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Track passports, licences, visas, certificates and warranties on one board, with a reminder ladder and renewal windows.
The Document Expiry Reminder Board tracks the expiry date of every document you own and turns each one into a reminder ladder — typically 90, 30 and 7 days out — instead of a single alarm that arrives too late to be useful. It also dates the day each renewal window opens, using the real rules: an Indian passport may be re-issued from a year before expiry, and a driving licence may be renewed from 30 days before it under section 15 of the Motor Vehicles Act. Add a travel date and it checks passports and visas against the six-month validity rule most destinations apply on entry.
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Set Today's date and, if you are travelling, a Planned travel date, then for each row pick a Document type such as Passport, Driving licence, Pollution Under Control certificate or Warranty or AMC, give it a Name on the board and a Reference number, and set the date it Expires on.
Edit "Remind me this many days before (comma separated)" to set that document's reminder ladder, and press Add a document for every other item you want tracked.
The summary reports Documents tracked, Already expired, Expiring within 90 days, the Next expiry and any Travel validity problems, a Before you travel section names the documents at risk, and Copy result exports the whole board.
Each document gets several reminders, so there is time to start and time to chase.
It shows the earliest date each authority will accept an application, not just the deadline.
Passports and visas are tested against the six-month and Schengen three-month rules.
Up to one year before it expires, and a re-issue application is still accepted for up to three years after expiry at the normal fee. Applying earlier than a year out is generally not accepted, so a year before expiry is the practical first reminder.
Many countries require a passport to remain valid for at least six months beyond the date you enter. The Schengen area applies a different test — validity of at least three months beyond your intended departure, plus a rule that the passport was issued within the previous ten years. This board's travel check only tests the expiry-date side of these rules (the six-month and three-month validity windows) against the expiry date you entered — it doesn't collect a passport's issue date, so a clean 'Before you travel' section doesn't confirm the ten-year-issuance part of the Schengen rule. Check that yourself, and remember airlines enforce all of this at check-in, so a technically valid passport can still stop you boarding.
From 30 days before expiry, under section 15 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Renewing more than 30 days after expiry attracts a late fee, and if more than five years have passed since expiry you have to take the driving test again.
Six months for a vehicle in normal use, and one year from the date of registration for a new vehicle. Driving without a valid Pollution Under Control certificate is a fineable offence, and insurers can ask to see one at renewal.