Can we travel within Schengen by plane with an infant without a passport?
We'll be travelling from a Schengen country to another by plane, bringing our 3 month old baby with us. It's possible that we won't have time to receive a normal passport in time for our trip, thus the alternative is an emergency passport.
The thing that worries me is that if we don't need a passport for our baby, then how can authorities know it's our baby if we get stopped for some reason.
If it's of any relevance, we're travelling from Norway to Germany, and are citizens of Norway (thus not EU citizens).
What about airline policies? We're flying with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS).
Best Answer
To give you a short answer: As a Norwegian, you do need a passport to travel to Germany (irrelevant of age).
Even if chances are very high that noone will check either your or your child's passport, foreign citizens need a passport or approved substitute (e.g. national id card from an EEA country) to enter or stay in Germany (AufenthG ยง 3 Passpflicht).
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