savannah_boy

Hi everyone, I am a green card (permanent resident) holder and a UK citizen living in the USA. I am planning a trip to the UK in next month or two. My UK passport has about 6 months left on it.

My questions are:
1 - Does it matter to homeland security that I have 6 months or less left on my UK passport considering that I have a green card which has several more years on it?
2 - Do I need to renew my UK passport in advance to clear the 6 months (before any travel?)

Thanks in advance

sun_burn

I see this as two separate matters - your eligibility to enter the US, and the validity of your passport. The former comes through your green card, which I assume has no pending card expiry date. UK is not among those countries whose passport holders as subject to the 6-month validity rule, so you'd simply travel out and back . What I do not know is, would the airline let you check in for the flight in the UK without causing a fuss.

Regardless, the official blurb:
CBP site
CBP: The Six-Month Club

BritInParis

You haven’t any problems if you simply travelling directly from the US to the UK and back again within the validity period of your passport.

newacct

1. The 6-month requirement applies to entering nonimmigrants with certain passports. You are not entering as a nonimmigrant; there is no such requirement for immigrants. And in fact, as far as the US government is concerned, you can enter on just a valid green card without a passport at all.
2. no

TheAwesomeMatt

It literally takes about 2 weeks to renew a UK passport, if you're worried about its validity.

Olly_

1 - No.
2 - Not if you're just going back to the UK.

I re-entered the US a few months ago as a LPR with two months left on my passport, it's not an issue at all.

Incidentally it took just over two weeks to renew my UK passport from the US. Sadly the UK government has just changed policy and you no longer get the up to 6 months unused time added to your new passport when renewing early.