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  • Home
  • Apply or renew
  • How it works
    • Fees
    • How long it takes
    • Renewing a passport
    • Adult passports
    • Child passports
      • 7-step guide
      • General info
      • Lodging a child passport application
      • Parental responsibility and consent
      • Inter-country adoption
      • Surrogacy
      • Child alerts
    • Documents you need
      • Citizenship
      • Identity
      • Name change
      • Gender
      • Foreign documents
    • Printing your form
    • Photo guidelines
    • Lodging a passport application
    • Special travel documents
      • Emergency passports
      • Replacement passports
      • Concurrent passports
      • Non-citizen travel documents
    • Website advice and troubleshooting
  • Urgent applications
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My child already has a valid Australian or foreign passport. How do I stop the child from travelling?

You can ask the Australian Federal Police to place your child’s name on the Family Law Watch List.

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  • My child already has a passport. Can I just take the child?
  • Child alert requests

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