About Childrens Passports
Our team have successfully obtained passports for clients children.
We have the experience to help gain the best possible outcome for you quickly & at low cost.
- Our process
- Passports
FreePhone case assessment
Let’s talk about your family confidentially. We will need to have a chat over the phone about your circumstances, understanding everything you have done so far to resolve your legal issue and determine if our family lawyers can help your situation.
Book appointment with our family lawyers
If it's clear consulting a solicitor you will help your situation, we can identify the right one for your case and arrange a convenient appointment for you. We will review any documents you send us, and brief the solicitor before you arrive to maximise your time with them./p>
In depth consultation
At your meeting the solicitor will be able to provide sound legal advice indicate the outcome they expect to achieve and the legal pathway they would take with you to ensure the best possible result based off past cases and experience.
Sound legal advice & pathway forward
Armed with sound legal advice and a fixed fee quote for representation throughout the process you can then decide if you would like them to act on your behalf moving forward.
The sooner you act the better.
Leaving things to the last minute makes it more difficult for your legal team to obtain the best possible result.
Lawyers with extensive assault experience
Meet with lawyers who have successfully defended many clients charged with common assault.
- Past Cases
- Good Results
- Happy Clients
Passport basics
Before a passport may be issued to a child, the written consent of all people with parental responsibility for the child is needed. In other words, both parents must agree to and sign the application form for a passport.
If a child is in the care of the Department for Child Protection and Family Support, the CEO of the Department can consent to a passport being issued for the child.
Getting the passport
You should contact the child's other parent and ask them to give written consent for a passport to be issued for your child and sign the passport application. You should let them know the reason why you want your child to have a passport. If you are intending to travel overseas you should clearly set out the proposed dates of travel.
The Family Court requires that you make a genuine attempt to reach an agreement before asking the Court to make orders. Making an agreement outside of Court also saves you money, time and the emotional stress of a Court case. There are exceptions to this, for example, where there has been or is a risk of family violence or child abuse or where something is very urgent.
Refusing consent
If the other party refuses to give their consent and you do not fall under an exemption from the Australian Passport Office you can ask the Family Court to make an order allowing you to get a passport for your child. In most cases you will need to attend Family dispute resolution before applying to the Court. Generally mediation should be attempted before applying to the Court.
In most cases people with parental responsibility are the natural parents named on the child's birth certificate, and parental responsibility can only be removed by an Australian Court. However, where the father is not named on a child's birth certificate but has formally acknowledged paternity by signing a document to this effect, he has parental responsibility for the purposes of the Australian Passports Act 2005 (Cth) and is required to provide consent prior to the issue of a passport.
Stopping the other parent applying for a passport
If the other parent requests your written consent for a passport to be issued for your child and you do not want a passport issued you should write to them explaining the reasons why you do not want your child to have a passport.
If you cannot agree you may be asked to attend mediation. The Family Court requires that you make a genuine attempt to reach an agreement before asking the Court to make orders. If you still cannot agree the other person can apply to the Family Court for an order that a passport be issued for your child without your consent.
If your child does not have a passport, but you think there is a risk that the other parent might try to falsely obtain a passport (for example by forging your signature) you can apply for a child stop alert. A child stop alert will ensure that you are notified if someone tries to get a passport for your child.
The sooner you act the better.
Leaving things to the last minute makes it more difficult for your legal team to obtain the best possible result.
Lawyers with extensive assault experience
Meet with lawyers who have successfully defended many clients charged with common assault.
- Past Cases
- Good Results
- Happy Clients
Our process
FreePhone case assessment
Let’s talk about your family confidentially. We will need to have a chat over the phone about your circumstances, understanding everything you have done so far to resolve your legal issue and determine if our family lawyers can help your situation.
Book appointment with our family lawyers
If it's clear consulting a solicitor you will help your situation, we can identify the right one for your case and arrange a convenient appointment for you. We will review any documents you send us, and brief the solicitor before you arrive to maximise your time with them.
In depth consultation
At your meeting the solicitor will be able to provide sound legal advice indicate the outcome they expect to achieve and the legal pathway they would take with you to ensure the best possible result based off past cases and experience.
Sound legal advice & pathway forward
Armed with sound legal advice and a fixed fee quote for representation throughout the process you can then decide if you would like them to act on your behalf moving forward.
The sooner you act the better.
Leaving things to the last minute makes it more difficult for your legal team to obtain the best possible result.
Lawyers with extensive assault experience
Meet with lawyers who have successfully defended many clients charged with common assault.
- Past Cases
- Good Results
- Happy Clients
PASSPORTS
Passports
Before a passport may be issued to a child, the written consent of all people with parental responsibility for the child is needed. In other words, both parents must agree to and sign the application form for a passport.
If a child is in the care of the Department for Child Protection and Family Support, the CEO of the Department can consent to a passport being issued for the child.
Getting the passport
You should contact the child's other parent and ask them to give written consent for a passport to be issued for your child and sign the passport application. You should let them know the reason why you want your child to have a passport. If you are intending to travel overseas you should clearly set out the proposed dates of travel.
The Family Court requires that you make a genuine attempt to reach an agreement before asking the Court to make orders. Making an agreement outside of Court also saves you money, time and the emotional stress of a Court case. There are exceptions to this, for example, where there has been or is a risk of family violence or child abuse or where something is very urgent.
Refusing consent
If the other party refuses to give their consent and you do not fall under an exemption from the Australian Passport Office you can ask the Family Court to make an order allowing you to get a passport for your child. In most cases you will need to attend Family dispute resolution before applying to the Court. Generally mediation should be attempted before applying to the Court.
In most cases people with parental responsibility are the natural parents named on the child's birth certificate, and parental responsibility can only be removed by an Australian Court. However, where the father is not named on a child's birth certificate but has formally acknowledged paternity by signing a document to this effect, he has parental responsibility for the purposes of the Australian Passports Act 2005 (Cth) and is required to provide consent prior to the issue of a passport.
Stopping the other parent applying for a passport
If the other parent requests your written consent for a passport to be issued for your child and you do not want a passport issued you should write to them explaining the reasons why you do not want your child to have a passport.
If you cannot agree you may be asked to attend mediation. The Family Court requires that you make a genuine attempt to reach an agreement before asking the Court to make orders. If you still cannot agree the other person can apply to the Family Court for an order that a passport be issued for your child without your consent.
If your child does not have a passport, but you think there is a risk that the other parent might try to falsely obtain a passport (for example by forging your signature) you can apply for a child stop alert. A child stop alert will ensure that you are notified if someone tries to get a passport for your child.
The sooner you act the better.
Leaving things to the last minute makes it more difficult for your legal team to obtain the best possible result.
Lawyers with extensive assault experience
Meet with lawyers who have successfully defended many clients charged with common assault.
- Past Cases
- Good Results
- Happy Clients
