Hi.
In a potential mess of my own making really . With two months remaining on both our passports I decided on 11th May to do online renewals . ( wet afternoon nothing better to do ). Very simple process and my new passport arrived promptly forty hours later . However my wifes passport has failed to arrive and the online tracker shows a processing date of May 25th . It so happens that we are due to fly to Portugal early on the morning of 25th .
My question is . Will her existing passport be valid up until the date the new one is issued and if so can we travel on 25th on old passport and have new one sent to us by family for our return trip if it arrives while we are away.
My big fear is that new passport will issue on 24th thereby invalidating the old one but will not be delivered in time.
Thanks for reading.
In a potential mess of my own making really . With two months remaining on both our passports I decided on 11th May to do online renewals . ( wet afternoon nothing better to do ). Very simple process and my new passport arrived promptly forty hours later . However my wifes passport has failed to arrive and the online tracker shows a processing date of May 25th . It so happens that we are due to fly to Portugal early on the morning of 25th .
My question is . Will her existing passport be valid up until the date the new one is issued and if so can we travel on 25th on old passport and have new one sent to us by family for our return trip if it arrives while we are away.
My big fear is that new passport will issue on 24th thereby invalidating the old one but will not be delivered in time.
Thanks for reading.