travel and passports
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Topic: travel and passports
Posted By: Bombshell
Subject: travel and passports
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 8:39pm
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ok so a couple of questions
- if you get a baby passport do you change it in a few years or at normal expiry date...if bubs is only months old shouldnt it be updated sooner??? Dont they change and not look like their photos???? - also for travel to usa should i change mine - it is currently in maiden name and not due to expire but will be travelling with DH and bubs with their own last name different to mine - do you think that would make them iffy or just stick with travelling on my maiden name? |
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 8:50pm
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With the weird stuff going on with airports and stuff like that I will actually change your passport to your new surname.
If we need to travel with McKayla you just get another photo inserted or like a page or something going into the passport that updates it with a kid (or so I was let to believe.) Maybe just call and find out? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 8:55pm
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I would leave yours till it is due to expire it's an unnessersary cost. Andrew's is still his baby photo and i'm not planning on getting a new passport as the price has gone up quite alot. But that has reminded me to see if he can still travel with the baby pic. When you get Gabriella's passport get your DH to sign the forms as they have the same surnames on their passports so much easier. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 8:56pm
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Maya was 3 weeks old in her passport photo, and we've never updated it. Some dopey customs lady tried to tell me last time that she could "tell" by the face shape whether it was the same person, till I pointed out that all three of my girls have the same face shape.
As for changing your name, I wouldn't bother. As long as DH has the same name as bubs it isn't an issue. I have to take the girls birth certs when we travel as they have Willie's surname and I have on occasion been asked for evidence that I am their mother. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 9:05pm
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yeah that is what i am wondering...think i will take certified true copy with me of marriage cert and her birth cert to oz first as going without DH then ....hmmmm am guessing i can get that done pretty easy! LOL
might change it before USA perhaps....or maybe pretend we just got married and on our honeymoon....wonder if that would work LMAO!!! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 9:07pm
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You're not legally obligated to take his name tho, you could always tell them you chose not to. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: lil_miss
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 9:19pm
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Just so long as you book your ticket in your maiden name and it matches your passport I dont think there is an issue.
What a shame they dont endorse passports anymore with married names :( |
Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 9:38pm
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I have been travelling on my old passport with maiden name for bout 4 years now & have had no problems & will only re-new when it expires as the new cost (because of a chip in the passport) is now about $160 I think & the girls cost $88 I think, cost was nearly doubled so wont be in a hurry to change them also even adult passports are only valid for 5 years so you are paying double the price for 1/2 the time. Ashlyn still looks like her photo but them she was nearly 2 when we had hers done but Anastasia looks soooo different than her photo (she has hair now!) ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 9:56pm
Newer passports have scanned photos not actual ones, so it would be a case of having to get a whole new passport - we've nver had any trouble travelling with Jake on his 5 dday picture! no one has even commented on it. |
SMoody wrote:Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 10:11pm
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The most important thing when travelling is that the name on your ticket matches the name on your passport. If you're worried that the immigration people will question that you're Gabriella's mum, you can always take a copy of her birth certificate -- but they shouldn't have any issues. My "official" last name is hyphenated (I'm in the process of changing it to my husband's last name) and Emma Rose has my husband's last name, so when we travelled to the US last year, our passports had two different last names. The border officials only cared that the names on the passports matched the names on the tickets. And if you're still unsure, give the NZ passport office a ring -- they're actually surprisingly helpful on the phone! I rang them Thursday and asked several curly questions relating to immigration and permits and travelling, and the guy I spoke to was not only helpful, he was FRIENDLY! (Gasp!) |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 24 June 2007 at 10:17pm
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OMG a friendly person at NZ passport office...NO!!!
Not too worried about the signing thing...actually I would rather sign than DH as person who applied for passport is the only person who they will deal with! (ok officially that is but we all know how that privacy act works!!!) am more worried about usa to be honest so might revisit it before then....have a few months... and OMG the cost is Huge for passports now...crazy! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 25 June 2007 at 9:25am
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Don't sign your kids passports tho - it says on the instructions that come with it that kids under 10 (12?) are not required to sign but that parents shouldn't sign on their behalf. You do have to sign the departure/arrival documents on their behalf tho. Go figure!
Maya "signed" hers and mine with bright green felt pen one afternoon after she helped herself to them in my drawer. Thankfully we haven't had any problems using them coz replacing them is not only expensive but a PITA! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 25 June 2007 at 9:28am
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I didn't know they stopped endorsing as thats what I had done!
I think it was about $50 and they just put an amendment on page 4 saying that my married name was now xxxx and I had to go in and sign it in front of them. I would check that you can't do that as it was so much easier travelling with the same name in some countries. -------------  
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Posted By: Skyflame
Date Posted: 25 June 2007 at 5:52pm
| When did you have the endorsement done Peanut? Endorsemnets were removed 21 April 2005, right before I was about to get mine done. I was so annoyed so am staying with maiden name on passport until it runs out in 2010. |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 25 June 2007 at 8:40pm
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they can't endorse it as they have a chip in it now and its a scanned pic.
aS FOR CHILDREN WITH different surname as mother. It doesn't matter I have travelled with my kids with different surname (not with DH) and they didn't question it at all.. and so they shouldn't! Kids passports last 5 years and now the new adults one last for 5 years too. As long as you book your ticket in your maiden name you can fly with your maiden name passport. I would NOT book in your married name and only take your marriage cert with you as evendence its you as they will NOT except it. The customs at USA wasn't as bad as what they made out it to be either - just been there around 3 weeks ago. ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |