Passport expiry and Tier 1 renewal

[jonbca]

My current T1G visa expires on 4 Aug 2012, so I'm planning to send away for renewal around 1 July. My Canadian passport expires in January 2013, so when I send away my application I'll have less than 6 months remaining on my passport.

Is this going to cause any issues with renewal? I understand that in general it's not possible to travel on a passport with less than 6 months validity.

[sts96508]

For T1 extension your passport needs to be valid at time of application, so you should be fine.

Based on current processing times your application should get decided in 10-12 weeks for a postal application, far less for PEO application.

I dont think that there is a travel restriction if six months or less is remaining on your passport. It all depends on when you plan to get back to your home country - that should be before passport expiry

[23367]

In order to be safe, i would suggest to go for Passport renewal. especially with homeoffice it will be better to avoid even the smallest mistake.

i had a similar situation. still thought to renew the passport and then went for visa renewal.