{"id":301403,"date":"2025-07-29T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301403\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:25:26","slug":"post-brexit-passport-rule-change-still-catching-out-travellers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301403\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Brexit passport rule change still catching out travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753799126_340_212599-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Manx Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            EU countries will not accept passports issued more than 10 years ago\n        <\/p>\n<p>How long do you have left on your passport? And is it actually enough to get you where you&#8217;re meant to be going on holiday this year?<\/p>\n<p>A post-Brexit passport rule change is still catching out travellers several years on.<\/p>\n<p>Manx Radio heard from a local person who got to the gate of her flight before being told her passport was not valid &#8211; that was despite having several months left on it.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-Brexit,\u00a0travellers from the UK and Isle of Man used to be able to carry up to nine months from an old passport over onto a new one.<\/p>\n<p>But now, EU countries will not accept passports issued more than 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>UK figures show up to 32 million people applied for passports before the new rules, but it is unknown how many have been affected.<\/p>\n<p>Siobh\u00e1n Fletcher spoke to Tony Lawrence from Vannin Travel, who says\u00a0there&#8217;s still a lot of confusion around the new rules:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>                    More from Isle of Man News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture credit: Manx Radio EU countries will not accept passports issued more than 10 years ago How long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,77,2000,299,5187,1699,9458,4884,7910,28157,42452,269,12,6226,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-301403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-fun","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-isle-of-man","18":"tag-manx","19":"tag-manx-news","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-presenters","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114936986133623756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}