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Photo ID - Children

  • 12-07-2007 12:31pm
    #1
    PiperT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 306 ✭✭


    I'm booked on a UK flight towards the end of this month with my 9 year old daughter and just realised she doesn't have any form of Photo-ID as she's listed on her mothers passport who won't be travelling.

    Do minors require photo-ID to travel to/from the UK if they are with a parent ?


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  • #2
    dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭dak


    I'm pretty sure they do !. We had to get passports for 3 and 6 year olds! You can get passports through the post office in around 10 working days so you still have time!

    Correction!! Heres an extract from the Ryanair photo-Id section -

    N.B. Children under 16 years (including infants) travelling with an adult are required to have photo-ID when travelling on flights between European Economic Area (EEA) countries.Acceptable photo-ID for children under 16 is either a valid passport or a valid National Identity Card issued by an EEA country.
    Photo-Id for children under 16 years is not required in the following circumstances:
    oChildren travelling with an adult on UK domestic flights and UK-Republic of Ireland-UK routes.
    Children included on the passport of the parent with whom they are travelling.
    German children under 10 in possession of a valid German Government Kinderausweis travel document.

    As you are only travelling to mainland UK the exception applies! For travel outside the UK the child needs a passport!


  • #3
    lady_j
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭lady_j


    It used to be fine to just be on a parents passport, but now children are required to have their own id.


  • #4
    lizzyd66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭lizzyd66


    As Dak says - no photo id needed for kids between UK and Ireland under the age of 16. Have travelled over and back numerous times with my 6 and 4 year with Ryanair and Aerlingus and never asked for any - now adults that's a different story!!!


  • #5
    ironictoaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,169 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    I think you do now, I thinks its European law for minors to have a passport. I only got my own passport last year when I was traveling to the US. Never had a passport before that.


  • #6
    PiperT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 306 ✭✭PiperT


    Cheers Folks.


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  • #7
    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    creggy wrote:
    I think you do now, I thinks its European law for minors to have a passport. I.

    Not quite.

    You can no longer _add_ children to your passport but children that are already on your passport can continue to do so but must get their own passport when the parent's one is expired.


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