Someday, something in the life of every person happens for the first time: the first step, the first class, the first outing into the forest with friends, and finally the time has come for the very first long-awaited trip abroad. Interest and excitement take possession of a person, because ahead is unknown. And it’s better to start with more accessible countries that are clear and closer. They will be comfortable for any traveler. Neither age, nor the language barrier, nor any other nuance will take away the beginner's sense of confidence and positiveness during the trip.
It is necessary to prepare carefully for foreign routes, to draw up documents in advance. This is especially important for those travelers who travel to another state with their children.
Notarial Permission
When traveling abroad with children, there will never be problems if you know the procedure for the export of younger family members abroad. However, there are frequent cases when citizens get confused in legal nuances, not understanding why they are not allowed to leave the country with their children. The rules for traveling with minors provide for qualified and timely actions to draw up a power of attorney to accompany a child.
A notarial permit, issued in accordance with all the rules recommended by professionals of the Federal Notary Chamber, will never become a stumbling block for traveling with children abroad.
Power of Attorney Requirements
Notarized consent must be drawn up in accordance with the following requirements:
- The document is printed on the office form. The authenticity of the details is certified by an individual notary public apostille.
- On a trip you need to have with you not only a Russian-speaking power of attorney. Therefore, it is translated: into the language of the state where the trip is planned, and into English.
- The documents must indicate the name of the state planned for the visit. If these are the countries of the Schengen agreement, then they do not need to be listed, it is enough to make a postscript, for example, "to Estonia and other countries of the Schengen zone."
- The permit contains clear information about the timing of departure of a young citizen outside his state. This kind of document can be immediately drawn up before the child is 18 years old, provided that he visits the countries marked on paper.
- The child’s absence of one of the parents, in the case of an incomplete family, must be confirmed by a certificate.
- If the children do not leave the country with their parents, then the power of attorney to accompany the child on the trip should contain the personal data of the responsible person.
- For any trips to foreign countries, you need not only a passport, a visa and paper to cross the border, but also a notarized photocopy of your child’s birth certificate.
Registration of a power of attorney at a notary
Any legal office where a professional public notary practices, has the authority to issue permits or consents for foreign travel of minors. For this, there is a special power of attorney to accompany the child. When preparing a document, attention is focused on the following main points:
- information about parents: according to passport data;
- Information about the child: based on the birth certificate or passport of a minor citizen;
- data on registration at the place of residence of parents and children under the age of 18 leaving the country;
- detailed passport details of the person who is entrusted with accompanying children on a foreign trip;
- terms for which this permission is issued.
There are no special rules governing the time for the export of young fellow citizens to distant countries. The power of attorney to accompany the child loses its validity after the expiration of the period specified in the notarized document.
Each country has its own rules.
In the Russian Federation, the departure of minors from the country is regulated by law. If the trip is carried out together with one of the parents or with the adoptive parent or guardian, then the consent of the other parent is not required. This decision also applies when the parents are divorced, but take part in raising the child.
This rule applies only to departure from the Russian Federation, but not entry into a foreign country. Each state has its own laws and regulations related to border crossing by minors. So, in many countries of the Schengen zone and Kazakhstan, a young traveler will be allowed only with written consent to leave the child abroad from a second parent. This is necessary even if he is traveling with his mother or father. However, if the second parent avoids raising the child or is hiding, then his consent is not required. Then this fact must be documented.
About requirements of other countries
Most countries, if a child crosses the border in the absence of parents, accompanied by third parties, ask for consent from both mom and dad. As a rule, such permission is required by European states to leave the child. Otherwise, the beloved child is deployed on the border in the opposite direction.
In a number of countries, such as Belarus, South Ossetia, Ukraine, Abkhazia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, when children under 14 years old without parents enter, they require notarized consent of one of them for the child to travel accompanied by other relatives or a trainer, as well as a birth certificate with a seal Migration Service on Russian citizenship.
Requirements may vary, as, for example, in Kazakhstan. According to the latest data, upon entering the Kazakh territory, the consent of two parents is required in any case.
Such information should be clarified and take into account the requirements of other countries regarding the entry of children into them. This can be done at the relevant embassies, consulates and customs services.
If you receive parental consent at the office for traveling abroad of a minor, you must carefully check all the data indicated there.
When the second parent disagrees
It happens that parents cannot come to a single decision on the departure of their beloved child outside of Russia. The fact that the father or mother does not give consent for the child to travel abroad, they have the right to declare to the migration office. The data will be transmitted to the border guards, and the departure of the minor will be temporarily restricted. Such a parental dispute is resolved only in court.
At the same time, the law does not require reporting, and the notary does not intervene in a situation where one or both parents express their consent to the long stay of their child in a foreign country. How the upbringing and medical care of the minor is carried out in this case, remains in the zone of responsibility of the parents, because some children spend long years of study outside Russia.
Power of Attorney for Mentor
Many remember the times when the country lived behind the Iron Curtain. Then children without parents could go only to visit their grandmother or to a children's recreation camp on a union permit.
Now many routes in Russia are open to young travelers. Unusually, your beloved children can rest outside the country, participate in collective excursion tours, go to study abroad or in another region of their country, take part in championships or creative competitions anywhere in the world.
The only thing adults need to worry about when sending children on tour with a trainer or teacher is to issue a power of attorney to the teacher to accompany the child. When traveling inland, the signature of one of the parents will suffice. If we are talking about abroad, you will need to fill out a special notarial form of mutual consent of the parents to leave the minor accompanied by the teacher.
A trip to Russia without parents
Formally, legalized documents are not required for transporting children across Russia without parental support. Often minors go on holiday with close relatives or other authorized adults.
However, according to internal rules, individual carriers may require a power of attorney to accompany the child in Russia.
Such a document is useful because in an unusual situation it will save the accompanying person from the need to prove that the child really travels with him. It will be difficult to prove this even to grandparents, because there are no records of kinship in birth certificates or in the passports of close relatives.
Although independent trips of children from a certain age are allowed on certain types of transport: from 10 years by train, from 12 years by plane and bus, but such trips are unsafe. And during curfew, children can be sent by police to the station. It is impossible to prove to police officers that young travelers are accompanied by adults on a trip without a power of attorney. This must be taken care of in advance.
Power of attorney for escort in Russia
A document for a grandmother or another adult accompanying a child on the way can be written by hand or printed using office equipment on a regular sheet of A 4 format. There are also ready-made forms to fill out.
In the power of attorney to accompany the child, the passport data of the parents of the young traveler, detailed information about the child himself and about the person accompanying the minor on the trip should be covered. In addition, the powers of a trusted adult should be spelled out in the document, the terms of the power of attorney and the date of its preparation are indicated. The signatures of the parents sending the child on a trip to Russia should be approved by the seal of the organization where they work, or notarized. When traveling abroad, only a notarized power of attorney is valid.
Where a power of attorney may be required to accompany a child
Permission from parents can be claimed not only during transfers from one settlement to another, but also in other situations:
- at hotel service;
- in case of misunderstanding related to the presence of minors on the street during curfew;
- when contacting medical institutions.
Ignorance by adults of the rules related to accompanying children on trips and taking minors to rest or study abroad does not relieve parents of the obligation to comply with the requirements of the law. Border guards will not make discounts.
So that the long-awaited trip is not frustrated, all documents must be prepared in advance.