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[quote=Anonymous]I am a single mom with two kids - kids last name is diff than mine. I always have carried notarized letters of consent. It was tough to get the most one from my kid's father, as he is not involved in our lives in many years. It is intentionally written so that it doesn't expire. For the dozen or so times I've traveled with my kids as a tourist, I've been asked for a letter once - on a trip to Mexico. They were super hardcore about it- having several different employees read it and ask me about it. I doubt we would have flown that day if I hadn't had it. So whenever we travel, the letters remain tucked in the kids passports, just in case. I have noticed that now that the kids are old enough to speak for themselves, the airline employees now sometimes ask my kids questions about why we're traveling and who they're traveling with and whether they look forward to coming home. They seem like odd questions, but I assume they are just checking to make sure that everything is on the up-and-up.

And I think the PP about dip passports was right. I have a set of those too - we use them when we're going somewhere for my work - and I have never been questioned or asked for a letter on those occasions. That's surprising because those are the times we look kinda like run-aways - often traveling with a ton of luggage and pets in tow. [/quote]

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