Step-children & residency

[pandyrike08]

Morning - any immigration lawyers/experts on here able to advise whether my ex-husband is within his rights to demand children's passports at short notice for his non-EU (new) wife's residency application? For context, they don't live with him and spend less than 5 nights per month with them.
He has previous of mis-using personal documents so just want to be sure before I let their personal data go. Thanks in advance.

The children are nothing to do with her, don't hand them over.

For me I would think is this the hill I want to die on. He already knows the children's personal data. The government agency already have access to the children's data. You gain nothing from this just more drama. Unless you have concerns about children being removed from the country, save the energy.

Neither of you own children's passports so don't use them as a weapon, you trusted him enough to have children with him I presume?

Can you just send photos, assuming he only needs the details not the actual passports?

@pandyrike08 im not a lawyer, but a long time ago I did work in immigration advice. I can’t think of any reason why his new wife would need his children’s passports for a residency application.
Obviously I could be wrong, but until someone with more experience comes along, I’d suggest that you ask him for a letter from her solicitor with an explanation as to why they are need for this application. If they are needed, you could deliver them to the solicitor rather than go through him though.

If he has misused personal documents in the past then giving him the passports sounds risky. You would need to be 100 percent sure that he won’t use them to take the kids abroad without your permission.

I’d pop to a solicitors, get a certified copy made, and give him that…

I wouldn't give anyone my dcs passports. I don't know why his new wife would need them - your children are nothing to do with her

Does he want them because he is taking them to her home country?