Quote Originally Posted by tone View Post
Hi everyone hoping you can provide some clarity on the following:-
Rina is going to Manila on 12th may with our 18 month old.
Her Filipino passport expires 2 November 14.
I assume we will need to renew the passport as it doesn't have 6 months on it when leaving the Uk?
The passport is currently in her maiden name and because changing the flights already booked in maiden name means the renewal will have to stay in maiden name.

The bugger of this is that in August she will eligible for British citizenship so to get he a British passport in her married name what do we have to do?
I realise the BRP will have to be sent back and renewed to married name.

Think that's it for now! Next will be the process of dual citizenship for her and Little one.
Tone
Tone,
There's been a number of people here who have travelled to Philippines from UK on a short validity Phils passport. As far as I know without problems, from my memory only ALL had a written letter of confirmation from the Philippine Embassy.

These days airlines have really tightened up on their check-in and boarding procedures.

Rightly or wrongly people DO get prevented from travelling for no proper reason.

It's a weakness of having the decisions of such importance being made at too low a pay grade.

I'm sure you can imagine the problems if travelling is prevented by an ill-informed airline employee. Not a pleasant situation and nothing much you can do about it at the time.

Personally, I think you have time enough to renew that passport and minimise risks.

The worst case scenario is that the new passport is somehow delayed and you need to organise emergency travel documents from the Embassy. I doubt that will happen.

Just for the record she could travel on her passport to her home country with just 1 day validity.

Out of curiosity who is the carrier?
If it were PAL there'd be no issues at all.

The other consideration when transiting a flight connection is if anything unexpected happens at the interchange airport when different airlines are involved.

Just my opinion.