6 months validity rule and pre settled status

[passerby]

Hi,

My wife has pre-settled status and her passport expires in 5 months. Can we travel outside the UK and return with her passport. I am pretty sure she can but she insists on some official website to confirm.

Regards.

[alterhase58]

There's no minimum validity period for entering the UK - the only stipulation is that the passport has to be valid - for visitors for the length of their stay. The 6 months rule applies to British passport holders entering the EU.
https://www.gov.uk/uk-border-control/be ... for-the-uk
Note it says: "Your identity document should be valid for the whole of your stay."
Of course British citizens and residents have an open-ended stay (you renew your passport as and when).

[mike2000]

The UK does not have the 6 months validity rule. I recently returned to the UK with 2 months left in my passport, no issues at all