deano

hi everyone :scared: we've got our passports back today with our visas in, great yeah, you'd think! my daughter is on my passport and the visa in my passport only metions my name, is this right? god i'm tearing my hair out. i can't contact london they seem to be a completely closed shop to all contact from the outside world somebody please help me!!!

moneypenny20

Don't panic. You are fine as you are, unless you decide to go to the US or pass through the US, they insist on children having their own passports. Other countries will follow shortly though I am sure.

If your passport is up for renewal in the next year or so, it may be worth applying for new ones, and therefore separate one for your daughter, then you just contact AHC, explaining and they can re stamp your new passports. If the passport has a while to go, just don't go via the States.

deano

so the fact that she isn't mentioned on my visa is ok?

moneypenny20

As long as she is on your passport. Once you get her her own, AHC will have to stamp hers as well as re doing yours.

Stormz

We just had to get a passport for our baby from both UK & Aus. Crazy! and expensive. They wouldn`t have let her into Aus without an Aus one. Would she have been taken away from us at the airport and put back on the next plane to the UK??? Stupid.

JAJ

No of course not. You'd have got a talking to from Immigration and they would have allowed her enter the country.

Your real problem would be at check-in. Without an Australian or NZ passport, a valid visa in another foreign passport, or eligiblility for a special purpose visa, or if you are a Norfolk Island PR then, you won't be allowed to check-in for an Australia bound flight.

Jeremy

JAJ

It's not ok. Her details need to be on a visa otherwise she will not be allowed to check in for an Australia bound flight.

Advise your case officer that there's a problem. And to make things simple, get her her own passport and have her visa stamped in it.

Having children on parent's passports is not a good idea.



Jeremy

nickos12

My children were on my passport and it still had 2 years to run, To be sure I got them and me a new passport and we all have visas in individual passports.
I got 9 months added to the 10years so that was a bonus. Woth it as we are now here
Liz

vivi

No worries hun, we had the same, in fact having had a passport for 9 years with my daughter on it, and using it every year, didn't even realise it had her name on it.....duh! However when it came to checking in at Heathrow, slight panic as they questioned it. Tip, take a copy of the documentation with you!! Happy travelling!!
Vivi

deano

i contacted my case officer yesterday who replied this morning, they should have put a visa in for my daughter!, she said it was a good job that i had noticed otherwise we would have had trouble getting through immigration. she contacted london for me today, they contacted me back and apologised for the mix up, they basically just omitted to add a visa for alyce. they have told me to send the passport back to them and they will put the visa in and pay for the return special delivery! it could have been a real nightmare!!! :scared:

JAJ

You still have the problem of having her on your passport as opposed to her having her own.

I presume you are aware of the travel hassles that this can involve - for starters, she is not allowed to enter the US on the visa-waiver. This means you generally cannot even transit the US if going to or from Australia that way.

Jeremy

Ialibu

Slightly off topic but we don't seem to have advanced very much as a society. 100 years ago my grandfather travelled the world for more than 10 years without a passport.

JAJ

Passports were only introduced in the WW1 period (1914-1918).
Lack of money was the main inhibitor to travel before 1914, not immigration control.

The British, Australian and Canadian passport office websites have pages on the history of passports in these countries.

Jeremy