Chris Pipes of Deep Water Cay on Grand Bahama Island in The Bahamas www.deepwatercay.com tells us it is getting increasingly important that single parents traveling internationally with children have in their possession a signed travel consent form from the other parent. The consent-form requirement, which varies from country to country, is designed to prevent child abductions. Pipes says he became aware of the need for such a form because he is hearing reports of problems cropping up on father/son, father/daughter trips. “At Deep Water Cay, we strongly suggest the parent bring along a notarized letter indicating that the child has the permission of the other parent to be traveling internationally with him or her. We have heard that it is becoming a common practice for customs/immigration to ask for such a letter. Please notify your subscribers about this development so they can avoid unnecessary problems.”

You can read much more about all this on the US State Department website here https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/det...ot-a-parent-or

To cut to the chase, we found a sample consent letter at the following address: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/un..._to_travel.pdf

Has anyone been caught up in this problem? We would be very interested to hear your story.

-Mike @ The Angling Report
http://www.anglingreport.com/