biological father doesnt want to sign the consent to travel

[Jeebrel]

Scenario: biological father doesnt want to sign the consent. Daughter is 15 years old. No any kind of aupport from father for 5 years. What should i do? Please share if you have the same experience...thanks!!!

 

[truesmile]

Do you have sole custody of your daughter?

 

[Jeebrel]

Do you have sole custody of your daughter?

No ...aside from that is there any other way o can bring my faughter here anyway the father is not supporting her at all.

 

[zardoz]

No ...aside from that is there any other way o can bring my faughter here anyway the father is not supporting her at all.

Unless you have sole legal custody or a signed consent, CIC will almost certainly refuse to proceed. It doesn't matter if the father is supporting her or not because this doesn't change his parental rights. Sorry..

 

[d_j_heckford]

I could possibly give you some imput but need to know first where your visa office is located.

 

[screech339]

I could possibly give you some imput but need to know first where your visa office is located.

Not sure why location of visa office is needed. The fact of the matter is that as long as the father doesn't give consent, CIC will not proceed for PR for daughter. Doesn't matter where the visa office is. The law is the law.

The only chance the OP has in getting PR for her daughter is when the daughter turned 18 years old. Only then does the father loses parental authority over the daughter. The daughter can then make the decision herself and no longer need the father's permission to leave. The OP would then have 1 year to submit the PR application to CIC before daughter turned 19. Once the daughter turned 19, OP cannot sponsor the daughter, thus the reason OP has to submit the application to CIC before daughter turned 19.

 

[Lotus2015]

I could possibly give you some imput but need to know first where your visa office is located.

Hi,
I have the sole custody and I am unable to sponsor my son is there any way to solve this situation?

 

[SchnookoLoly]

Hi,
I have the sole custody and I am unable to sponsor my son is there any way to solve this situation?

Please don't hijack someone else's thread. IF you have your own questions please start your own thread.

 

[jpsant]

I believe that because he doesn't want to sign the paper, you will probably have to go through court to get him to sign it.

 

[Jeebrel]

thank you for all the inputs guys!

 

[swestenzweig]

Scenario: biological father doesnt want to sign the consent. Daughter is 15 years old. No any kind of aupport from father for 5 years. What should i do? Please share if you have the same experience...thanks!!!

I believe you're looking for him to sign a "Consent to Travel" form to allow you to take your daughter across the border, right? I think there's some confusion here as to whether your looking for him to consent to a PR.

My wife has joint custody of her daughter with her biological father (I am the step-father). As I am American and they are all Canadian, my wife has stipulated in the divorce agreement that her daughter's biological father would sign the consent to travel form for normal travel. So, he is obligated by the courts to do so. That being said, the US Border Services agent at the gate has never asked her to provide the consent to travel form (she has travelled across with her daughter about 5 times).

I would proceed with caution, however. I understand your frustration with your daughter's biological father, but I would strongly suggest proceeding through legal means to establish sole custody of your daughter or work out an agreement for him to consent to travel abroad. If you are trying to remove her from a bad situation by taking her out of the country (as indicated by your responses), I can understand her father's reluctance to sign that consent. In that case, her father can take pre-emptive actions that could make things a lot more difficult for the both of you.

 

[zardoz]

It's not a case of whether it's possible to get the child across the border. It's that CIC will not proceed with the application without this being resolved to their sole legal satisfaction.

 

[screech339]

I believe you're looking for him to sign a "Consent to Travel" form to allow you to take your daughter across the border, right? I think there's some confusion here as to whether your looking for him to consent to a PR.

My wife has joint custody of her daughter with her biological father (I am the step-father). As I am American and they are all Canadian, my wife has stipulated in the divorce agreement that her daughter's biological father would sign the consent to travel form for normal travel. So, he is obligated by the courts to do so. That being said, the US Border Services agent at the gate has never asked her to provide the consent to travel form (she has travelled across with her daughter about 5 times).

I would proceed with caution, however. I understand your frustration with your daughter's biological father, but I would strongly suggest proceeding through legal means to establish sole custody of your daughter or work out an agreement for him to consent to travel abroad. If you are trying to remove her from a bad situation by taking her out of the country (as indicated by your responses), I can understand her father's reluctance to sign that consent. In that case, her father can take pre-emptive actions that could make things a lot more difficult for the both of you.

Signing a document to allow to cross borders is not the same as permission to let the child leave permanently out of the country. The big difference is one can be charge with kidnapping despite allowing permission to cross borders.

CiC will refuse to give PR to a child if one parent doesn't allow it. If CIC were to go ahead (not going to happen) and process PR for daughter without parent's permission, they are, in a sense, aiding and abetting kidnapping.

 

[truesmile]

Please don't hijack someone else's thread. IF you have your own questions please start your own thread.

To me this is not a hijack. Do we not want to see practically exactly the same type of scenarios on the same thread? I know I sure do.

 

[SchnookoLoly]

To me this is not a hijack. Do we not want to see practically exactly the same type of scenarios on the same thread? I know I sure do.

I think it is. It's not exactly the same question, and it means that two discussions are happening in one thread, one is bound to get buried and it gets difficult to keep track of. If it were a resolved case that might be different, but for asking questions it's just easier and helps the thread stay organized to keep it to just one question/scearnio. That's JMO, though - it ensures everyone gets answers to their own questions.