Expat Family Forced To Stay (Almost)

[ghost]

You were lucky. We were stopped one night and not allowed board. For the lack of an original marriage cert. 5 other couples w/ kids were also bounced. I knew the VP of American and called him the next AM. Only to learn the it was "Screw American Airlines Day" they pay a hefty fine for every bounced passenger because AR immigration puts the responsibility on the airline check-in folks.
We went back the next night with the Original Papers,PLUS some. And blew through boarding. No one even looked at the papers. Argentine continuity at it's best.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Adult as in 20s or adult as in 40s? Argentina only signed the convention in 1991 and the USA is not a signatory, perhaps she was already old enough in 91 that it either didn't apply / they couldn't be bothered to ask or (most likely!) it wasn't even being enforced yet.

In 1991, my daughter was three. She returned with his frequently to Argentina over the next 15 years, but only rarely were all three of us on the same flight. Still, it was never an issue.

 

[citygirl]

Actually, wongjoh wrote:



It looks like that the Libreta Familiar was all they needed, instead of the birth certificates + translations. They were all traveling together, on the same flight.

I think we're talking at cross purposes. The OP said they needed the permission to travel doc in addition to the other docs. Not talking about anything other than the permiso de viaje doc. And my point was I don't understand why they needed that if they were traveling all together - not talking about any of the other docs. Maybe that clarifies for you?

Syn - you're lucky. We have to show the birth certificates as well as the Arg passports every time for Max and Em. The BCs obviously confirm Martin and I are their parents. That's leaving Arg, they haven't asked us leaving the US, just want to see their passports (both).

 

[Tangerine]

Adult as in 20s or adult as in 40s? Argentina only signed the convention in 1991 and the USA is not a signatory, perhaps she was already old enough in 91 that it either didn't apply / they couldn't be bothered to ask or (most likely!) it wasn't even being enforced yet.

Argentina was enforcing having the other parent’s permission to leave Argentina with an Argentine child in the 50s.

 

[prettejohn]

We all had Argentine DNIs with extrajenero written on them. The only reason they wouldn't allow us initially on the flight was because the birth certificates were not translated. We were told that we would have to go to the centre of Buenos Aires on the Monday (we were flying on a Saturday).

We were sent to the migration office in Ezezia where both my children and wife were tears whilst we were dealt with by some official who was completely disinterested in us. A security guard came over to see us and said we needed to not lose our tempers, remain calm and he was sure that eventually an exception would be made. This was the case especially as our children look very similar to me, their father. There was a point where I simply said we would cut up our DNIs and would like to leave the country as tourists and never return.

On our return we were through migration in 5 minutes with no need to show anything except for our DNIs and passports. This despite the fact that I had got the birth certificates all translated in the UK.

I'm definitely against child trafficking but not if it results in pointless bureaucracy and complete inconsistency.

Interestingingly it seems that wongjoh was travelling (or not) on the same day but wasn't so lucky. http://baexpats.org/...they-have-dnis/

Everything is getting more difficult here for expats it seems..