Hirsty_78

My passport was ready to expire in October and my interview is at the end of February, meaning that if I am successful in the interview I won't be flying out until mid-March.

As the embassy interview instructions require you to have 6 months minimum upon your passport, I have renewed my passport. One thing that I noted is that the passport number is different.

I was planning on taking the old passport with copy along as well.

Has anyone experienced this? Could it be an issue? I have noted from threads that visa holders with expired passports take their old passports with them when travelling., therefore I am assuming that this shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Noorah101

It's not an issue.

Rene

ian-mstm

If the visa is in your new passport, you don't need the old one at all.


This is largely irrelevant - you're still the same person. It would be different if the visa was in the old passport.

Ian

Hirsty_78

It is more that I have previously had to submit copies of my passport and my passport number.

drunner

If you hold a British passport the 6-month rule doesn't apply, but going forward you will need to carry both passports - the one with the visa in it & the new one

Whatever passport number you gave when you submitted the application, that's the one that the visa goes in to

ian-mstm

Not quite. The 6-month rule still applies but it's not deemed as mandatory.


That's completely mental - would they put a visa in an expired passport? The officer has a handy device for updating the application with the new passport information... a red pen!

Ian

drunner

Of course they wouldn't put a visa in an expired passport, but if you apply & give details of a passport that has, say for arguments sake, 6 months left on it, then that's the one the visa is put into. We are in the same boat, sons passport runs out in July but if he got a new passport before the visa was granted then he would have had to have submitted a New application

I would suggest the OP contacts the Embassy to clarify

Orangepants

Last year, I completed my DS-160 with my passport which had 8 months left on it. I flew to London, renewed my passport on the first day and went to my apt at the consulate the next day with my new passport which had the extra months added on to it and they put the visa in my new passport as the old one had the corner cut off. They updated my record with new passport number on the day. My OH also did this last year.

Hirsty_78

Thank you. I was hoping that would be the case. I will take the old one with me to be on the safe side.

ian-mstm

No, he wouldn't have... because the Consular Officer would have simply amended the existing application.

Ian