How do you prove you have full custody from overseas?

Question

My friend is a US citizen and single mother currently living overseas with her child who is also a US citizen.

She's never been married and the father's name isn't on the birth certificate. She is and has always been 100% responsible for her child. Travelling and gaining employment has never been a problem until now.

She has a job offer from another non-US organization, and doesn't expect to go back to the state any time soon. Her prospective employers are asking that she get something "The American Courts" saying that she has full custody of her child.

Can she do this online? Can the US embassy or consulate in the country she now resides help her with this?

Answer 1

I am an expert on this kind of stuff!! :o)

Seriously though, what they are asking her to get are not actual custody papers. It is simply a legal document that backs up the birth certificate.

If, in fact, they are talking about custody papers, with a custody order in place, all she has to do is call the clerk of the court clerk of the court in the area where she used to live. They can fax over papers to her for her to fill and sign out. She fills it out just as if she were filing for custody, but instead of "the father is an unfit father", she can put "the child's father is unknown. This is for proof of custody for me to have in X country."

Very simple. Good luck to your friend!!

Answer 2

All she needs to do is take the child birth certificate to the employer and proof that this child does not have a father

And tell the employer that the so call father was a sperm doner
from experience
live aboard with my sons when I went to the passport office (in the US ) They ask for proof of custody I told them that they had a sperm donner eventhough his name is on their Birth certificate
Because so many men are refuse to take care of their children
now when a woman say I don't know where he is , or he was a sperm donner people are fast to beleive her