required permissins for children of divorced parents

H · I'll Hang Around A Little Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 11

Hi wonder if anyone can advise?
I am divorced from the father of my older two children, the oldest is 18 so not a problem, the younger however is only 13, so although she lives with me and has had no contact with her father for the past 3 years (her choice) the courts still require that he gives formal permission for her to leave on a permanent basis. For a number of reasons this will take some time to obtain, although in the end I have no doubts that we will eventually get the required permission via him or the courts. The circut judge has indicated that under the circumstances he sees no problem in granting the order in the end BUT has to confirm that the father is aware of the the fact that his daughter is emigrating with me.

So question is,
are we able to submit EOI without the court order, then once selected complete and submit the PR application forms as soon as we get the required order,
OR
do we have/is it best, to wait untill we have the order before we submit EOI.

This has come as a bit of a blow as we were expecting to be able to submit our EIO this week, but if we have to wait for the order, the earliest will now be around November.

If anyone has and experience/advice it would be most appreciated,
Many thanks,
H

Junnifer USA · Testing The Water Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 6

Hello,
I can only tell you that in our case, our immigration attorney in NZ had us get permission to be included in the application. We are applying under a different catagory it seems, as investors. I don't know if that had an effect upon the advice we recieved. All I did was have him sign and notorize a 1-page document that stated that he was awaare that we were making an application for a LTBV with the intention of immigrating. It had to be notorized (in our case by a US embassy official since my ex is not in the US).
Does that help?
The attorney did ssay the next option was to approach the courts...which we avoided.