Minor Travel Consent Letter Sample Template

Check for an official form first. Some airlines, cruise lines, schools, and government offices require their own document.

Use this sample only when no official form applies. It is not an airline form, a cruise form, or a government form.

If Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, Disney's reservation workflow, Canada's government template, South Africa's suggested format, Mexico SAM, the Dominican Republic digital permit, Costa Rica Article 49, or Brazil's conflicted process applies, do not treat this sample as the document to use.

Here is a printable sample. Download the PDF or print this page. Check for an official form first.

Requirements vary by carrier, destination, and receiving authority. An official form or different wording may be required.

If the recipient requires notarization, do not sign the letter until the notarization.

A minor travel consent letter is written permission from a parent or legal guardian for a child to travel alone or with another adult.

This sample includes the child’s name, whether the child is traveling alone or with a named adult, the destination and dates, parent or guardian contact information, and a signature line. It does not include a notary certificate.

Use an official carrier or government form instead when one is required. Start from the Family Travel Center and check travel requirements before relying on a generic letter.

This sample may help when no official carrier or government form controls and the recipient will accept a generic permission letter.

It can describe a child traveling with a named accompanying adult, or a child traveling alone. Traveling alone in this letter is not airline Unaccompanied Minor service. See child traveling alone and the international flight sample.

Start from the Family Travel Center, then check the destination comparison, cruise overview, airline overview, and airport urgent guide.

Who must sign depends on actual legal authority and the recipient's rule. Some situations need both living parents or every person with decision-making responsibility. A court order can change that.

Whether separate signatures or separate copies are accepted depends on the recipient. See parents in different countries.

Fill in the child’s name, who is traveling with the child, destinations, dates, and parent or guardian contact information. Leave a second signature line blank if another parent is not signing.

Do not sign the letter before a notarization if the recipient requires the signature to be made in front of the notary.

Not always. Whether notarization is required depends on the carrier, destination, government authority, court order, or organization receiving the document.

Some recipients require notarization. Some recommend it. Others do not ask for it. If notarization is required, leave the signature unsigned until the session.

The right notarial certificate depends on the document and the recipient’s instructions.

This sample is the letter only. It does not include a notarial certificate.

The receiving party may require an acknowledgment, a jurat, witnesses, specific wording, or no notarization at all. The proper certificate depends on the document and those instructions.

When the recipient requires a jurat, leave the letter unsigned until the notarization. The signer signs or affirms it during that session.

Do not use this sample as a substitute for an official cruise-line form, an airline Unaccompanied Minor form, a government template, or a government exit process.

Do not use it for Mexico SAM, the Dominican Republic digital permit, Costa Rica Article 49 when that process applies, or Brazil's source-conflicted exit authorization.

An overseas parent may use this generic sample only when the correct document is a generic letter, no official form or process controls, the recipient accepts the execution method, and remote online notarization is permissible and accepted. See parent abroad child travel consent.

Canada's current guidance is a useful conceptual model: when neither parent accompanies the child, parents may sometimes sign one letter together or separate letters. That is not universal. Whether separate signatures or separate copies are accepted depends on the recipient. See parents in different countries.

If an official carrier form, government template, or government process applies, use that instead of this sample. iRemoteNotary does not rehost official PDFs or process portals.

Start with the Family Travel Center and Child Travel Requirement Checker.

If medical permission is also needed, use the medical consent for travel sample separately. For a cruise, check the cruise sample only after official carrier forms. For a school or youth trip, see the group travel sample.

For international air travel, see the international flight sample, international flight child travel consent, and airport emergency child travel consent.

Check the official page again before you travel.