While the Embassy web site has the accurate information its trying to prove it to the jobs worth on the check in desk at the airport I wouldn't fancy Just imagine if they refused to let your child fly. I would go for the safe option and get those passports renewed.
Molly,
If you go on the US Embassy website it shows the following;
"if travelling under the visa waiver program the passport must be valid for at least 90 days from the date of entry . If not, the holder will be admitted until the expiration date on the passport"
Therefore, you are fine but take a copy of the website info with you as the airlines sometimes need convincing . It happened with us with BA last year .
Neil
we are in the same position the kids passports expire in may. the tickets came from charter travel/virgin today and in the literature it refers to the 6 month rule, we were going to dash to durham where i believe you can pay about £70 extra to get them within a couple of hours - interesting
Trev
Both myself and my son have flown to the US with 2 months left on mine and only 6 weeks on my sons passport. We had no problem at all and were told by the guy on the desk that as long as it was valid on the day you fly back to the UK that was all they were interested in.
Pam.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote: we are in the same position the kids passports expire in may. the tickets came from charter travel/virgin today and in the literature it refers to the 6 month rule, we were going to dash to durham where i believe you can pay about £70 extra to get them within a couple of hours - interesting[/quote]
I think quite a few of the airlines/travel companies have yet to modify their literature to reflect the new ruling that removes the 6 month rule.
Having said that I am not certain of the position of visitors from countries that require a Visa as they do not qualify under the Visa Waiver programme. It could be that Virgin might be flying visitors from, say, Outer Mongolia to the USA and the 6 month rule applies to them.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by dodgey memory
While the Embassy web site has the accurate information its trying to prove it to the jobs worth on the check in desk at the airport I wouldn't fancy Just imagine if they refused to let your child fly. I would go for the safe option and get those passports renewed.
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100% agree with this comment - having been victim of jobs-worth check in staff recently. My son-in-law was refused boarding by Delta a few weeks ago and we had to go without him. When I checked with immigration in the US they official said he would have admitted him - no problem.
For peace of mind - get the passports renewed. Believe me - if there is a problem at check in it will be awful for you. If your flight happens to be overbooked you'll be an easy target.
Carole
I agree, always check the passport, it isn't worth the disappointment of a cancelled trip[msnsad]
ALR
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