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Check you've got the right paperwork before you travel

One wrong date on a passport can stop you boarding. Get a checklist for everyone travelling, with what to sort and by when.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

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The prompt · ChatGPT

Check my trip paperwork with me so nothing stops us at the airport.

Where we're going (all countries, including any stopovers): [e.g. France, then Switzerland, stopover in Dubai]
Dates: [leave date and return date]
Travelling from: [e.g. UK, Manchester Airport]
Who's travelling: [e.g. 2 adults, 1 child aged 9]
Each person's passport (nationality, issue date, expiry date): [list them]
Driving abroad: [no / hiring a car / taking my own car]
Anything else: [e.g. child travelling with one parent, a pet, prescription medicines, a second nationality]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. For each traveller, a checklist: passport dates, visas or travel authorisations, any entry registration, and anything else needed for each country on the route.
2. A countdown list working back from our leave date: what to do 3 months, 1 month, 1 week and the day before, with the actual dates filled in.
3. Driving, children, pets and medicines: what's likely to apply to us, only where relevant.
4. Health and money basics: travel insurance, the UK GHIC or EHIC if we're going to Europe, and paying abroad.
5. A short list of the official pages to check, starting with GOV.UK foreign travel advice for each country.

Rules change, so don't state entry, visa or passport rules as certain — mark each 'check' and point me to GOV.UK foreign travel advice (and the passport/renew pages) so I confirm myself. This is planning help, not immigration or travel insurance advice. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts or figures. UK English.

For each country's entry requirements on GOV.UK foreign travel advice, use web search and name the page you used. If it doesn't search on its own, open View all tools and choose Search.

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A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. e.g. France, then Switzerland, stopover in Dubai: a short note you already have. leave date and return date: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

1

You list where you're going, the dates and who's travelling, with passport dates.

2

The assistant asks about driving abroad, children, pets, medicines and any second nationality.

3

You get a checklist per traveller, deadlines counted back from your departure date, and the official pages to check.

What happens

Use ChatGPT to check you've got the right paperwork before you travel

One wrong date on a passport can stop you boarding. Get a checklist for everyone travelling, with what to sort and by when.

Tools

Paste the prompt, fill the blanks, copy the draft.

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