Did you know there is a system in place to avert your child being taken outside the United States?

Many service members marry foreign nationals, sometimes things don't work out leading to a happily ever after situation. If you are in this type of situation did you know about:

"Parents may enroll their U.S. citizen children under the age of 18 in the Children’s Passport Issuance Alert Program (CPIAP), one of the Department of State’s most important tools for preventing international parental child abduction. If a passport application is submitted for a child who is enrolled in the CPIAP, the program allows the Department of State, Office of Children’s Issues to contact the requesting parent(s) to verify whether the parental consent requirement for minors has been met."




http://travel.state.gov/content/childabduction/english/preventing/passport-issuance-alert-program.html