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Urgent passport warning for Brits heading on holiday with the red version

BRITS who still have a red passport are being warned to check the expiry date on their documents being heading on holiday this summer.

Many may find that it is no longer valid – even if they still have months left on it.

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Brits wanting to go on holiday have been warned to check their passport before booking a trip[/caption]

While Brits need just three months left on their passport to travel to Europe, new rules introduced no longer accept the additional 10 months that could previously be added.

This means passports with any additional months on top of the 10 years are not valid.

Blue passports have only been issued since 2020, so anyone with a navy document won’t have to check their passport dates.

Travel company Hays warned on social media: “If your passport was issued prior to the UK leaving the EU with additional months on, those extra months are no longer valid.”

The government website confirms: “​​Your passport must also be less than ten-years-old on the day after you leave.

“If you renewed your current passport before the previous one expired, extra months may have been added to its expiry date.

“Any extra months on your passport over ten years may not count towards the minimum period needed.”

Passenger Abi Campbell was stopped from boarding her flight back earlier this year from to Glasgow from Tenerife after thinking her passport was valid.

Despite expiring in May 2022, the issue date was August 2011 – meaning it is only valid up to August 2021.

The government has also warned that Brits are waiting up to 10 weeks to get a new passport, up from the usual three.

Mobile reminders have been sent to Brits by the government, stating: “Reminder: It takes up to 10 weeks to get a new passport. Don’t leave it too late, renew now.”

This means that holidaymakers wanting to go away, but have to renew their passport, may have to wait until the end of October before getting them back.

Traveller Claire Mochar, who applied on July 16, told the Telegraph they had to cancel their holiday due to the “shambles” as their application hadn’t even been processed three weeks later.

The government’s Fast Track service is also in high demand, meaning families are struggling to get appointments.

The slow process, the government explained, is due to both a surge in applications and many staff still working from home means that the delays are likely to continue.

Last summer, a backlog of 400,000 passports was reported, after more than a million passports expired during the lockdown.

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Passport applications are taking as long as 10 weeks[/caption]


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