Permission form question/Aunt

[DisKneeKnut]

Hi Everyone.


I have checked the archives for an answer to this questions with pretty good results. I have one thing bothering me and would be open to suggestions.

I know this may be more of a legal question but thought I would ask. My husband and I are taking my niece and nephew to DW in May. My sister has written permission from my ex-brother-in-law. She didn't have it notarized at that time thinking that she could have it done on her own.

Do you think it may be possible for her to fill out and give permission and have it notarized to have for crossing the border without having him re-do the paperwork? She would still list his name etc. I could still bring both documents.

I don't want a hassle as I'm concerned since they didn't get this original dual consent paper notarized. I'm tending to think that it may be easier to get both parents to have a form signed and notarized.

TIA

Sorry if this is a bit of a scrambled question the way I put it.

 

[ferris198]

Obviously you need both parental concents
I would suggest one letter with both signatures, notarized.
It all depends on the border guards, but better to be prepared.

 

[DisKneeKnut]

Thank you for the quick reply. I was leaning towards this myself. Better to be safe than sorry. Both kids are really looking forward to this.

My niece is 12 and my nephew is 10

 

[Kurby]

how close are you to the boarder? i'm thinking it might be easier if mom drove the kids over then you take them and mom could meet you on the way back to bring them home

might solve some problems

god - it was soooooo easy when we took my cousin down to the states with us when we were kids. hell i don't think they ever batted an eye and never once did they come into our motor home to see if we were really telling the truth and not bringing in 20 ppl.

 

[DisKneeKnut]

Hi Kurby.

We live in Owen Sound. My sister lives about 20 minutes south of here, she is on the way to the Port Huron crossing. That is a good idea, but my sister won't be able to swing this as she works nights and I work days, we're leaving after a snooze after work.

I'll get my sister to get her ex in Toronto to get his paperwork notarized and my sister will be getting hers done. I'm glad that this type of protection is in place but just co-ordinating things when my sister didn't get this done correctly in the first place. Ugh.

I'm looking forward to this vacation. Now to get all our ducks in a row. We leave on May 24th.

Thank you.

 

[maryliz]

In our family, between my sisters and myself, we have taken nieces and nephews to Florida many times. We have never been asked for anything, and all we had was a letter stating who the child was (picture attached), the trip itinerary (including info on the vehicle we would be driving), and daytime/evening contact numbers for the parents. It was also noted that the parents were giving us both legal and medical authority to act on their behalf if necessary. Both parents signed it. Given that the parents are divorced, I would definitely want to make sure that you have written permission from both parents. Many on these boards say it's better to get them notarized ... we never did, but they never asked us either. I often wondered after our last trip like this in 2003 why the border guard didn't even question why one of the kids had a totally different last name than the rest of us. I know that's very common these days, but I would have thought it would have warranted the question at least.

My DBIL just took my niece with him on their Dec trip and he had exactly the above. No problems whatsoever.