travelling with a minor relative

[brooker]

Does anyone know if you need any type of note from her parents for our teenage neice who will be travelling with us to Disney from Canada this spring?

 

[eryn the pooh]

Absolutly. You need a notarized note with probebly both parents sinatures on it. I travel with just my daughter all the time and she has her dads last name and I always get a letter from him and I've always been asked for it.

 

[brooker]

Absolutly. You need a notarized note with probebly both parents sinatures on it. I travel with just my daughter all the time and she has her dads last name and I always get a letter from him and I've always been asked for it.

This is a example letter from the Canadian governments website, so would her parents be able to just print this off and fill in the blanks or would it have to be a hand written note?

http://www.voyage.gc.ca/main/before/consent_letter-en.asp

 

[momto1disneyfan]

We took our nephew with us 2 years ago to dinsey. We did get a note signed from both parents advising that they gave us permision to take their son across the border with us and that if anything medically was to happen to him while he was in our care we had the right to give permission for medical treatment. We never got it notorized. When we crossed the at the border in Windsor, we showed all our id. The person never asked for the note even though our last names were different. We actually never had to show the note during the 14 days we were in the US.

 

[Debbie]

All five of my kids have gone with their aunts/uncles-one at a time- over the course of their lives. I teach, and they were privy to February/March trips that I have never done. (nope, I'm not jealous .....just biding my time until I can go offseason! )

I always send -and DH and I sign- a very detailed letter....dates, vehicle type and license plate, destinations, addresses, flight numbers (last trip for DD15), etc. etc. etc. In the letter, I put power of attorney rights-medical and legal-similar to letters that I have to sign for the kids to go on school trips. Oh, I also attach a recent pic if I have one, and add a detailed description of the child in hand.

We've never had them notarized (not that that is a bad idea), and I don't think that the aunties and uncles have ever been asked about them. BUT, better safe than sorry!

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

We've never had them notarized (not that that is a bad idea), and I don't think that the aunties and uncles have ever been asked about them. BUT, better safe than sorry!

Exactly!! I practice family law so get asked about this quite a bit by friends and clients. Legally a letter signed by both parents is required however in practice it's rarely requested at the border. I've notarized dozens of these letters and to date none have been needed. That being said, it's the one time they don't have the letter that it'll be requested.

Lee

 

[eryn the pooh]

Well, I have taken my daughter to Disneyland once a year for the past 5 years and each and every time I have been asked for the letter on my way into the states. Maybe I have a child stealer look? Once we were even asked to get out of the vehicle, at midnight, and come into the office. But that was with another mom and 4 kids and we ALL had different last names.