Child Passport problem

tunner53

Can any one please help me..... After a seperation my daughter (aged 12) has come to live with me (dad). I want to take her abroad on holiday but she does not have her own passport as she is still on her mums passport as a named child. I'm happy to apply and pay for her own passport but .... and its a big but.... her mum needs to send off her passport to have the child removed... and of course she refuses to. She thinks it a way of getting at me.
I spoke to the passport agency but they were no help only advising solicitors and courts. does any one know of a way out of this because the more I ask/beg the more it gets worse

Fran

I think you will have to go down the line of courts/solicitors to solve this one as the UK Passport Service website says the same as you've been told.

See what your Citizens Advice Bureau have to say about it.

Bossyboots

tunner53 wrote:

Can any one please help me..... After a seperation my daughter (aged 12) has come to live with me (dad). I want to take her abroad on holiday but she does not have her own passport as she is still on her mums passport as a named child. I'm happy to apply and pay for her own passport but .... and its a big but.... her mum needs to send off her passport to have the child removed... and of course she refuses to. She thinks it a way of getting at me.
I spoke to the passport agency but they were no help only advising solicitors and courts. does any one know of a way out of this because the more I ask/beg the more it gets worse

My friend simply wrote a letter to the passport office stating that the dad had the passport and because of all the ill-feeling between them, there was absolutely no way she could ask for it either herself, through her child or a solicitor. They accepted that and a new passport was issued.

Same with my neighbour. They were told to put it in writing and it wouldn't be a problem. In the end he managed to get the passport at the 11th hour but the letter was all prepared to go off.

£Ronnie

How sad, why do parents drag their children into their own battles?
What kind of parent stops their child having a great experience of going away for selfish reasons?

How about having a holiday in the UK instead of going abroad. I am sure your daughter will love just spending the time away with you, doing things together, making memories etc.
However if you do want to get out of England for a while, why not go to one of the countries that you do not need a passport for? Ireland for example, scotland, I am sure there must be more, these are just hte ones I know about...

However it works out I hope you have a great time.

sarahlouise210

If you apply for a passport and in all ignorance have absolutely no idea that she is already on your wifes passport...they will never know!:rolleyes: As far as you are concerned it is her first passport. We had a similar problem - ex would not give up passport..I was not about to let my son miss his school trip just because his dad was bitter and twisted.

skylight

Similar Problem.

My Step daughter had her passport stolen whilst we were away last year (she stopped in Nans apartment and they all lost out)

As the passport was signed for by her mother (although we paid for it AND OH has parental responsibiltiy), we cannot complete the lost/stolen forms - the mother has too. ALthough OH is allowed to apply for a new passport once this has happened!

Mother however, is now in prison and we do not want any contact at all. We are being forced to take this issue after so long to court.

Its messing up my free (tesco deals!) Disneyland trip.

tunner53

Cheers for all the advice, I will try the letter option, nothing ventured nothing gained. It is sad how people use their children against each other. I've had one hell of a time for the last 18 months, but if any body is having the same the only advice I can give is, ride the storm because the children will figure it all out in the end. Thats what happened to me.... and now she lives with me and is happy.

mummysaver

Glad to hear that both you and your daughter are happy now, and hope that you get the passport sorted out without too much trouble and have a great holiday.

black-saturn

My boyfriend has custody of his daughter and when he was getting her a passport last year he had the same problem. He had to send a letter (by recorded delivery) of a photocopy of the custody papers and the full birth certificate with his name on as the father. A standard birth certificate only has the mum on it so you will have to go to the registry office of where she was born to get a full long version of the birth certificate.

MyUserNamesTaken

This is actually something I'm worried about. My 10 year old son lives with me and has his own passport (which I applied for - I think!). Anyway, his dad (who he rarely sees) has now got the idea into his head that he's going to take our son to Tenerife. I'm worried he'll either just apply for a new passport in my son's name (he can get his birth certificate easily enough, as we were married when my son was born and he's named as the father on that), or report my son's passport as lost, then try to get another one. The other thing that worries me is that he may report the passport lost in order to stop us going abroad. He knows we go away a fair bit. We haven't been to court over access or anything, but I will only let my ex see our son at the ex-mother-in-law's house (3 hours drive away from here), as he's unstable and unpredictable. He knows if he goes to court, the most he will get is access through a contact centre. He doesn't live anywhere near us now. There's no way I'd let him take my son anywhere on his own, let alone out of the country.


How do I know about his plans? His girlfriend asked me to make sure I had my son's passport. She agrees that he's unstable!

Fran

There is information about child abduction on the UK Passport Services website.