Will my child’s passport be valid for travel to Ibiza?

Q We need some urgent advice and are really hoping you can help. But I can fully appreciate your concern that it might not be – because the UK government’s online “passport checker” has been wrongly programmed and was generating false results when travellers filled in passport details. Because of a second flaw in the government’s understanding of the rules, wrongly asserting that a passport needs six months remaining, your daughter’s document is incorrectly showing as “Not valid for travel to Europe”. open image in gallery At present Egypt is on the UK’s red list Q I have a holiday booked in Egypt in November and am due to pay the balance on 2 August. The Competition and Markets Authority says: “If the FCDO is advising against travel to the package holiday destination when the consumer is due to leave, that is, in the CMA’s view, strong evidence that these unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances are likely to apply.” If the trip is cancelled, you should be able to claim a full refund within 14 days of the cancellation – as opposed to a “free date change”.