Travel to India when passports expiring within 6 months

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My Wife, Daughter, and I are traveling from Washington, Dulles to Bengaluru, India starting from the first week of August and returning in the first week of September. My Wife and I have Green cards while my Daughter is a US citizen with PIO card. Here are the issues. My Wife’s Indian passport expires around Jan 15 2012 while my Daughter’s US passport expires around Nov 10 2011. Assuming I do not get the passports extended, what are the possible problems we might face?

I have 2 possible itineraries. One via Doha using Qatar Airways and the other Option is Dulles (United Airways) – Hyderabad (United Airways) – Bengaluru (United Airways).

What do you think I should do? Has anyone gone through the same situation? Would my Daughter or Wife face issues while leaving from here or returning from India at any point (Dulles, Hyderabad, Bengaluru). Would the Airlines Qatar, United, Jet.) have any issues with the status?
 
I checked with the US passport line and they said that they do not have any issues letting in a US citizen if the passport is expiring.

Please advise.
 
Most countries have joined an agreement to recognize passport validity for an additional 6 months after the printed expiration date. So it's almost never a problem to travel with a valid passport that expires in less than 6 months. However, AFTER the passport expires it is valid only for a one-time use for traveling back to the country of issue.
 
You can enter the US the day your passport expires, and probably past its expiration date IF the airline lets you board. The biggest issue is that, the airline, but if your passport is valid, they shouldn't give you any trouble.

India will also not give your wife issues, though I'm not sure about your daughter.
 
cafeconleche said:
You can enter the US the day your passport expires, and probably past its expiration date IF the airline lets you board. The biggest issue is that, the airline, but if your passport is valid, they shouldn't give you any trouble.

India will also not give your wife issues, though I'm not sure about your daughter.
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Since he is talking about traveling before the passports expire, there will be no problem on either end*. The "expiring in less than 6 months" concern is resolved by the international agreement to recognize passports for 6 additional months. So traveling 1 month prior to the printed expiration date is really equivalent to 7 months before expiration.


*unless one of the in-transit countries has not joined the "additional 6 months" agreement. See http://www.cilawgroup.com/news/2011...d-entry-into-u-s-six-month-club-list-updated/ and http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/104770.pdf
 
Thanks for the clarification. Is there a document I could print out and carry with me which I could show them in such a situation.
 
I have confirmed for sure that my Daughter will not have any issues. But my travel agent booking my tickets mentioned that someone in the same situation as my Wife faced a problem. The person did not have any issues entering India, but while coming back. This person had a green card and the Indian passport had 3 months left. I am not sure if it was the airline/immigration officials, but they said to travel out of India that person should have at least 6 months left.
 
If the OP sees this, can you let me know what your experience was in the end? My son is in a near identical situation with dates as your daughter was and I was just researching whether we would have any problems with our travel plans. Only difference is that my son has OCI status. Over all I cannot really see why he would have problems since he has the OCI but who knows.
 
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