My niece was 12 years old when she travelled here as unaccompanied minor, my ex sis in law petitioned for her as IR2(minor step child of US citizen) when we booked her flight PAL had been made aware that she was UMNR(airline code for unaccompanied minor), we applied for the DSWD clearance and as far as I can remember they asked for it, this was back in 2012 and she's 22 now.