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My step -children's father approval letter for exiting Colombia each time??

First time poster--Utopiacowboy or any person experienced. My Colombian wife of over one year and two Colombian step-kids, aged 8 and 13, we are going through the final stages of the BCIS/INS process. Will the children be able to travel to Colombia and come back to the United States without another notorized letter of approval from their father each time they want to travel and come back? I am not sure if he will sign another letter. I was told that the childrens papers notorized with his signature will be checked at the airport customs. Are they stuck here until they reach 18 years of age if this is true? Thank you all who respond, Tony

By jake074701 on Aug 23, 2005, 09:48 in Visa & paperwork.

utopiacowboy says on Aug 23, 2005, 11:29:

They will need the notarized letter every time they travel to Colombia. My stepkids needed a fresh notarized letter from their mother a couple of months ago when they went to Colombia. They also needed a fresh death certificate for their father and fresh birth certificates. They consider any document over 90 days as stale.

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jake074701 says on Aug 23, 2005, 11:58:

Utopia Cowboy I always like it when you read the site and express your views, funny or seriously. I have read your comments over the year and always find you intelligent and interesting funny. Utopia, if their father is not willing to sign another letter notorized, he is jealous of the good life we as a family have here in Oklahoma, is there any way around this? The kids are here in US and the father is in Colombia. What if I adopt them? Or when they become naturalized citizen in 1.5 years, will that change their requirements for re entry in USA? The children are in the custody of their mother now through divorce, not sure if was in divorce decree, who has parental rights? Thank you again very much for your help

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utopiacowboy says on Aug 23, 2005, 18:32:

If you were their adoptive father, then you could sign the paper but I don't know how easy that process (adoption) would be. If they become naturalized citizens they could travel on US passports. Depending on how old they are at the time, they would become US citizens when their mother does.

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jake074701 says on Aug 23, 2005, 19:50:

thank you Utopia I guess we will have to wait until we get their naturalized papers which will happen in 2007, so I guess they are stuck here in Oklahoma, which they said is not that bad a place compared to their former life in Ibague, Colombia. Thank you much Utopia from Texas

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Michael B says on Aug 24, 2005, 04:52:

Utopia gave you the correct information. As for adopting them, I don't think that's possible unless the father is deceased (which he obviously isn't) or unless he has had his parentel rights terminated (highly unlikely, in fact I'm not sure if Colombian law even has such a thing). But the real reason I posted: Where you from in Oklahoma?

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jake074701 says on Aug 24, 2005, 05:13:

Thank you Michael B, I am here near Lake Texoma area. Thank you also for your info, apparently it is a waiting game or to re-connect nicely with the chidlrens father. Thank you much

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