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Passport Question

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  • 27-03-2013 10:58am
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    PaddyCar
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,I am travellying to phoenix for 2 weeks in May on an Irish passport. However this passport expires at the end of June. Will there be an issue with my travel plans? SHould i go and renew passport now before i go?Thankspaddy


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    markfinn
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭markfinn


    I just typed "passport expi" into google.ie, it popped up a recommendation of "Passport expiry for USA", the very first hit of which was exactly the answer you need.


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    I'd ignore Google and ask my question on a random message-board in the faint hope that someone would respond.


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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,300 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    PaddyCar wrote: »
    Will there be an issue with my travel plans? SHould i go and renew passport now before i go?Thankspaddy
    Shouldn't be, and yes.


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    PaddyCar
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭PaddyCar


    Thanks for replies. Didnt realise this was a 'random' message board. Is it not for queries relating to travel to the US??


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    Ilovelucy
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭Ilovelucy


    Your passport only needs to be valid for the length of your stay.


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    carly_86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭carly_86


    Your passport actually has to be valid 6 months after you come back


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    tomboylady
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭tomboylady


    carly_86 wrote: »
    Your passport actually has to be valid 6 months after you come back

    This. Definitely renew your passport. It has to be valid for six months after your return date for the US, I think it's 3 months for Europe.


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    PaddyCar
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭PaddyCar


    I cant find any info on the embassy site about the 6 months validity after i return but i think i will go ahead and renew now to be safe


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    carly_86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭carly_86


    Its common knowledge if you ring a travel agent or the airline they will tell you the same thing


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    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    tomboylady wrote: »
    This. Definitely renew your passport. It has to be valid for six months after your return date for the US, I think it's 3 months for Europe.

    Wrong and wrong.

    Only needs to be good until the day your due to leave.


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Ilovelucy wrote: »
    Your passport only needs to be valid for the length of your stay.
    This is correct.
    See OP, if you'd gone to find the information yourself you'd have got non-conflicting information. Now can you find me a link to confirm my view?


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    PaddyCar
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭PaddyCar


    See OP!! Why would i want to see my own post again??


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    carly_86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭carly_86


    Look on Americanrapport.com it will tell you. It is 6 months it has to be valid to get into America


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    PaddyCar wrote: »
    See OP!! Why would i want to see my own post again??
    OP also means Original Poster :cool:


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    PaddyCar
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭PaddyCar


    Yes. And who was the original poster??? Good boy


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    PaddyCar wrote: »
    Yes. And who was the original poster??? Good boy
    You!
    Did you find any definitive link yet?


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    PaddyCar
    Registered Users Posts: 696 ✭✭✭PaddyCar


    No. will you send it on to me. Thanks. Your such a good friend.


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    BuffyBot
    Registered Users Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    carly_86 wrote: »
    Look on Americanrapport.com it will tell you. It is 6 months it has to be valid to get into America

    Erm, no. How about we look at what the US embassy has to say..

    http://dublin.usembassy.gov/consular/validity-of-irish/eu-passports.html


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    carly_86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭carly_86


    BuffyBot wrote: »

    Erm, no. How about we look at what the US embassy has to say..

    http://dublin.usembassy.gov/consular/validity-of-irish/eu-passports.html

    Which ever i was still bloody right


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    lynchie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭lynchie


    carly_86 wrote: »
    Which ever i was still bloody right

    Explain how you were still right?


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    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    carly_86 wrote: »
    Which ever i was still bloody right

    Everything in your post was wrong.


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    carly_86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭carly_86


    I said the passport had to be 6 months valid after ya come back if ya look back through the previous posts


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,441 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    carly_86 wrote: »
    I said the passport had to be 6 months valid after ya come back if ya look back through the previous posts

    You're talking BS, read that link to the US Embassy website again. In particular, can I refer you to the last sentence in the first paragraph....

    An Irish passport need remain valid only for the duration of the holder's stay in the United States.

    I went to the US for Thanksgiving in November 2011 with a passport that expired in Jan 2012, had no issue whatsoever and the agent at US Immigration in Dublin airport didn't even remark on it.

    As long as you GTF out of the US before your passport expires there is no issue.


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    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    carly_86 wrote: »
    I said the passport had to be 6 months valid after ya come back if ya look back through the previous posts

    You did and that information is still not correct.


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    CaliforniaDream
    Registered Users Posts: 813 ✭✭✭CaliforniaDream


    Ilovelucy wrote: »
    Your passport only needs to be valid for the length of your stay.

    This is correct.
    carly_86 wrote: »
    Your passport actually has to be valid 6 months after you come back

    This is not.

    Ireland is one of the countries exempt from the 6 month rule.
    You will not have any issues. I've 1st hand experience of this just like another poster in the thread.


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