What documents are needed for a child to travel abroad
What documents are needed for a child to travel abroad
When traveling with children, it is important to remember thatthe laws of all countries they have a special status. From the legal point of view, many decisions for the child are required by his parents, so the list of documents is partly due to this, and in part to the fact that abroad it is important to be able to identify the personality of a minor without problems, even in the absence of a passport.
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Identification. In this capacity, one of several documents can be used: your child's own passport, a birth certificate and a foreign passport of one of the parents. The preferred option for any situation is your child's own passport. Some countries do not consider visa applications for children inscribed in their parents' passports, requiring that every child, even a baby, has their own passport. With its reception of problems does not arise: to issue this document it is possible on the child of absolutely any age, the minimum threshold does not exist. If you plan to travel with your child often, be sure to take care of your own passport.
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A valid option as a certificateperson is a birth certificate, complete with the passport of one of the parents, where the minor is inscribed. In this case, sometimes a translation of the certificate into the language of the country of the world where you are going is required. You may need to notarize the accuracy of the translation of the document. The birth certificate must contain an insert on the nationality of the child, if it was issued before 2007. If a child travels without parents, then according to the birth certificate he can not leave.
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Notarized consent for departure fromparents. If a child travels without parents, then consent must be given from both parents. If he is traveling with one of them, then consent will be required from the second, the remaining home of the parent. Some countries require that there is consent for departure from both parents, even if the family leaves in full force, since if the people then separate, from a legal point of view the child's journey would be approved by the parents. This method is called cross-agreement.
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Visa to the country of destination. The visa can be obtained by the child in his / her own foreign passport or in the birth certificate. Sometimes, if the child is inscribed on his parents' passport, he does not need his own visa, he travels on a parent's visa.
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Certificate of marriage of parents. This document may be required to prove that both parents are married and the child is their legal child. If the mother or father is a loner or a widow / widower, then this also needs to be documented. In this case, the document, as a rule, needs a notarized translation.
