page_title: Passport validity
section_title: Adult passports
hierarchical_section_title: Passport validity / Adult passport validity map / Adult passports
context_page_description: Passport validity is the length of time a passport can be used to travel to another country, or be used as a valid form of identification within or outside the issuing country before its date of expiration.
context_section_description: There is an increasing trend for adult passports to be valid for ten years, such as a United Kingdom passport, United States Passport, New Zealand Passport (after 30 November 2015) or Australian passport. A five year period of validity is also common (as used to be the situation for a Papua New Guinean passport or currently for an Indonesian passport. Some countries issue adult passports for periods between five and ten years, such as the Cuban passport, which is valid for six years.
caption: Old New Zealand passport showing the old validity period of five years
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