How many of you have children that have different passports to you?

[BiscuitStuffer]

DH is American and I'm not and I feel a bit wierd that my children have US passports and I don't. It makes me feel a bit nervous for some reason.

Please talk some sense in to me!

I just did mine by post. Twas easier.

Well, I just did it last month and sent my stuff to the Consulate, so I'd phone them up and ask them.

I did have to do the kids' passports in person, as they are minors and it was a first-time passport app for two of them.

Oh, right, yeah, mine have been 10-year ones for a loooonnggg time .

The consulate just does 'em by appointment for kids and you're in and out in record time.

Got the passports back in a week, too.

But my folks paid for them .

I have friends who is french and has french passport, her DH has an english passport and their DS has a NZ passport, however if they have any more DC"s they will have joint english/french passports as the law has changed recently in NZ.

I thought they were quite nice. We were in and out in 45 minutes, one of the Marines carried DDs buggy up the steps (please move the gun away from my DDs face, Sir!) and the Consular officer gave me a cup of coffee.

Then again, I did have an Epipen

DD has a different id card to me as she doesn't qualify for British nationality (or would have done if I'd had the correct info from the consulate in time, but that's another story...). What's worse is that she can go on DP's passport but could never go on mine, although that's never going to happen as I'd rather she had her own.

It's a pain as we always get the third degree at UK immigration and I always have to carry a copy of DD's birth certificate with me to prove that yes, I am her mother and not a child trafficker.

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With the arrival of DS1 I had finally caved in and gone down the double-barrelled route for my last name, so DCs' last name would at least feature in mine. I am married to their father as it happens, however have never officially changed my name until the whole issue with travelling arose.

I'm wigth little ducks but I think my dh has enough docs to get our dc his nationality without me.

I'm a little nervous.

I'm UK, ds is UK, DH isn't but has other european nationality but from a place where I'd have very few rights as a non-national.

I also hold my maiden name, ds has dh name so I need to ensure I link myself to my lovely little one.

Riven - that sounds awful. My DS has dual nationality because he was born in the US, although both DH and I are British. His US passport (which I got when we lived there) expired and I keep putting off renewing it, as it seems such a palaver. We are in Scotland and you can do it in Edinburgh but there still seems to be a huge number of bureaucratic dos and don't.

Ooops, sorry for the hijack.

OP - hope you're feeling better about things.