Hi All
I recently re-married and my wife has a 3 1/2 years old daughter from previous marriage. I am an Indian by origin but Britisher by naturalisation since 2011. My wife will get full and sole custody and guardianship order this month as as per her divorce agreement, her ex husband has filed a petition in the court saying that he does not want guardianship and / or custody of the girl child and wants to transfer the same to the natural mother i.e my wife which is what we wanted.
My queries are
a. How to get Indian passport for my daughter (I will call her my daughter only) without her biological father's name please? Is there any way at all? He has not seen her since birth and we do not want her to know that there ever was any other person - I want to be her dad that's all. Is there any way to do this please? I do not want to even involve him in signing any passport applications etc as well. I know my wife can get a passport for the daughter on sole application but even there they are asking father's name and I can not put my name as she is not yet, legally, my daughter.
b. What is the process to be followed to adopt her as my daughter please? And how long will this happen? Is there a lengthy process because I am a British citizen though till 2011 I was an Indian citizen?
Any information would be of help.
Kind Regards
Dr Raghu