Do you need a passport to go to Jersey?
When travelling by ferry from the UK to Jersey you won’t require a passport to enter for adults or children if you're a British Citizen, however, you will be required to bring photo ID if you’re 16 years or older. You will need to bring a valid photo ID from the list of accepted identification below:
Accepted travel documents include:
- A valid passport (i.e. in date)
- An expired passport (domestic sailings only, up to two years after expiry)
- Common law passport
- Valid EU or Swiss national identity card
- Valid driving licence (full or Provisional are accepted)
- Valid Armed Forces identity card
- Valid police warrant card/badge
- A child on parent’s passport is an acceptable form of ID
- Citizen Card or Civilian Card, available from www.citizencard.com/
- Valid firearm certificate
- Valid government-issued identity card
- NHS SMART card
- Electoral identity card
- NUS card (National Union of Students)
- University/college ID card
- Council-issued bus pass
- Young Scot card
- Disabled badges which have a photograph of the holder
- Certificate of Competency issued by the government (domestic routes only, must be photographic)
- VALIDATE UK PASS photographic proof of age cards.
- CPP Guernsey ID card
- Guernsey 18+ card
*Please note that all photo ID must be legible and undamaged, otherwise you will not be able to travel. All forms of ID must be valid and in date. An expired passport will be accepted for domestic sailings only, up to two years after expiry. *Please note that digital copies of your photo ID are not acceptable.
