When does this family have to renew anything?
Free, no sign-up. Everything is worked out in your browser — the page makes no network requests after it loads, nothing is stored, and closing the tab discards it. It asks for dates and a name you choose, never a document number.
Most expiry checkers answer for one traveller and one passport. Families do not expire one at a time: there is a passport that lapses in the spring, an ID card nobody has looked at since 2019, a licence, a visa, and a trip in August that quietly depends on all of them. This works out one timeline for the whole household, and gives you the dates as a calendar file at the end.
The two rules that catch people
Your passport usually has to outlive your trip by months. A large group of countries — common across Asia, the Middle East and Africa — want at least six months of validity left. For the Schengen area the requirement is three months beyond the date you intend to leave, and the passport must also have been issued within the previous ten years on the day you enter. That second condition is the one that surprises people: a passport renewed early can carry extra months on the end and still fail.
Count from the day you come home, not the day you fly out. Adding six months to your departure date is the standard mistake — it silently ignores the length of the trip.
The check that actually decides your holiday happens at the airport, where the airline runs your documents against IATA's Timatic database before it will board you. So treat everything below as arithmetic that helps you plan, and confirm the rule for your destination at an official source — gov.uk foreign travel advice or travel.state.gov — before you book.
The checker
Add everyone. Dates only — no document numbers, ever.
How the dates are worked out
- Required-until date. Your return date plus the validity the destination asks for. With the Schengen option this is your return date plus three months; with "valid on arrival" it is simply the day you land.
- Trip verdict. The document passes if its expiry date falls on or after that required-until date. For passports with an issue date entered, it also has to have been issued within the previous ten years on the day you arrive.
- Renew-by date. The expiry date, minus the validity buffer, minus the renewal time you chose. That is the real deadline — and for a six-month country with an 18-week backlog it lands almost a year before the date printed inside the passport.
- Reminders. Calendar entries at 90, 30 and 7 days before expiry, plus one on the renew-by date and one on the expiry date itself. Dates already in the past are skipped.
Source for the Schengen figures: the European Commission's Your Europe guidance for non-EU nationals, read 28 July 2026 — "valid for at least 3 months after the date you intend to leave the EU", issued within the previous 10 years.
What this deliberately does not do
It does not hold a country-by-country rule table. You pick the rule; the tool does the arithmetic. A database of 190-odd countries' entry requirements would rot quietly between the day it was written and the day someone's holiday depended on it, and we would rather do one thing correctly than look comprehensive. The official links above are the source of truth for your destination.
It does not check visas, vaccination requirements or entry bans — only how long a document stays valid.
It does not store anything. There is no account, no cookie, no analytics event carrying your dates. That is also why it cannot remind you itself: a page you closed cannot nudge you next spring. The calendar file is the way the answer survives.
Questions people ask
How do you calculate 6 months of passport validity?
Take the last day of your trip and add six months. The passport's expiry date has to fall on or after that date.
Does the six-month rule count from arrival or from departure?
It varies by destination — some measure from the day you arrive, some from the day you leave. Counting from the day you leave is the safer assumption, because it is never the shorter of the two.
How strict is it really?
Strict enough that it is usually enforced before you reach the border: the airline checks at the desk and can refuse to board you, which is the version of this problem that ruins the holiday rather than the trip.
Does a child's passport work the same way?
The validity arithmetic is the same, but children's passports are typically issued for fewer years, so they come round far more often than the adults' do — which is exactly why the family view is the useful one.
When should I renew?
Take the expiry date, subtract the validity your destination requires, then subtract however long renewal takes where you live. The tool does this for you and calls it the renew-by date.
The part a file cannot do
The calendar file above is a snapshot of one afternoon. It fires on your phone, in your calendar, for the documents you happened to type in today — and if you are the person who did this, it will keep being you, every time, for everyone in the house.
Somiya is a family organizer built on the opposite idea: one person adds something and everyone sees it instantly. Its document shelf is the same 90 / 30 / 7-day nudge, except it lives with the family rather than with you — the reminder reaches whoever actually has to act, your partner sees the renewal without being told about it, and adding next year's passport does not mean coming back here to regenerate a file.
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Entry rules change and renewal times change with them. The arithmetic here does not, but the rule you pick has to be right — check it at an official source before you book. Something wrong on this page? Tell us at hello@somiya.app and we will fix it.