Originally Posted by
SASKATOON9999
Plenty of time left to apply for a brand new passport - and they will extend the validity date by whats left if current passport upto (I think 90 days).
Can confirm that is the case. Applied right on the edge of the 6 months (the Russians are a bit sniffy about the six months validity, so it is worth my while) and was prepared to lose that time). New passport arrived with the expiry ten year from expiry of expiring passport. It also arrived two days after posting the application, which suggests there has been a sea change in how the Passport Office operate.