A family was turned away from the airport after a big change in passport rules post-Brexit.
After spending £3,000 on a foreign getaway, one family's holiday was cut short after a not so obvious passport problem arose. Heading to Algarve, the Gurd family were stopped at the airport despite all of their documents being valid and in order.
Mum Nina Gurd was prevented from travelling due to her passport being issued on 29 May, 2012 - reports the BBC. Portugal is one of 26 European countries within the Schengen Area of free movement and, post-Brexit, requires passports to be no more than 10 years old.
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Nina assumed her passport would be okay as it was still in date and even had more than three months to the expiry date some countries request. Nina's passport was originally issued on 29 May 2012, meaning it would have been due to expire next month, but when she renewed it in 2012 that was done early - meaning nine months were added to the document, giving it a new expiry date of 28 February 2023.
But when she got to the airport she was told the expiry date is meaningless. Nina said: "The lady at Bournemouth Airport said it needs to be within 10 years of the issue date."
Nina, husband John and their sons Jack, Harry and Charlie, went home instead of to Portugal. Nina said: "When we were booking our holiday, we were only ever asked for our passport numbers and the expiry dates, nothing else. "But the expiry date is apparently meaningless."
