Does every country require that passports be valid for 6 months beyond your intended stay?
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no.
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Twice have I entered countries with less than six months on my passport that techinically demanded it - once since 9/11. I had no problems.
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I think so. I had a friend from the UK that allways went to canada to renew his passport on his work visa every 6 months.
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No. It can be no extra time beyond the intended stay, or 'longer' than 6 months is possible, depending on nationality of traveller and destination.
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But what is the POINT of this 6 month rule ? The result being that this effectively reduces a passport's validity to 5½ years or less, from the time you apply for the thing....
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I don't believe the US has that rule, by the way.. or they may have changed it in recent years.. My brother in law entered the US a few years ago on a business trip and he only had about 2 weeks left on his passport.. they stamped the passport for the date at the end of the 2 weeks and sent him through. The country I live in has a rule that their passports must have at least 6 mths valid on them to be able to travel out of the country (which does mean that the passports are really only valid for 4 1/2 years rather than 5 (as they are renewed ever 5 years.)
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