Having done the rounds of the Ministry of External Affairs and Regional Passport Office in search of an identity certificate for her baby, born through surrogacy, US national J. Pearllinda Van Buren is now set to approach the United States and Jamaican authorities. Ms Van Buren, whose son Emperor was born through surrogacy procedure at a city clinic last December 7, has left Hyderabad for New Delhi.

She is set to sound out the United States embassy and meet the honorary consul of Jamaica to get travel documents for her baby. Her husband, Mr Eric Dalton Green, is a Jamaican citizen, and as reported by this newspaper earlier, the New York-based Ms Van Buren wants to fly home with her child at the earliest and join her family in the United States. While Ms Van Buren was waiting for a certificate of identification from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, the ministry informed her two days ago that she would have to produce either a DNA test report or give legal adoption documents in order to get the certificate. Both US and Jamaican authorities are positive in issuing travel document for the eight-week-old infant.