Dear Experts
A divorced NRI couple in gulf, where the gulf country court has ordered custoy of minor child to be with mother.
The divorced Mother wants to come back to India with her child. Child's indian passport is with father, who is refusing to give the passport. Mother is approaching Indian Embassy for new passport and Embassy is asking for father''s signature of application for making new passport (under the pretext that the passport of child is lost). father is refusing to give even signature for new passport application to Indian embassy.
Can embassy issue emergency document to child based on application of mother only ? particularly when the local gulf court has given custody of child to the mother and couple is now legally diverced aslo.
Fayyaz Ali
