Hyderabad, January 30: Five days after she left her infant at the passport office in the city, J Perllinda Vanburen Green has been asked by officials to produce her husband to take a DNA test to confirm their parenthood or legally adopt the surrogate child.
Green caused a flutter at the passport office here on January 25 when she left without taking the baby in protest against the so-called delay in issuing a passport to the child.
The American married a Jamaican 15 years ago but could not conceive. She lives with her husband in Jamaica. The 40-year-old woman, however, took back her son after the police promised her to secure the travel documents at the earliest.
Green had applied for the passport under the Tatkal scheme for the baby born on December 7, last year.
The woman could not secure a Jamaican passport for the baby as there is no Jamaican embassy either in Hyderabad or in Delhi. “The lady has no biological connection with the baby. According to ICMR guidelines, the parents should undergo DNA test to confirm whether they are the real parents or not,” RPO K Srikar Reddy said on Sunday. The woman’s husband has never visited India and she did not give too many details about him, he said.