Just to repeat what I said on the other thread - USA/Canada it is different.
Just this last Friday morning I witnessed the signatures of a married couple on a permission to travel form that the Canadian mother needed in order to enter Canada with her daughter but without Dad. This couple were married. When I expressed the same surprise that many people on these threads have expressed, the mother (who travels frequently to Canada so is a very good source) told me that stateside they are very big on checking these things and it is imperative to have documentation. Well they must be big on it because I was witnessing their signatures on a standard form document.
Edit. My look what a google search for "travel to canada with child one parent" threw up
The OP here is asking about traveling with a minor that is NOT their own child (cousin or niece), which is slightly different to what is required when traveling with your own child.
I'm sure that in a case like this it's best to get written permission from the parents, possibly notarised; especially as they're non-EU and have different surnames.
But parents traveling on their own with their children do NOT need permission from the other parent to travel with their children. Canada or the
And, yet again, this is about travelling with a child that is not your own, first degree-relative.
I have no problem with the need to obtain written permission if you're travelling with a child that is not a first-degree relative, such as a cousin, niece/nephew, etc. or is possibly under a custody order.... but it is not correct that a parent cannot travel on their own with their own child.
If, as some links suggest, it IS required for travel to/within the US with your own child (yet another post says that the US doesn't check for possible kidnap victims despite asking for such paperwork) then that's another shame on that country's obsession with the idea of the rule of law, and failure to provide any results. Why else would you need such paperwork?
No one was saying this. Of course you can travel with your own child or with anyone elses for that matter. The OP asked about travel with a minor where you are not the parent (or in the case of a separated parent where you are not the parent with the residence order/child arrangements order). Subsequent posters widened up the thread as they were talking about lone parent travel.
I am emphasising that even for lone parent travel into certain jurisdictions you require certain documentation - certainly where you are not the parent of a child with a residence order and in some jurisdictions even where you are the parent.
The link I posted was regarding Canada not USA for lone parent travel.
The second link was regarding travel with a child for whom you do not have parental responsibility - the example I picked being the UK jurisdiction for this one.
Ahhh, but for unaccompanied minors there are a raft of forms to fill out at time of booking and at the airport. Plus both ends have to prove their ID (M should be doing her first Unaccompanied Minors trip in a few months when she is six)
Yes they are ; JanerMacP has insisted on that very fact in two threads now.... because, for some reason she gets picked on by border guards when travelling with her children.
What she should be doing is finding out why that is happening, not telling all parents that they need to carry a ton of paperwork to show that they have permission from their spouse to travel alone with their own children.
I answered the OP in post #2 of this thread saying that they do need written permission to travel with the particular minor that they're asking about, she promptly leapt in and diverted the thread away from the point of the posed question.
Actually not so many forms (I have only ever experienced 1 form) - contact details for who is depositing them and who is collecting/relationship to child, and yes - those people must verify identity with ID. The form lists the flight details and any connecting flights.
My youngest has just turned 12, so is very glad he won't need to wear a plastic pouch around his neck anymore. He is flying off to Hamburg on Sunday - acting very cool about it but I can tell he is pre-thinking "must find my gate". We have printed out a terminal map in preparation.
"International Child Abduction: A Guidebook for Left-Behind Parents"
The right of children to access to both their parents is given human right. THat's why there's Hague Convention against Child Abduction. Parental alienation is a form of child abuse... The consent letter is not a requirement for entry transit in Canada but a good sensible recommendation. ANd yes it's for welfare of children.
Hi - i will add to this thread with a question - specific to parents of a US citizen child travelling to the US. This is a more of a what to do question.
My 4 month old son has both a US and Italian passport, his C-Permit is linked to the Italian citizenship. This was done automatically. He was born in CH and the Gemeinde registered him with the Italian authorities automatically, i guess due to his mother's citizenship, we did nothing to Register him, we just got the Italian passport after we were informed he was registered there. I had to register his US citizenship independently.
When traveling to the US, do we book the flight under the Italian passport (thus leaving CH with linked Permit) and enter the US with the US passport or the Italian passport?
Or do we book the flight with the US passport, an thus subsequently enter with US passport? I assume when we come back we enter with Italian passport since thats linked to his residency permit
Anybody have experience on this? (FYI, both passports are new obviously and the US one has no entry to CH stamps and not linked in anyway to his residence Permit)
Were it me I would use the US Passport. If your wife is not travelling with you then you will want to bring a letter signed by her indicating that she is aware that you are travelling with the baby.
The Swiss aren't going to take your baby from you when you return.