When going on a trip that involves leaving the country, be sure to check the status of your passport , or rather the period of its validity, so as not to be in a deadlock. Especially it concerns meetings with business partners, visits to relatives or holidays with family. Before you escape to a travel agency or embassy for a visa for a trip, check when the validity of your passport expires.
Of course, all the owners of the old passport know that the document is 10 years old, so confidently and calmly going on a trip. Sometimes there are situations when the validity of the passport expires a few months after the planned journey, so there would seem to be nothing to worry about. But it only seems so!
Different countries - different requirements
The fact is that the lion's share of foreign embassies of the visa ( Schengen including) is issued only if the validity of the passport is not completed before a certain date after the entry visa is received. So, for a number of countries, the minimum period of validity of a passport must be three months, and for others - and at all six months! For example, having a passport that will be valid until March next year, you decided to visit France or the USA in late December to celebrate Christmas here and celebrate the New Year. And, despite the fact that you are going to return after just two weeks, the embassy will most likely refuse to issue a visa. These are the requirements for the validity of the passport from different countries! That is why it is strongly recommended that you work on extending the validity of your passport in advance in time to receive a new one.
Cancellation of a foreign passport
If checking the expiration date of a passport (biometric, with a chip or an old one) has shown that it is time to exchange it, then it is necessary to contact a specialized service that issues such documents. In Russia, for example, this is the responsibility of the Federal Migration Service, and in the United States - the consular department of the State Department. In addition, in fact, the term, in the passport may end up free pages on which visas are applied. Sometimes, for various reasons, the document is in an inappropriate condition (severe abrasions, blurriness and other damage). In such cases, it is necessary to issue a new foreign passport, having canceled the previous document.
It happens this way: first, the passport number is cut off, then the photograph is drilled in several places right through. Experts believe that even an annulled passport should not be thrown away, because there are many marks with visas in it, that
Due to the fact that many foreign embassies require citizens who want to visit their country to have a passport that will be valid for half a year after the trip is completed, or at least three months after the end of the visa period, many tourists face problems, connected with the forced need to urgently draw up a new foreign passport. Rid yourself of this kind of problems, in advance of worrying about a document proving your identity. Only in this case the journey will bring you exceptionally positive emotions and an ocean of new impressions!