Martin Lewis issues urgent passport warning before summer 2022 holiday season

Finance expert Martin Lewis has reissued an urgent warning to anyone with a passport who is due to go abroad this year. The MoneySavingExpert is continuing to emphasise the importance of checking your passport in his money-saving newsletter, and has said holidaymakers must check these two crucial things before they set foot on that plane.

Millions have already booked a summer holiday this year and more than 60,000 others are planning to leave UK shores this year, according to Martin Lewis's Twitter poll. In order not to get caught out during your holiday he has advised to check your passport for these two things to avoid possible problems.

Travellers must check their passport has under six months left or be over ten years old before they go as renewals can take months. He said: "Brexit means more countries now require UK passports to have months left on them, and be under 10 years old, to let you in.

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"If you need to renew, go quick, as the UK Passport Office is over-burdened and under-resourced. It says to allow 'up to 10 weeks' to get a passport, but I'm hearing it's taking even longer for some, and paying to 'fast-track' isn't an option for many as there are few appointments."

The warning comes just a couple of weeks after the finance expert explained how third-party websites charge a fee to process your passport application. Speaking on ITV, he said: “What happens is on search engines, at the top, you will see something and it will say 'ad'.

“But we do not notice the ad because certainly Google has changed over the years. In the past, it would scream at your 'advert! advert! advert!'.

"Now you don't know it is an advert. So what these companies do,