⟡ **“A Letter to Confirm What Should Never Be Conceived” ⟡
— On the Curious Ambition of Relocating Children Without Telling Their Mother
Metadata Block
Filed: 1 July 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/MOVEMENT/ASSURANCE-REQUEST/2025
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Formal demand for written assurances against extrajurisdictional removal of U.S. citizen children.
I. What Happened
On 1 July 2025, Polly Chromatic issued an urgent letter to Westminster Children’s Services and Legal Services demanding confirmation that no attempt would be made to remove her four U.S. citizen children from England and Wales without her consent.
The impetus? A judicial authorisation to facilitate one-month abscondment in the name of safeguarding, apparently unaware that the term has a threshold above “because we can.”
II. What the Complaint Establishes
• Procedural breaches: tacit permission for cross-border movement without transparent justification
• Human impact: parents compelled to pre-emptively guard against institutional flight
• Power dynamics: the State’s presumption that mobility equals authority
• Institutional failure: no acknowledgement of the diplomatic or medical risks inherent in such a proposition
What is not acceptable:
That legal guardianship is performed like a sleight of hand trick—children vanish by administrative flourish.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because forced relocation by any other name remains forced.
Because the theatre of procedural consent is not consent when parents are relegated to spectators.
Because jurisdiction is not a passport for impunity, even when embossed with a Crown.
IV. Violations
• Article 8 ECHR — right to family life and procedural participation
• Vienna Convention on Consular Relations — failure to inform consular representatives
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child — primacy of the child’s best interests in cross-border removals
V. SWANK’s Position
This was not a safeguard.
This was the administrative choreography of disappearance.
⟡ We do not accept that relocation can be procedurally legitimised by opacity.
⟡ We do not accept that diplomatic obligations are optional accessories to safeguarding.
We will record every threatened departure—because transparency is not elective.
⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
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