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My husband and i both are US citizens we moved to Pakistan last year while i was 5 months pregnant. I gave birth to my daughter in September. Due to personal reasons my husband and I are not living together any more I need to come back to US and for that i need to apply for my daughter. My husband is not helping in that he wont sign the consent form to apply DS-11 Please let me know what are my options. We also have a US born daughter she js 5 years old. 

 

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1 hour ago, saad2018 said:

My husband and i both are US citizens we moved to Pakistan last year while i was 5 months pregnant. I gave birth to my daughter in September. Due to personal reasons my husband and I are not living together any more I need to come back to US and for that i need to apply for my daughter. My husband is not helping in that he wont sign the consent form to apply DS-11 Please let me know what are my options. We also have a US born daughter she js 5 years old. 

 

If he doesn’t consent for you to take your child out of Pakistan, I think you’re out of luck.

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I think if you can show the embassy you have sole legal custody of the new born it may possible to move ahead without your husband but it's only a maybe. Since I assume, from your wording, that you're both still legally married. It's up to the consular officers discretion. If not, it's best you consult a lawyer.

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1 hour ago, MaxThai said:

I think if you can show the embassy you have sole legal custody of the new born it may possible to move ahead without your husband but it's only a maybe. Since I assume, from your wording, that you're both still legally married. It's up to the consular officers discretion. If not, it's best you consult a lawyer.

Being able to take a child to the US is not up to the consular officer.   It would be determined by the family court that has jurisdiction there.

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8 hours ago, saad2018 said:

My husband and i both are US citizens

You do not need your husband to complete the CRBA for the baby. Fill out the forms as the transmitting parent…because both of you are USCs and were married at time of birth..either parent can transmit. 
 

You won’t be able to get the baby a US passport without your husband’s signature. ..but you will have the CRBA and secured her future. 

You would know better if you can navigate ( pay? pray ? ) the local authorities to give baby a Pakistani passport declaring absent father. Not ideal…but at least you can get out of Pakistan if needed.

 

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You would not be allowed to bring your new baby to the US without father's permission

 

Read the case of Cuban 5 year old Elian Gonzalez that the US had to return to his father in Cuba when the mother tried to bring him to US  in 1999 / the case caused an international incident

 

 
Here a parent can not even move a child from state to state without permission from other parent if they have joint custody
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