THE UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has launched a social media campaign asking British travellers WhereDoYouKeepYours? to promote the importance of keeping passports safe.
Although most trips abroad are problem-free, tens of thousands of people last year lost their passport or had them stolen.
John Heppenstall, head of consular campaigns at the FCO said: ‘Passports are essential for travelling and it is important to take care of them. Although most holidaymakers do, a lot of consular time could be saved if more people treated their passport as something as valuable as their phone or wallet.
‘We also see people travelling who are not aware that certain countries require a UK passport holder to have six months of validity left on their passport from the date of entry, and even up to two blank pages in your passport.
More than 20,600 UK passports were reported as lost or stolen around the world last year.
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