Quote Originally Posted by wiggs View Post
Hi everyone... Now I'm thinking ahead and as me and hopefully my fiance get engaged in the near future id like to find out about her daughter who is 2 years old she has no birth certificate at all don't think she has been registered and her real father hasn't been around since day 1. What we would like to know is can my surname be placed on the birth certificate as her father after we get married giving her my name and then register her or can it be done before.
thou you have good intentions, I'm not so sure it would be a good idea, the embassy might get suspicious of how you can be the father when you wasn't in the phils or didn't even know her then, they could ask for a dna test, and i wonder if the embassy would say that your using fraud to obtain a visa if found out, and the child/mother could face a ban from coming to the uk..

i think it's better if the baby is not registered to register the child and leave it blank where the fathers name is, then you shouldn't have a problem obtaining a settlement visa for the mother and child then.

but maybe a filipina would have a better idea if what you want to do is legal in the phils i doubt it is thou

get her here, and then you could try adopting her or she can change her name when she is older by deed poll. i didn't bother trying to change my stepsons surname, end of the day i am his step father. and i thought it better he keep his family name.