Travel contact sheet for a child going to Mexico

What this sheet is, and what it is not

It is a reference page, not an authorization. It gives nobody permission to do anything and it does not replace a travel consent letter. For a child who travels alone or with an adult other than a parent, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) strongly recommends a letter authorizing the trip, and says it should give the child’s name and birth date, the names and contact details of the custody adults, who is accompanying the child and how they are related, the purpose of the trip, and the dates and places of travel. ^[1] If you need that letter, our child travel authorization for Mexico is the one to buy. This sheet is the page you carry beside it.

The gap it fills is ordinary. The CDC tells families to plan for the unexpected before they leave, including getting travel insurance and packing a travel health kit. ^[2] For Mexico it adds that travelers should review what their health insurance plan covers during the trip and consider travel health and medical evacuation insurance. ^[3] Whatever you decide about insurance, the sheet gives the plan and the policy number a fixed place next to the child’s name.

The CDC also tells travelers to bring the medicines they may need, warns that some prescription drugs may be illegal in other countries, and says to call Mexico’s embassy to verify that your prescriptions are legal to bring. ^[3] The sheet lists each child’s medicines and allergies so the adult can read them out, but it is not a prescription or a medical record, and it cannot tell you whether a medicine may enter Mexico. Ask the embassy.

We do not print an emergency number. The CDC’s Mexico page, last reviewed on September 3, 2026, says to dial 066, 060 or 080 for emergency services. ^[3] We could not confirm on an official page whether that list is the complete, current picture, so the sheet leaves a line where you write the number your hotel, host or airline confirms. A wrong number on a page that someone will read in a hurry is worse than a blank line.

It suits a grandparent taking grandchildren to visit relatives, an aunt or uncle with a niece and nephew, a teacher or coach with a few students, or a parent who wants a spare page in the child’s backpack. It holds up to six children, one or two contacts at home, and an optional contact who lives at the destination.

What the sheet includes

• Each child’s full name and date of birth, with allergies and medicines if you choose to add them (up to six children)
• The adult traveling with the child: name, relationship and the phone number that will work during the trip
• One or two contacts at home: name, relationship, phone and an optional email
• The destination, the dates and the name, address and optional phone of the place the family will stay
• An optional contact who lives at the destination
• Optional health insurance: the plan and the policy or member number
• A line to write the emergency number you confirm for the destination
• A plain statement that it is a reference page and not a consent letter or an authorization
• English and Spanish side by side on U.S. Letter paper, with no signature block and no notary block. One page for a simple trip, two when you add several children and every optional line

How it works

1. Fill in the contacts at home, the traveling adult, the children and the trip. Skip the optional lines you do not want to share.
2. Look over the free, watermarked preview. Nothing is stored to make it.
3. Pay once ($1, no subscription) and download the PDF.
4. Print it and write the emergency number you have confirmed on the blank line.
5. Give it to the traveling adult with the passports and any letters, keep a photo of it, and send each contact at home a copy.

Is there a free official form?

We found no official contact sheet for a child’s trip, so you can make this page yourself in a word processor: it is a table of names and phone numbers. We charge $1 for the bilingual layout and for the checks that the dates are in order and that each child is a minor on the day of departure.

Before you go, the CDC recommends enrolling in the State Department’s STEP. ^[2]

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