suricatessen replied to your post:[[MOR] No one is around for me to vent to, but...
I don’t understand, your passport isn’t past expiration date but still it has expired somehow?
France won’t let you into the country if your passport is within 3 months of its expiration date (regardless of whether your trip will be completed in its entirety before your passport expires). I honestly don’t understand why; it seems like a stupid rule, but the airline agent said it’s really common for countries to have rules like that. So because my passport expires next month, I’m SOL unless I can get a passport renewal in time to make a 3:45 PM flight. (Considering that the passport agency won’t promise the passport any earlier than 3:30, and the airport is ~25 minutes away, that’s... a long shot to say the least.)
I could in theory get a different flight later tonight that wouldn’t get me to France until like 5 AM on Thursday. Technically I could probably get from Paris to Lille in time for Thursday’s activities, but I’d be exhausted and braindead, and there’s no guarantee that even that would work.
So I’m just... really disappointed I guess. :(