Required Identification for Children

[beckaroo]

I hope you guys don't think I am nuts.

My husband and I are taking our children (DD13 & DS9) on their first cruise in Feb. (out of Miami) and both of them have passports. Will we need any further identification for them?

[Carolin]

No you don't. Thats all you need. Have a great cruise. :D

[imsulin]

Current Passports will do the trick! Just to be on the safe side, you might want to bring certified copies of their BC. I do that with my adult kids when we cruise. They bring their PP, I bring their BC. Enjoy your cruise!

[crusinmama06]

You aren't nuts, you are just cautious. ;) The passports will be fine. Have a great cruise! I hope they enjoy their first cruise. :D

[calikak]

DS, who is now as addicted to cruising as I am, has been on 3 weekend cruises (NCL, HAL) and 2 real cruises (Carnival, NCL), and passport has always been enough. I bring a birth certificate too out of an abundance of caution, in case for some reason I have to prove we're his parents, but I have never been asked to show it (at airports or when embarking on a cruise, or when driving over the border between the US and Canada for that matter), just the passport.

 

Enjoy your cruise!

[tmitchell82]

Our DD is 5 and we got her a passport before her first cruise. We also brought a copy of a birth certificate as well just in case. Customs only looked at the passports and no other questions.

 

Enjoy they cruise.

[sharktums]

For those of you who travel with young children and passports, have you ever gotten slowed down or detained due to an old picture?

 

My daughter got her passport at 6 weeks old, she's now almost three. We were stopped and questioned in China for about 10 minutes (was asked to provide a birth certificate and other stuff as well!) because obviously the child with me looks nothing like the six week old in the photo!?

 

Other countries will usually just look at the picture and either laugh or roll their eyes, but let us through no problem. My daughter is my own and very 'American' looking, so it's not like a weird adoption or stealing a chinese baby type thing.

 

Have any of you requested a new passport before the other one expired? Or claimed it to be 'lost' to get another one? We travel a lot, and I don't want this to keep being a problem for two more years!

[crusinmama06]

For those of you who travel with young children and passports, have you ever gotten slowed down or detained due to an old picture?

 

That's a good question. Not yet, we haven't.

[larronry]

I often worry about that. My son was older then six weeks but still had his baby look. Now he's 4 and looks like a little boy :( . To me he always look like the baby but I do worry about that.

[imsulin]

I had gotten Passports for each of my grandkids when they were born. (Well, I sent the money to their parents to get them!). The family flew to Cabo a few months ago for a friend's wedding, and there were some questions about the 2 1/2 year olds' Passport with her baby picture on it, at age 6 weeks. The main concern was that she was born with a mass of black hair which has since turned very blonde. Her Mom had also brought along a BC, but wasn't asked for it. Children's Passports have to be renewed every 5 years until they're 16 to accomodate the growth. I don't think it's necessary to have then renewed earlier than that. Enjoy your cruise!