An adult UK passport is valid for 10 years from the date of issue, and a child UK passport is valid for 5 years.<\/p>\n
Passports must be renewed before this if your appearance changes significantly and permanently, or if you change your name.<\/p>\n
Most countries require a minimum of 6 months before the passport expiry date, in order to pass through a point of entry. Most EU countries require only that the passport be valid for 1 day beyond the length of your stay, but this changes and should be checked before travelling.<\/p>\n
The UK is not part of the Schengen Zone, and so UK citizens have to produce a passport when entering any EU country at a monitored point of entry such as an airport or sea port. Land crossings – road, rail etc. – within the EU are largely unmonitored and unrestricted travel is usually possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expiry Dates An adult UK passport is valid for 10 years from the date of issue, and a child UK passport is valid for 5 years. Passports must be renewed before this if your appearance changes significantly and permanently, or if you change your name. International Requirements Most countries require a minimum of 6 months… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/788\/revisions\/1395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persofoto.com\/lexicon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}