So... my passport is about to expire

[photomile 101]

We filed, and it was received today, however being sat in Toronto right now for my flight I've just noticed my passport is due to expire in December 2012. I'm the UK beneficiary.

It'll need to be renewed but will this cause a problem at all for us since there are some copies of my entry stamp visa in the old passport?

Thanks!

[HeatDeath 430]

If the UK passport office's processes are anything like Canada's, they'll have a mechanism for you to renew your passport by mail. They'll have you send in the application, and your old passport, and payment. Then they mail you back the new passport.

What you are hoping is that they have an option (a checkbox on the form) that will enable you to request that they send your old passport back with the new one. I did this when I renewed my passport last summer. They sent back the old one with two holes punched in it, stamped "Canceled."

I did this because I wanted my old passport with the used K-1 visa back for sentimental purposes. If I hadn't cared to get it back it would have made no difference: once you get your AOS approved, no one will ever want to see the used K-1 visa ever again, except you.

Another poster here had to renew her passport, and her old passport contained a still-valid Nigerian visa she was still going to use. She made sure she got the old passport back, showed both at the Nigerian PoE, and had no problems. If that worked for her, then the canceled passport will work for whatever you still need it for after you get the new one, as long you request that the passport office return it to you [assuming they do that, but I'd be very surprised if they don't].

[Emmysaur 29]

We filed, and it was received today, however being sat in Toronto right now for my flight I've just noticed my passport is due to expire in December 2012. I'm the UK beneficiary.

It'll need to be renewed but will this cause a problem at all for us since there are some copies of my entry stamp visa in the old passport?

Thanks!

I don't think it will cause any problem. I renewed my passport a week after my fiance submitted our petition. Just keep your old passport with you.

[photomile 101]

I don't think it will cause any problem. I renewed my passport a week after my fiance submitted our petition. Just keep your old passport with you.

Thanks all, I'm going to go ahead and get a replacement passport now and keep the old, so 2x valid passports. When in doubt....

[venusfire503 54]

I suggest making copies (or scans if possible) of the important pages of the 'old' passport before sending it. You can never be too careful....

venusfire

[HeatDeath 430]

Thanks all, I'm going to go ahead and get a replacement passport now and keep the old, so 2x valid passports. When in doubt....

Clarification: It won't actually be 2 valid passports. The passport office will cancel the old one - you can only have one valid passport per country at any given time. They will send you a brand new, valid passport, and your old passport, which will be canceled and not at all valid by itself.

Apparently, as in the experience of the person I mentioned above, cancelling a passport does not cancel still-valid visas in that passport. I guess.

But that doesn't apply to you, since your K-1 visa became void once you entered the US with it anyways.

Also, do follow the advice above and make a complete colour photocopy of all pages (including the blank ones) and the covers of your passport before you send it in. You never know when that might come in handy.