Do minors have to be accompanied by guardians when traveling abroad?

Yes, minors need a guardian to accompany them when they go abroad. Article 1 6 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Minors, which came into effect on July12007, stipulates: "If parents are unable to perform their guardianship duties for minors due to going out to work or other reasons, they should entrust other adults with guardianship to perform them on their behalf."

According to the relevant provisions of the General Principles of Civil Law, parents of minors are guardians of minors. A guardian shall perform his guardianship duties and protect the person, property and other lawful rights and interests of the ward. Minors need their parents' consent and companionship to travel abroad. If he is not accompanied by both parents or one of them, his parents should entrust others or relevant organizations to send someone to accompany him. Legally speaking, this is actually a temporary guardian appointed by parents for minor children during their travel, entrusted to supervise minor children.

According to the regulations of some tourist destination countries, notarization procedures are required before entrustment. At present, minors under the age of 18 who travel to Europe and America with a group or with their parents generally have to go through two kinds of notarization at the same time:

First, the birth notarization of minors;

The second is to notarize a statement that the minor's parents or guardians agree to the minor's travel abroad.

Extended data:

Article 1 6 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Minors, which came into effect on July12007, stipulates: "If parents are unable to perform their guardianship duties for minors due to going out to work or other reasons, they should entrust other adults with guardianship to perform them on their behalf." On this basis, combined with some actual conditions, Chinese mainland has formed some new modes for minors to go abroad, which mainly include the following types:

1, go abroad with the school. Whenever the summer vacation comes, some primary and middle school students will sign up one after another and go abroad to participate in the "summer camp" activities with the school teachers. The countries visited are mainly some Asian and European countries. There are also primary and secondary school students who specialize in a certain subject and are led by school teachers to participate in some subject competitions abroad, such as the Olympic Mathematics Competition.

2. Go abroad with the team to participate in cultural performances. The process of global integration includes the exchange of Chinese and foreign cultures. For this reason, it is also one of the main types for minors to perform abroad with literary and art teams from the mainland of China. Its performance forms generally include "acrobatics" and "dancing".

3. Travel abroad with friends and family. Some parents can't go out because of their busy work, so they entrust their relatives and friends to take their children abroad for sightseeing with tour groups.

4. Go abroad to live with your father or mother. Some minor's parents are temporarily separated or divorced, one of them lives in mainland China, and the other one lives abroad. After consultation or judgment, the child goes abroad with his father or mother.

5. Go abroad to live with adoptive parents. Up to now, 7 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Ireland, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Australia and Italy, have established cross-border adoption cooperation relations with China. In other words, citizens of these countries can go to mainland China to adopt China children. As a result, many children went abroad and settled with their adoptive parents.

Baidu Encyclopedia-People's Republic of China (PRC) Minors Protection Law