Need help please

[paisita1986 0]

Good morning all I know is not the right place to ask is not visa related here I go.

I am US citizen so my daughter also she hold a Colombia citizenship.

My wife US resident the three we went to Colombia to visit inlaws my wife and daughter stay today I was told my daughter need a certified letter i give concent to my wife to travel with my daughter.

Anybody that went throught this any help i will really appreciated.

Next step is having a letter then notirized and mail to Colombia.

My wife have tickets copy that we went the three together and i left.

Cheers.

JB

[cocolucho 35]

Good morning all I know is not the right place to ask is not visa related here I go.

I am US citizen so my daughter also she hold a Colombia citizenship.

My wife US resident the three we went to Colombia to visit inlaws my wife and daughter stay today I was told my daughter need a certified letter i give concent to my wife to travel with my daughter.

Anybody that went throught this any help i will really appreciated.

Next step is having a letter then notirized and mail to Colombia.

My wife have tickets copy that we went the three together and i left.

Cheers.

JB

It seems that in order for your wife and daughter to leave Colombia and fly back to the US, you need to send them the certified authorization letter translated into Spanish. Read below for details....

See this link: http://discovercolombia.com/colombia-info/entry-exit-requirements/

"ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MINORS:

In an effort to prevent international child abduction, Colombia has implemented additional exit procedures for Colombian or dual-national children under 18 who are departing the country without both parents or a legal guardian. Upon exiting the country, the person traveling with the child (or the child him/herself) must present a copy of the child’s birth certificate, along with written authorization from the absent parent(s) or legal guardian. The authorization must explicitly grant permission for the child to travel alone, with one parent, or with a third party. When a parent is deceased, a notarized copy of a death certificate is required in lieu of written authorization. When one parent has sole custody of the child, that parent may present a custody decree instead of the other parent’s written authorization. If the decree was issued by a Colombian court, it must grant the custodial parent a form of custody known as patria potestad. If the documents to be presented were prepared in the United States, they must first be translated into Spanish and then authenticated by a Colombian consul at a Colombian consulate. Then, upon arrival in Colombia, the documents must be presented to the Ministry of External Affairs for certification of the consul’s signature. Alternatively, the documents can be notarized by a notary public in the United States and then authenticated by requesting an apostille from the competent authority in the state where the documents were prepared. For more information on apostilles and a state-by-state list of competent authorities, please see our information on Legalization of Foreign Public Documents. If documents are prepared in Colombia, only notarization by a Colombian notary is required. For documents prepared in countries other than the United States or Colombia, please inquire with the Colombian embassy serving that country. In cases where the absent parent refuses or is otherwise unable to provide consent, the other parent can request assistance from the Colombian child protection agency, Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF). In appropriate cases, ICBF will investigate and may issue a document that will allow the child to travel without both parents’ consent.

*The above information was taken directly from the US Department of State website. We try to maintain updates on this page as best possible, but if you need the latest information, please refer directly to the US Department of State website. "

Edited January 12, 2015 by cocolucho

[paisita1986 0]

Thank you @ cocolucho

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[Mononoke28 135]

Good morning all I know is not the right place to ask is not visa related here I go.

I am US citizen so my daughter also she hold a Colombia citizenship.

My wife US resident the three we went to Colombia to visit inlaws my wife and daughter stay today I was told my daughter need a certified letter i give concent to my wife to travel with my daughter.

Anybody that went throught this any help i will really appreciated.

Next step is having a letter then notirized and mail to Colombia.

My wife have tickets copy that we went the three together and i left.

Cheers.

JB

JB,

Any minor who is still Colombian citizen will need a travel authorization letter from the parent who is not traveling with him/her. It has to be recent, preferable within 30 days, in Spanish and notarized. If you are sending it from the US it will have to be notarized at a Colombian consulate or apostilled by your state. Also, if it's written in Spanish it has to be translated and the translation will also have to be notarized at the consulate or apostilled.

Your daughter will need a new travel authorization letter every time she plans to travel from Colombia, even if she becomes a US citizen because again, she's still a minor and she's still a Colombian citizen.

Diana

[paisita1986 0]

Thank you all for your replies I went to Colombian Consul off in Chicago I got letter for my wife.

As they explain although she is born in the states she got Colombian citizenship now she is in Colombia in order to leave with my wife the country to return to her home country she needs an authorization letter.

FYI a dear friend of my wife went to Colombia Us born daughter she did not have authorization letter at the Colombia immigration not even ask for the father when they left the country funny isn't how the law is sometimes.

[Mononoke28 135]

Thank you all for your replies I went to Colombian Consul off in Chicago I got letter for my wife.

As they explain although she is born in the states she got Colombian citizenship now she is in Colombia in order to leave with my wife the country to return to her home country she needs an authorization letter.

FYI a dear friend of my wife went to Colombia Us born daughter she did not have authorization letter at the Colombia immigration not even ask for the father when they left the country funny isn't how the law is sometimes.

That's true, only Colombian minors need an authorization letter from the parent who is not traveling with them before they can leave the country, even if they were born in another country and have other citizenships. Any other minors (non Colombian citizens) don't need the authorization letter because as Colombian officials see it, they're only responsible for the well being of Colombian citizens.

And here's some food for thought, my sister has traveled with my niece, who is still a minor and a US citizen, to and from Mexico several times and no one has asked for an authorization letter. She always travels with it just in case but Mexican immigration officials didn't bother to ask for one when going in and out of Mexico and US immigration officials didn't either. Now THAT'S shocking!

Diana