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10 Year Passport Rule
According to Simon Clader (The Independent’s travel correspondent) over 100,000 Brits could lose their holiday – another Brexit benefit.
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Hymie: "And once British passport holders require a visa to visit EU countries, I reckon more than 100,000 will lose their holiday (they, still thinking they could travel freely, as they have done for over 40 years)." - You seem to thing we are helpless victims. Anything they can do we can do, if it hurts us it hurts them. Once they stop throwing the toys out we can cooperate again.
To be clear, it matters not whether members and non-members had different rules; the option for dealing with any other nation is a choice by the authorities. They were at the negotiation table for post Brexit agreements, they were capable of setting rules for a past member however they wanted. Otherwise the argument is akin to, "More than my job's worth, guv". But as we all witnessed, the EU were not willing to make things as mutually advantageous as they might.
I fail to see the problem here. This has always applied to countries we travel to outside the EU so its not as if its nothing new.
As for visa's, what is the issue. Always have to do one for the US, it really is no big deal.
Personally I dont think we should follow suit though unless it becomes a problem with EU citizens not leaving after their holiday.
"All anyone needs to do is check their passport dates are in order - and you'd do that when travellng anyway - wouldn't you?"
According to Simon Calder up to 100,000 folk a year could be prevented from travelling.
Either they've not checked their passports or have misunderstood the rules.
The BBC thinks it's newsworthy and if one person has been made aware of or reminded about the rules and applies for a new passport as a result of this thread, that has to be a positive.
36 replies to an issue that has been on here many times before. Many countries had always had a "rule" that passports had to have a length of time before expiration for the date you would return home no matter where you were from. In the US a Registered Alien had to have proof their taxes were up to date if they were leaving for vacation in April. The problem has been that some UK airlines were all interpreting the 10 year rule differently
When my wife left school after A levels she whisked her way ,all on her own, from Cradley Heath to the big city. She was17 years old. All alone she found the Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square and bought herself a visa. She then travelled solo to Ibizia where she found lodgings with an Ibezian family with a young daughter. She was allowed to work on the Island and found work in a Spanish hotel in the Travel Agency department by reception. She speaks Catalan like a native.Three years later she returned to the UK where she trained as a nurse and was often called upon for her translation skills in the hospital. We still have her Spanish expiredvisa today.
If a young slip of a girl can get herself a visa in a city she had never visited and get to Ibezia where she found accomodation and work then surely it is not beyond the wit of normal people to do the same though I can understand Hymie and Gulliver find it an ordeal and very taxing. Incidentally. My wife and the family's little girl taught each other their respective languages for which her Mum and Dad were very grateful.
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