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travelling with a child with different surname

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    #32
    pwurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    Best to do it alright. I've been stopped with my daughter and questioned. I think the laws changed after the hague convention, so it's only recently enough that they start querying parents travelling alone with children. There's a section on parental child abduction, this is what the laws are trying to prevent.

    http://travel.state.gov/content/childabduction/english/legal/law-and-regulations/hague.html


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    #33
    inocybe
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭inocybe


    Canada is another country that requires a letter of consent from the other parent. We were only changing flights on a cheap route to the US, but had to show this.


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    #34
    Rua1
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Rua1


    I travelled with my son, to New Zealand, who, to the untrained eye, looks nothing like me, he has blonde hair and blue eyes, and I'm dark haired and tanned. Our surnames are different too. I was never asked for any documentation as to whether he was my son. I just took a birth certificate with me, and my husband had his phone on all the time just in case of any queries.


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    JodTT
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    Myself and my husband were travelling back from our honeymoon in Tenerife in January with our 11 month old daughter. My daughter and husband have the same surname and I still have my maiden name for the moment. In Dublin passport control, myself and my daughter went through first and the inspector asked me for a copy of my daughter's birth cert because our names are different.

    Luckily enough my husband was behind me in the queue so it was sorted quickly, but I still can't understand why I was asked heading back INTO Dublin!


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    #36
    Avada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭Avada


    JodTT wrote: »
    Myself and my husband were travelling back from our honeymoon in Tenerife in January with our 11 month old daughter. My daughter and husband have the same surname and I still have my maiden name for the moment. In Dublin passport control, myself and my daughter went through first and the inspector asked me for a copy of my daughter's birth cert because our names are different.

    Luckily enough my husband was behind me in the queue so it was sorted quickly, but I still can't understand why I was asked heading back INTO Dublin!

    Because they're thorough. That's how it should be everywhere


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    #37
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I worked in the airline industry for 12 years and never once had a case of a family with different names having a problem. This is back when it was very rare to have a woman using her maiden name and blended families were unusual. They have to do their job I suppose but its normal enough now to have a parent with a different surname and kidnapping is not restricted to families with different surnames! Still a pain though.


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