Taking daughter to USA - different surnames?

claire16c

The thing with the US is to assume the worst and most likely they wont ask you anything.

But you can bet it will be **ds law if you dont bring paper work with you you will get a grilling from the biggest jobsworth working there.

Mojisola

If you don't want to take the certificate that you were given at her registration, just buy another one and take that.

pollyanna24

My mum and dad took my daughter to Barbados when she was 10 months old.

My daughter has my exbf's surname and an British passport. Just to complicate things, my mum has an American passport and my dad an Irish one.

So, as you can imagine, they were stopped when they tried leaving the country! Three different nationalities, two surnames and a baby.

Luckily I had foreseen this and just gave my mum copies of daughter's birth cert, copies of mine and my (then) bf's passports and birth certs and a letter signed from both me and my ex.

Indout96

The thing with the US is to assume the worst and most likely they wont ask you anything.

Why - we have been around 30 times now and only had problems once (walking over Rainbow bridge from Niagra and only then as there is a fee and we needed to pay by card as we had no US $)
Other than that we have never had problems with US imigration.

maman

Igottawii!! wrote: »

When we took my daughters friend (at the time they were aged 15) to Paris on a day trip with us by car the Border Agent on the way back sternly told us that we should have written permission from the friend's parent when taking her out of the country!

I've taken a letter from my DD when I've taken my DGD on holiday (different names). It's better to be prepared than risk potential hassle. After all, it's only a few pieces of paper you're taking it'll hardly affect the baggage allowance.

Have a great time in NYC, I'm sure you'll all love it!