Valid Visa on Expired Passport

[sirlim]

Hello again! My passport is due to expire in a a year's time. Given the wait times for a new passport, I decided to renew it early. The new passport will arrive sometime in January. I also applied for a Schengen Visa with the French embassy and they gave me one with a six-month validity period. My question is if I will be able to use this still valid Schengen visa attached to my old passport to travel to France once the new passport is issued?

[seekingadvice87]

In my experience, when I applied for a new passport, my embassy cancelled the old passport without prejudice because it was still valid and had valid visas in it. I was allowed to travel with both passports old (to show valid visas) and new. I don't think having more than one current passport is allowed but I guess an exception may apply for certain professions.

If you're not sure and I won't be surprised if certain countries required you to have the valid visa in your current passport requiring you to then transfer your visa into your new passport. Might as well check with the country you're travelling to.

[sirlim]

Just to clarify that once the new passport is ready, the old passport will be cancelled. The schengen visa however remains valid. So my question is if the valid schengen visa on the expired passport by then is still honoured.

[cs95tdg]

You may want to contact the consulate that issued the schengen visa to verify.

But in general my understanding is that you would be allowed to travel with a new passport, carrying the old one which contains the visa vignette along with it. That's certainly allowed when entering the UK on a UK visa, where your visa is affixed in your old passport. I've done this several times in the past. When stamping the new passport on entry, the IO just makes a comment VIPP (visa in previous passport) along side the entry stamp.

[seekingadvice87]

You may want to contact the consulate that issued the schengen visa to verify.

But in general my understanding is that you would be allowed to travel with a new passport, carrying the old one which contains the visa vignette along with it. That's certainly allowed when entering the UK on a UK visa, where your visa is affixed in your old passport. I've done this several times in the past. When stamping the new passport on entry, the IO just makes a comment VIPP (visa in previous passport) along side the entry stamp.

Eaxctly! Same in my own experience.