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travel to italy with a soon to be expired Canadian passport?
I am a Canadian citizen with permanent residence (I-551) and living in the United States. I will be traveling to Italy for 10 days. My passport expires 6 weeks, but the trip to Italy will be well inside that time frame with a month to spare. I heard of a minimum of 3 months passport validity for traveling, but does anyone know how strict it is? Or is there a waive of that regulation (especially given my Canadian citizenship?) any help would be greatly appreciated, since I travel in 24 hrs.
Public Comments
- Airlines will not let you board with this little time left on your passport. Your nationality does not change anything .It is strict.
- Italy does not impose a three months minimum passport validation for visa-free travellers. Your passport must be valid to enter Italy. Since it also needs to be valid for return back home it simply needs to cover your travel period. Those three or six months minimum passport validation are a relic of a time without the means of electronic paperwork communication, nowadays only still applied for in developing countries or in Asia. Source(s): http://www.timaticweb.com/cgi-bin/tim_website_client.cgi?SpecData=1&VISA=&HEALTH=&page=both&NA=CA&AR=US&DE=IT&VT=US&EM=US&PASSTYPES=PASS&user=SKYWEB&subuser=SKYWEB1 .. http://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/view/10618/ ..
