Travel With Daughter
Jun 1st 2018, 4:37 pm
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Travel With Daughter
I am a UK citizen and a green card holder, my daughter who is 8 is a US citizen. I want to take her to the UK this summer to see her great grandmother who is 101.
When we get to the UK I assume I will have to accompany her and pass through the Non EU citizen line, and similarly when returning to the US we will have to both go through the Non US citizen line.
Has anyone experienced this that can offer advice?
When we get to the UK I assume I will have to accompany her and pass through the Non EU citizen line, and similarly when returning to the US we will have to both go through the Non US citizen line.
Has anyone experienced this that can offer advice?
Jun 1st 2018, 4:42 pm
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Re: Travel With Daughter
I am a UK citizen and a green card holder, my daughter who is 8 is a US citizen. I want to take her to the UK this summer to see her great grandmother who is 101.
When we get to the UK I assume I will have to accompany her and pass through the Non EU citizen line, and similarly when returning to the US we will have to both go through the Non US citizen line.
Has anyone experienced this that can offer advice?
When we get to the UK I assume I will have to accompany her and pass through the Non EU citizen line, and similarly when returning to the US we will have to both go through the Non US citizen line.
Has anyone experienced this that can offer advice?
Good idea to get a notarized letter from the father giving you permission to take the child out of the US.
Jun 1st 2018, 4:52 pm
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Jun 1st 2018, 8:12 pm
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Re: Travel With Daughter
https://www.gov.uk/overseas-passports
Jun 2nd 2018, 2:15 am
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Re: Travel With Daughter
You can go through whichever line is the shortest. You should take a notarized letter signed by your daughter's mother as well as a copy of your daughter's birth certificate (if your name is on it). Last time I entered the UK with my daughter, I was asked for her birth certificate (we were both entering on British passports) which was a first for me. I didn't have it, was given a talking to and a card about child abduction.
Jun 2nd 2018, 2:58 am
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Jun 2nd 2018, 3:44 pm
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Re: Travel With Daughter
My parents took my kids to the UK without us last year, and I (alone) brought them back to the US. Neither the airline nor immigration (in either country) batted an eyelid. However, this is not advice at all - we were prepared like the earlier posts, albeit no copies of birth certificates. But that news story recently about the biracial kid whose parent got questioned being considered as racist: Has the world gone mad? Weren't the airline simply doing their job to help prevent child abduction? Maybe it's just my thinking...
Jun 2nd 2018, 4:55 pm
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Re: Travel With Daughter
If I had a kid I'd definitely go for the shorter line - not my problem they don't have enough employees to handle the incoming passengers in a timely manner. They know how many flights are due and how many pax they have. But I think as an adult traveling alone I won't be able to get away with that if the shortest line is not the "correct" line.
