Passport Validity

[tammytoes 0]

Hey Everyone,

Okay, quick recap of my situation: I'm Canadian, and I'm going to Marry my US Military-Man in Denmark in March 2007.

However, my Canadian passport is due to expire in April 2007. So I obviously need to get a new passport prior to my trip out to Europe. I've never replaced a passport before it expired, so please excuse my (possibly) stupid question:

Can you do that? Can I be reissued another passport when another isn't quite expired it? I'd like to get that done soon, within the next few weeks. Do I have to wait until there is only a certain amount of time left on my passport, or can anyone, at anytime, trade in an old passport for a new one? I realize that I'll still need to go through the whole photo, application, guarantor process..

I'm sorry if this question is slightly off topic, but I wasn't able to find the answer anywhere else online. You guys know everything about passports!

Edited October 19, 2006 by tammytoes

[payxibka 10,044]

Hey Everyone,

Okay, quick recap of my situation: I'm Canadian, and I'm going to Marry my US Military-Man in Denmark in March 2007.

However, my Canadian passport is due to expire in April 2007. So I obviously need to get a new passport prior to my trip out to Europe. I've never replaced a passport before it expired, so please excuse my (possibly) stupid question:

Can you do that? Can I be reissued another passport when another isn't quite expired it? I'd like to get that done soon, within the next few weeks. Do I have to wait until there is only a certain amount of time left on my passport, or can anyone, at anytime, trade in an old passport for a new one? I realize that I'll still need to go through the whole photo, application, guarantor process..

I'm sorry if this question is slightly off topic, but I wasn't able to find the answer anywhere else online. You guys know everything about passports!

Yes you absolutely can. In fact you should if you are within 6 mos of expiry. Many countries wil not give you a visa or even allow you entry if you are within that time frame.

[Candace 2]

Hi Tammy,

I can't tell you for a Canadian passport, but for a British passport if you are replacing an unexpired passport you do not need your photos signed etc like you do for a new passport. I got a renewal of my passport early last year and just had to send off the old passport and the pictures. If you are unrecognisable from your old photo, you will have to get it signed, but in my case I didn't. Obviously Canada might be different. I got my name changed only five months later (how annoying to have to pay the outrageous fee again, but that was how the timing worked out) and again I needed new photos but did not need them witnessed.

Also, if you are renewing a passport with time left on it, a British Passport will have the time left added to the ten years of the new passport, to a maximum of nine months.

That info is of course neither use nor consequence if Canada is different

~Candace