babsi

Am 5 months pregnant atm and will prob go to England next May when the baby is 4 months old on my own.

We looked into getting both a Canadian passport and UK passport, but since to get UK is around 200 pounds we have decided against it for the time being.

I know I need a letter from the father, that is fine. But is it 100% fine me travelling with the baby on a Canadian passport? The journey will be stressful enough without having any worries about this.

Also how do you get a decent passport photo of the baby? lol

Judy in Calgary

I don't know the answer to your other questions. In response to this question, we got a passport for our older son when he was a baby, before he could sit on his own. My husband took the photo. We sat our son on a table and, from behind, I propped up his back and neck with one arm and hand. My hand and arm didn't show on the photo.

I don't know if you would call it a "decent" photo. Our son had quite an idiotic expression on his face. But it's kind of fun to look back on it now.

Biiiiink

Congrats!

Do you mean will you have difficulty being on a different passport than your baby? I don't think so, I've never done it alone but me and Jr travel on Canadian and Mr B travels on British. I can never carry child/luggage/etc alone whilst Mr B goes through the "UK and EU" channel so I make him come with me through the "Other" channel. The officials are always fine with this. The only time I've had grief was in the USA from a snotty immigration official who would not let us go through the US/Canada channel together because one of the three of us did not have a US/Canadian passport. Really sympathetic to a screaming baby, he sat and twiddled his thumbs whilst we queued up to be processed by his colleague 2 feet away

As for the photo, we took Jr to a regular photo shop at 2wks old, "sat" him on the stool, held his head up with 4 adult hands (clearly visible with watches, and rings as well on the photo) and they snapped a shot. You would never recognise him in a million years. The customs official when I cleared our container had never seen anything so funny in his life and got all his colleagues to come and have a look at this ridiculous picture. I checked with the Canadian High Commission and they said it was okay for hands to be in the shot, this was 2yrs ago but I'm sure it's still allowed.

A friend took a digital pic of her son herself, laying on a white sheet on her living room floor. That was for a UK passport and was accepted just fine.

Good luck, enjoy the quiet plane ride while it lasts...when they start walking it's 8hrs of hell!!!!