Important Documents

Documents to have at your fingertips

• Power of attorney for the care of minors. Copy shared with children’s schools
• Power of attorney for decisions on property, bank accounts, etc.

Documents to have in a secured folder

• Power of attorney for the care of minors
• Power of attorney for decisions on property, bank accounts, etc
• Passports of parents’ countries of origin
• Children’s passports
• Permit to travel with minors
• Birth certificates
• Registration of birth (documents that register U.S. born children before the government of the parents’ country of origin.
• Marriage license
• Social Security cards or ITIN
• Immigration cards and A-numbers
• Driver’s licenses and other ID cards
• Copies of vehicles’ titles/registrations
• Copy of home’s mortgage or rent documents
• Any restriction orders entered against another person)
• Documents showing presence in the country for more than two years (for example, medical history documents, school reports, etc.)