Hi, My husbands UK pasport will expire 7 days after departure from the USA. He has a US Visa that is valid for another 9 years attached to his UK passport. I had a look on the US Embassy website and it said that there is an agreement between the UK and the US that they will allow travel with the unexpired visa and the due to expire UK passport with less than 6 months to run on it. I rang the Embassy to confirm that this was the case and they confirmed it. But, my husband is still worried that there may be a problem on arrival, because he wonders if there is something in writing he can take to show immigration. I have printed off the statement from the US Embassy website to take with us.

If he just had a UK passport, he would definitely have to renew it before we travelled, as it still stands you have to have more than I think it is 6 months left on your UK passport to be allowed to enter the US. Has anyone else been in the same situation with a due to expire UK passport and and valid US Visa attached to it.

We will be going to the US in three weeks. If he sent his old passport off to be renewed with the valid visa in it, he was told he must put a letter with it telling them not to cancel the visa contained in the UK passport, when they cancell the due to expire UK passport. My husband is worried that if he sent off for a new UK passport, the valid visa may get cancelled by mistake.