{"id":83421,"date":"2025-09-24T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83421\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:17:08","slug":"alert-irish-tourists-warned-new-passport-rules-in-spain-may-mean-they-are-refused-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83421\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: Irish tourists warned new passport rules in Spain may mean they are refused entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rules and regulations surrounding passports and travel documents in Spain may mean that those travelling from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/section\/2219\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ireland<\/a> to the holiday destination are negatively impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A recent update to European travel protocols means that the new rules will come into effect from October.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Irish passport holders will need to ensure their documents are up to date before travelling to Spain or they may be refused entry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new regulation states that all passports must still be in date for at least three months after the date that of arrival in Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It applies to all people travelling to the country whether it is for business, leisure, or any other reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tourists must verify that their passports will remain in date before departure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/national-news\/1902571\/latest-gardai-search-several-homes-and-one-arrested-in-hunt-for-escaped-detainee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LATEST: Garda\u00ed search &#8216;several&#8217; homes and one arrested in hunt for escaped detainee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ireland is among the countries affected by this change as it is not part of the\u00a0Schengen Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The Agreement means allows for passport-free travel throughout the countries involved in it.<\/p>\n<p>Spain is the first country to implement these changes to passport rules but it is expected that other countries may follow suit, according to the Travel and Tour World website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spain is the most popular holiday destination for both Irish and UK tourists.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rules and regulations surrounding passports and travel documents in Spain may mean that those travelling from Ireland to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,2219,13,14,6,8845,11,12,15,16,5,383,7,8,4319,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-83421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-european-union","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-holidays","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-spain","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-travel","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}