Jayney2

My mother recently broke her hip and I am going to the UK next week to help her out when she comes home from hospital. I am a dual citizen and my UK passport is fine. My US passport expires next March. I am sure I will be fine as I intend to leave the UK back to the USA in November. I wasn't expecting to have to go anywhere and will apply to renew when I get back to the USA. I googled to see recommended timeframe to renew a US passport and it said nine months. Just curious if everyone does this?

BritInParis

Some countries require six months validity in your foreign passport. Providing your US passport is valid when you travel back to the US then you won’t have any problems.

RICH

I have yet to renew my US passport, but I would expect it to take a month give or take a week.
Even if it expires before you return, I would think you will be let in, unless you are not white.

BritInParis

Noorah101

Would he be allowed to board the plane?

Rene

carcajou

Absolutely - there is a lot of racism in the UK and the poster may have some difficulties there, like with denied boarding.

On the American end, US Citizens cannot be denied entry to the US. There may be some delays while they authenticate the passport and that may take a few hours (!). Not what you want after a long transatlantic flight.

You can get an express renewal and I would go that route and just do it now.

BritInParis

What a bizarre post. “There’s a lot of racism in the UK” - no, there’s not and no-one is going to stop the OP boarding a flight based on their race. Trying to board with an expired passport would be a problem for anyone but the OP will be flying back to the US a full five months before their passport expires. It’s simply not going to be a problem.

Rete

If you area US Citizen, the color of your skin makes no difference.

If the passport expires while you are out of the country, you can get a 'white' passport (emergency travel document) at the US Consulate/Embassy. You can also renew it while you're in the UK at the US Embassy. See here: https://uk.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen...ew-a-passport/

A renewal by mail took me 1 week in June.
Sorry your mother broke her hip. That is a big problem for many senior citizens.

Jayney2

That's a good turnaround time frame - thanks. I don't really envisage any problems with having four months left on my return in November and was wondering how quickly I needed to renew. I doubted very much if I would need nine months left on my passport.

Nutmegger

RICH

That's amusing, given the slightly tongue in cheek post I made.

Duncan Roberts

Same here, I think exactly the same number of days. Definitely faster than the 4-6 weeks they quote for standard processing, not sure where the 9 months originally quoted came from. You can renew at any point within 5 years I believe.