First passport and issues around it

[SummerSix]

Hey ladies and gents, This isn't AIBU but I didn't know where to ask and there's so much traffic here so 🤷‍♀️.

Anyways, I want to take my little girl away on holiday and I need to apply for her first passport.

However... She has her dads surname and I am concerned about going away with her without the same name. I went away as a child with my mother but we had the same surname. He is on her birth certificate. He doesn't want to travel with us as doesn't travel well but we don't want our daughter to miss out on amazing opportunities because of that.

Am I likely to bump into any issues? Me and her father want to get married eventually but no rugs and if we don't then ok. Plus we are going through a rough patch.

I'm seriously considering changing my surname. It'll be a pain in the arse especially for work but she's also asking why we don't have the same name, asking if I'm her real mum coz we don't have the same surname. She's 6 and does get it, I think she just likes playing on it. I'd like to have the same surname as her tbh but that's a whole other thing. If her dad and I don't work out, having the same surname won't matter to me as my daughter is what's most important.

So to sum up, am I likely to run into problems with us having different surnames? I want to take her to Cairo.

I would take birth certificate. I always took it and was never asked for it until last year- on way back into UK!

He asked DS who I was too. He was more than happy but did say he would have stopped me on way out too, best just to take it and you’ll be fine

You need to carry a letter of consent to travel from him and her full birth certificate which lists you as mother and him as father. The letter of consent must contain address and a phone number he can be contacted on. It's compulsory for most countries to carry it

Right brill, I'd never have even thought about a letter of consent!

Thank you

I travelled to the US last year with DD, OH and DS stayed at home. I am darker skinned and she is white like her dad, we were asked our relation on entering the US and again when we landed back in the UK. Both times I answered mother and daughter and that was sufficient, nothing further required. OH and I are named as her parents on her passport, also OH was named as emergency contact with the airline. No problems whatsoever and we were not asked anything in Paris for our connecting flights.