Our family has a cruise booked out of Fort Lauderdale on Princess for a 10 day Caribbean cruise. Looking at our passports we discovered that our 15 year old daughters' passport expires at the end of Feb 2023 which will be within the 6 month rule. Our cruise departs Dec 19 and I am a bit worried that if I go in to apply for a new passport, handing in her old one, that there may be some delays of getting her a new passport before we leave.
In searching the requirements for passports for Canadians entering the US, I see a note for those under 16; "
Canadian citizens aged 15 years and under entering the United States by land or water require one of the following documents:
a passport
an original or a copy of a birth certificate
an original Canadian citizenship certificate
From my interpretation of this, if they question us about the 6 month rule for her passport then as long as we have an original copy of her birth certificate we should be fine.
Next question is in regards to all of the ports that we enter if we risk the chance of using her existing passport. Will I have to look up the rules for each of the countries we enter to see if they have the 6 month rule in effect or if they are like the US and have different rules for those under 16? I have no problem getting a new passport for her but don't need the stress of it somehow getting bogged down in the system.
FYI, we are located in Edmonton, Alberta.