disney1474
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- May 24, 2007
Ok, I have all our passports. Question is I have a 9 and 11 year old. Can they sign their passports or do we as parents sign. Wondering what you all do. First time having passports!!
At 9 and 11 they can write their own names.Ok, I have all our passports. Question is I have a 9 and 11 year old. Can they sign their passports or do we as parents sign. Wondering what you all do. First time having passports!!
Ok, I have all our passports. Question is I have a 9 and 11 year old. Can they sign their passports or do we as parents sign. Wondering what you all do. First time having passports!!
Ok, I have all our passports. Question is I have a 9 and 11 year old. Can they sign their passports or do we as parents sign. Wondering what you all do. First time having passports!!
"Printing" would be acceptable, if that's how they "sign" their name. I know several people who don't use cursive. And many more who have a combination of cursive/block letters in their writing (including myself).Looked at your location, saw that you are in the US.
http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/FAQs.html#Minors
"A parent or legal guardian may sign the passport if the child is too young to sign his or her own name. To do so, a parent or legal guardian must print the child’s name and sign his or her own name in the space provided for the signature. The parent or legal guardian must also write his or her relationship to the child in parenthesis next to the signature (e.g., parent or legal guardian) so we know who signed for the child."
Since I have a kid who has been VERY late in reading well, and also late in writing decently (same as his father though his father was tormented by parents and school system, while we just relaxed and knew it would come in time, and it has), I'm not going to assume that your kids can *sign* their names. Since the info says "to sign his or her own name" I personally wouldn't (and didn't) assume that *printing* is OK.
they aren't teaching cursive in school anymore.... at least here in texas. i think that's STUPID.My son was 21 when he got his passport and he had trouble signing his name in cursive because he usually printed everything. He had to practice signing his name before he signed his passport. It ended up looking like chicken scratch & to this day his signature still looks like that.
When we were at check-in at port last cruise there was a Chinese Family next to us who had printed there names on their documents. The CM at the counter told them they had to sign in cursive. They looked confused and asked if they could sign them in Chinese character as that was their formal signature and that is what they ended up doing.
they aren't teaching cursive in school anymore.... at least here in texas. i think that's STUPID.
they aren't teaching cursive in school anymore.... at least here in texas. i think that's STUPID.
my grandmother and mother all only write in cursive. there may not be a reason to now, but kids can't read anything written in cursive and that's frightening.Cursive isn't on THE TEST. (sarcasm)
But in reality, there is really no reason to have to write in cursive. I don't think there ever was.