A Parental Consent Letter, sometimes referred to as a Parental Consent Affidavit or Child Travel Consent Form, is a legal document that gives permission for a child to enter or travel outside South Africa alone, with a parent or other guardian.
As a result of growing concerns for the safety of minor children, new child travel regulations were introduced by the South African Department of Home Affairs on 1 June 2015 in an effort to combat child trafficking. These regulations apply to both South Africans and foreign nationals and mean that travellers will be required to produce additional documentation in addition to passports and visas (where applicable) when entering or leaving South Africa with children under the age of 18.
The Parental Consent Letter is part of the documentation. This letter is usually required by the South African Immigration Department to prove that the child has the consent of their parents or legal guardians to travel and that the child will not be abducted or taken out of the country without their knowledge or consent.
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A Parental consent letter usually includes the following information:
This letter will need to be signed and dated by you, and also notarised. If there are two parents giving permission, they must both sign. Then the letter should be apostilled. It is a legal document, and to make it all above board and entirely right, having it apostilled means that there is no chance that it won’t be accepted.
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