Passport Records Request Packet — Child Passport Alert
The Privacy Act and FOIA demands — plus a court-ordered passport restriction the State Department must honor.
Passport records request packet filings are critical when verifying passport issuance, enforcing parental consent requirements, and preventing unauthorized international travel involving minor children. This federal filing, dated December 6, 2025, combines Privacy Act and FOIA requests with a formal passport alert flag submission. For additional legal context, see the Master Timeline and related custody and compliance documentation.
What the packet contains — the index:
The packet is structured to document parental rights, enforce court-ordered passport restrictions, and establish federal-level monitoring for unauthorized passport activity:
1. Cover Letter to U.S. Department of State — Passport Records Request & Passport Alert Flag – Minor Child Verification: formal request under the Privacy Act and FOIA 2. Divorce Decree Passport Restriction Notice — court order requiring two-parent consent 3. Foreign-Citizenship and Flight-Risk Disclosure — international travel risk disclosure 4. Passport Alert Flag Request — immediate monitoring and restriction request
Why this filing exists now:
Passport alert flags are not automatic — the State Department does not monitor court orders it never sees. A restriction without a flag is a paper safeguard. This filing places all four elements — the decree, the risk disclosure, the FOIA demand, and the alert request — in the official record at the same time, so no single document is lost between the family court and the State Department.
Section 1 — the cover letter to the State Department:
RE: Passport Records Request & Passport Alert Flag. The filing states the requester's formal demand to verify passport issuance, renewal, or pending applications for the minor child under the Privacy Act and FOIA. The filing names the risk in one sentence: international removal risk is present due to foreign-citizenship factors.
The divorce-decree restriction — the enforceable order:
No passport may be issued without written consent of the other parent. That restriction is a court order — it belongs in the child's file at the State Department, where it is immediately operative if enforced. This filing delivers both the order itself and the demand that the Department monitor and refuse issuance contrary to it.
“I am formally requesting verification of passport issuance, renewal, or pending applications for my minor child under the Privacy Act and FOIA.”
The requested information — four confirmations:
- Passport issuance confirmation — whether a passport was issued for the child - Application status — whether any current application is pending - Application records — the documentation supporting any application - Alert monitoring confirmation — that the alert flag posted to the file is active
What the alert flag actually does day to day:
Once posted, the flag does three things: it prevents issuance of a new passport without review; it prevents renewal without parental notice and consent; it logs any inquiry against the file. Each of those steps is an intervention — each is designed to stop the scenario this filing exists to prevent before it becomes an international law enforcement matter.
The foreign-citizenship disclosure — the documented risk:
The packet's foreign-citizenship and flight-risk disclosure exists because one parent is an international national — the exact circumstance that the State Department's alert flag program exists to prevent. Restrictions mean little if the risk is never named in the file; this disclosure names it, in writing, with the decree attached.
What the Record Shows:
This filing exists for one reason: an international flight-risk situation with a minor child, monitored at the federal level so issuance cannot happen silently, without notice, and without the court-ordered consent. The passport records act, the divorce decree, the flight-risk disclosure, and the alert flag — together — form the complete enforcement package, at this URL, dated and permanent. Whether the State Department confirms issuance, denies a pending application, or activates the alert is written in the Department's response — not in any promise this page can make, but in the record the filing demands, exhibit by exhibit, statute by statute.