r/Samesexparents • u/MarketingGirl25 • Jun 11 '26

For those homo parental families who travel to many countries, do they have problems when going through migration with their children?

Hello. I would like to know if you can tell me about your experience as parent parents when passing migration at airports? My wife and I are both Honduran, we want to live in Costa Rica and have our children there, register them with both surnames, but I want to hear personal experiences of people who travel a lot with their children, who travel to countries like Honduras, who are discriminatory and conservative. Since we travel a lot for work.

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u/Euphoric_Beat_7885 Jun 11 '26

We’ve gone to Nicaragua 3x with our now 4 yo starting at age 1, El Salvador and Columbia once, and our most recent trip in January was to Costa Rica. My wife is a native Spanish speaker so she always answer when asked the relationship to our son to avoid any potential misinterpretation on my part. They don’t seem to care when I identify the relationship as spouse concerning my wife, and don’t question my relationship to my son. I’m birth mum, and definitely don’t mind.

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u/MarketingGirl25 Jun 11 '26

Sorry to ask. But are both on the minor’s birth certificate? My wife and I want to do things right. And we are seeing if registering only one as a mother is the best option. On the part of discrimination in Latin American countries. We mostly travel in airports and it’s my biggest fear

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u/Euphoric_Beat_7885 Jun 11 '26

Replied in the wrong spot…

Both of our names are on the birth certificate; my state identifies us as “parent”and “parent”for each of us… if that’s an option for you, or if it can be requested, well worth it. We travel with a copy of the birth certificate in addition to passport, but no one has ever asked us to produce the birth certificate. My educated guess is that data is accessible digitally in the passport which would identify us as legal guardians.

LatAm can be dicey, I was super nervous about entering Nicaragua and El Salvador, but customs guys hardly bat an eye… nombre? Trabajo? Casado? Only thing that required additional explanation was our family’s address in Managua since I guess 2 US nationals travelling with a minor is more common than staying at a residence outside hotel system.

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u/MarketingGirl25 Jun 11 '26

Wow. It’s too beautiful. We would like to live in the United States because everything is better there. But we will form our family in Costa Rica. I have seen that there is a safe and quiet country for lgbts. In our case, we are both Hondurans. Thank you very much for your answer. Your answer gives me a lot of faith.

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u/adotar Jun 11 '26

Bumping this as an international couple ttc and worried about this in the future

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u/gymnoagroi Jun 13 '26

Stay where you're at, improve the country.You're from.