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Passport - authorisation from other parent for renewal?

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alabamathunderpussy · 11/05/2023 20:06

Does anyone have any experience of this? DS lives with my partner and I and has supervised contact with my ex once a month. We have a court order in place that confirms this arrangement.
We have recently applied for a new passport as DS' has expired. My ex arranged the original passport but we had it, so have sent it off with the court order and the application for a new one. However, we have now received a request from the passport office saying we need written consent from the other parent before the passport will be granted.
Should this be the case? Reading online it seems to suggest that the court order should allow us to request a passport without getting the other parent involved? Contact with my ex is extremely difficult and this will just be used as the latest power struggle if we have to go down that route.

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23Elfie · 11/05/2023 20:28

I'm a single parent to my daughter and I just renewed hers online? Not sure if there are different rules if you have a court order though?
Is there a helpline/customer service number you could call?

dementedpixie · 11/05/2023 20:42

You wouldn't normally need permission even if you were married.
Maybe phone and speak to someone about it

MamaDollyorJesus · 11/05/2023 21:14

I always give ex my passport details for DS's form & give a letter for him to send off giving my permission for him to apply for the passport - for some reason DS has always needed a new passport when going on holiday with his dad so he's always done the renewals even though I did the first one & I'm pretty sure he didn't give me anything for that other than his passport info for the form.

In the case of my DDs father he had no contact with them so I sent a copy of the court order revoking his previous contact agreement & a letter explaining that we had no idea where he was so could only provide the basic information of his name & date of birth when applying for their passports as children. Now they're adults they have to provide the covering letter as anyone born after 1984 should provide parents details to get a passport.

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