( except Ireland), or Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino or Vatican City, you must follow the Schengen area passport conditions.

" Your passport must be

 â€¢ issued lower than 10 times before the date you enter the country( check the ‘ date of issue ’)

 â€¢ valid for at least 3 months after the day you plan to leave( check the ‘ expiry date ’)

" You must check your passport meets these conditions before youtravel.However, redundant months may have been added to its expiry date, If your passport was issued before 1 October 2018.

" communicate the delegacy of the country you're visiting if you suppose that your passport doesn't meet both these conditions. Renew your passport if you need to."

 Checking your passport's validity is just one of four crucial passport checks that Brits should be made before reserving a vacation. It's not just about meeting your chosen destination's conditions moreover; you will want to leave yourself plenitude of time if you need to get your document renewed.

 before this time the Home Office advised renewals could be delayed by over to 10 weeks due to a backlog caused by the Covid epidemic. Thanks to travel bans and Covid restrictions, it's estimated that millions of UK trippers

 delayed their passport operations in 2020 and 2021.

 

 

Countries with updated travel advice

1.    Andorra

2.    Austria

3.    Belgium

4.    Bulgaria

5.    Croatia

6.    Cyprus

7.    Czech Republic

8.    Denmark

9.    Estonia

10. Finland

11. France

12. Germany

13. Greece

14. Hungary

15. Iceland

16. Italy

17. Latvia

18. Liechtenstein

19. Lithuania

20. Luxembourg

21. Malta

22. Monaco

23. Netherlands

24. Norway

25. Poland

26. Portugal

27. Romania

28. San Marino

29. Slovakia

30. Slovenia

31. Spain

32. Sweden

33. Switzerland