Valid passport info - minimum 6 months validity after arrival?

[ukran1ans]

What's the point of having an expiry date if it's not a hard number? Like booking a dinner table from 6 to 8 and having the table cleared at 7:30 because you're within a half hour of the end of your reservation. What am I missing? If it hasn't expired then it's good is how I feel.

Well what I think their logic is that since you can reorder a new passport within 6 months of an existing passport's expiration, that means you can potentially have 2 passports available, allowing the 'old' passport to be sold, maybe modified and used by the wrong people with still a valid expiration date.

SO I agree with most people here in that it's just not worth the hassles to not renew your passport. I did it last fall, it was easy to download the docs from online, fill them out and mail them in with my old passport with a USP money order. I got the new passport 3 weeks later....