Hyderabad, Jan. 30: The external affairs ministry has asked an American national to bring her Jamaican husband for a DNA test if she wanted to go ahead with the adoption procedure of her seven-week-old surrogate son born of an Indian mother.

Regional passport officer K. Srikar Reddy said J. Pearl Linda Van Buren Green, a 35-year-old New Yorker, had no "biological connection" with the baby. "She is saying the baby was born by the sperm of her husband. But only a DNA test will confirm that. The father has to come here or, maybe, they can match (the sperm without the father visiting India)," Reddy said.

Green, who claims she had arrived in India with seven samples of her husband's semen, had created a flutter last week when she left her son in the passport complex after being refused an Indian passport for the baby. Police later traced her through a local fertility clinic.

She had apparently declared her son, Emperor Kaioyus Van Buren Green, as an Indian while applying for a passport for the baby. But Reddy said birth on Indian soil could not be a criterion for issuing an Indian passport.

Green could not get a Jamaican passport for the baby as there is no Jamaican embassy either in Hyderabad or in Delhi. She had approached the honorary consul of the Jamaican government in Delhi, but was asked to meet the passport officer in Hyderabad, where her child was conceived in the fertility clinic with eggs donated by a Rajahmundry lady.

Sources in the passport office said the problem in getting a passport would not have arisen had at least one biological parent been an Indian. The absence of the "biological father" ' Eric Dalton Green ' compounded the problem.

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