Keep calm and check your passport dates
The IndependentSign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The then transport secretary, Grant Shapps, had spent much of the previous two years imposing a boggling array of ill-thought-out travel restrictions that included the unprecedented suppression of the freedom to travel for 19 weeks in 2022 and the ludicrous “amber-plus” categorisation of France in the summer of 2021, which ruined countless holidays for no purpose at all. Even so, says Abta, 62 per cent of British people have been on a foreign holiday since the lifting of the UK’s Covid travel restrictions. Like last year, people will be scrambling for appointments being added each day.” The biggest problem is “panic renewals” caused because of uncertainty about the rules on passport validity. The Independent has produced comprehensive guides to post-Brexit passport rules for travel to the European Union and wider Schengen Area, as well as the differing rules on passport expiry dates worldwide.
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