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2025-06-30_SWANK_Addendum_TravelObstruction_PassportDenial.pdf
⟡ “They Called It Protection — But What They Blocked Was Her Passport.” ⟡
When safeguarding becomes sabotage.
Filed: 30 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMCOURT/ADD-PASSPORT-0625
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A formal rebuttal to the unlawful obstruction of a child’s passport renewal.
I. What Happened
In 2025, Polly Chromatic, a dual U.S.–UK national and mother of four, lawfully paid to renew her daughter Honor’s American passport — a basic act of international legal maintenance. Despite full compliance with renewal procedures, the process was stonewalled. Without court order, written notice, or legal justification, Westminster Children’s Servicesdisrupted the family’s right to travel, communicate with their U.S. consular support, and access the most fundamental protections of dual nationality.
The denial came in tandem with a sudden Port Alert, a Recovery Order, and the traumatising seizure of all four children on 23 June 2025 — escalating what was already a textbook campaign of procedural retaliation.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
There was no legal authority blocking the child’s passport renewal.
The parent’s actions were lawful, transparent, and necessary to maintain U.S. citizenship rights.
The obstruction occurred in direct proximity to protected legal activity: an active N1 civil claim and judicial review.
This reflects a retaliatory pattern: sudden safeguarding action after court filings, paired with institutional sabotage.
Westminster’s interference was not about protection — it was about power.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because a local authority blocked a passport without lawful order.
Because they interfered with international legal rights without explanation.
Because they activated a port alert against a mother they knew was litigating them — and used it to prevent lawful consular action.
Because the child was not fleeing. She was simply trying to renew her passport.
Because the real absconsion wasn’t by the family — it was by the institution, fleeing from accountability.
IV. Violations
Article 8 ECHR – Right to private and family life
Article 2, Protocol 1 ECHR – Right to mobility and education
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
U.S.–UK Consular Treaty obligations
Domestic legal standards on freedom of movement and procedural fairness
V. SWANK’s Position
We assert that Westminster’s obstruction of lawful passport processing is not only retaliatory — it is internationally unlawful.
This wasn’t a safeguarding measure. It was a geo-political gag order, dressed in social work jargon.
This wasn’t about preventing flight. It was about controlling narrative.
And this child’s travel document was caught in the crossfire.
We will not permit such manipulations to go unarchived.
We will not allow stateless coercion to masquerade as safeguarding.
We will continue to document every port alert, every delay, every obstruction.
Because denying a passport is not an act of care. It’s a symbol of control.
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