Expiry date

How it is used

British English says expiry date; American English says expiration date. Many countries require a passport to remain valid for several months after the planned departure, often three or six. Booking forms ask for the passport expiry date.

Example sentences

1. What's the expiry date on your passport?

2. Look at the expiry date on your visa: it ends before your return flight.

Common collocations

• passport expiry date
• expiration date
• valid until
• expire on

Related terms

• passportAn official document issued by your country that proves who you are and what nationality you have, and lets you travel abroad.
• visaOfficial permission from a country, usually a sticker in your passport or an electronic record, to enter, stay in or pass through it for a set purpose and time.
• Schengen visaA short-stay visa for the Schengen Area, a group of European countries without regular border checks between them, valid for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• expiry date · Pharmacy & Pharmacology
• expiry date · Immigration & Visas

More terms: Passport Control & Customs

• passport control
• customs
• immigration
• declare
• arrival card
• nothing to declare