I did not read all of Ben's links but returning to US is probably hardest part. From DHS:
Children: U.S. citizen children ages 15 and under arriving by land or sea from a contiguous territory may present an original or copy of his or her birth certificate (issued by the Vital Records Department in the state where he or she was born), a Consular Report of Birth Abroad, or a Naturalization Certificate. If the child is a newborn and the actual birth certificate has not arrived from the Vital Records Department, we will accept a Hospital issued birth certificate.
Note that for travel by air, passport is required.
After studying this for my kids, I decided the passport made sense in the long run, making it easy to renew for rest of their lives. One of my sons used it a few years later as an exchange student.
Great fun ahead!
Posted by: Spartan2 Posted on: May 28th, 2015 at 2:21am
You are right. Ideally the letter should be notarized.
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I think I know this but I thought I'd ask. AFAIK for a Q trip, a 14 yr old is good with a birth certificate and a permission slip singed by her mother. Oh, and she can fish for free under my conservation limit right?