Afternoon all
I’ve just recently realised my passport runs out towards the end of January so I need to renew it, thing is I live in Norway so it seems it will take a little longer than the usual time if I were in the UK.
I will need my passport until the 25th of November as i’m travelling to Sweden and back and then I planned to travel to the UK for Christmas (likely just before the 25th December) and then back to Norway just after new year. The way I see it i’ve three options.
1) Risk sending off for a new one while in Norway and hope it arrives back in time for me to travel home for xmas.
2) Spend 2-3 weeks at home in the UK over xmas and new year and send off for a new passport whilst there
3) Travel back to Norway after new year and send off for a new passport once i’m back home and know I definitely won’t need it.
Questions I have to make a decision are – Does anyone have any real world times of how long passport renewal might take from abroad? (Gov website says 4-6 weeks). Do you think the border controls in the EU/Norway will net me back in to the country if I only have a few weeks left before my passport expires?