⟡ Assurance Request: International Movement of U.S. Citizen Children under Care Order ZC25C50281 ⟡
Chromatic v. The Jurisdictional Escape Fantasy [2025] SWANK 29 — “You do not get to export your mistakes.”
Filed: 1 July 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/USCHILD-MOVEMENT
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Demand for written assurance that U.S. citizen children will not be removed from jurisdiction without court authority.
Court Labels:
International Jurisdiction, U.S. Nationals, Interim Care Order, Foreign Movement Risk, Westminster Legal, CAFCASS, Consular Oversight, Family Division Case No: ZC25C50281
Search Description:
SWANK demands assurance children will not be removed from UK without court and parental consent; diplomatic referral pending.
I. What Happened
On 1 July 2025, Polly Chromatic, founder of SWANK London Ltd., issued an urgent assurance request to Westminster Legal and Children’s Services, copying U.S. consular officials and relevant authorities. The request, filed under Family Court Case No: ZC25C50281, demanded confirmation that none of the four U.S. citizen children subject to an Interim Care Order would be removed from England and Wales without:
The express written consent of both parents, and
Prior permission of the Family Court.
The request invoked not only ongoing domestic proceedings, but international protections and oversight from the U.S. Department of State, CAFCASS, and judicial review proceedings already in motion.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Westminster has failed to proactively confirm jurisdictional boundaries regarding international removal.
There is a credible legal risk that children with dual rights may be transferred without lawful consent.
Medical risk factors and ongoing legal proceedings are being ignored in favour of logistical control.
A failure to respond within 48 hours triggers automatic escalation to diplomatic and court authorities.
The U.S. Embassy has already been looped into a system that has repeatedly failed to manage its own jurisdiction.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the same institution that couldn't handle local safeguarding cannot be trusted with international discretion.
Because you cannot detain children one week and contemplate their export the next.
Because legal silence, in the context of foreign nationals, is not discretion — it’s breach, at scale.
Because SWANK does not ask institutions to behave. It gives them deadlines.
And because every quiet decision made about these children is now a matter of global record.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989, §33 – Local authority does not have power to remove child from jurisdiction without court order
Family Law Act 1986, Pt. I – Jurisdictional limitations over child movement
HRA 1998, Art. 8 – Protection of family life, esp. for dual-national children
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Art. 36 – Duty to notify and consult U.S. authorities
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Art. 10 – Family unity in cross-border cases
V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t an inquiry. It was a jurisdictional line drawn in archival ink.
We do not accept informal transfers of children with formal rights.
We do not accept bureaucratic absconding disguised as discretion.
We do not accept international law being used selectively, when convenient.
You removed the children unlawfully. You do not now get to remove the country.
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