British nationality

elsien

It hasn't but I recently read a newspaper article where it had and came completely out of the blue - person or their family had no inkling at all.
‘Something happened, somehow something got mixed up’: the at-home DNA test that changed two families for ever | Family | The Guardian

On the dog front, the picture is one who is no longer with us but I don't have the heart to abolish her. The current incumbent is also an EBT cross,  best guess with staffie as well.

RAS

It always comes out of the blue, whether it's DNA or paper.

One guy I know only did DNA because his cousin was having difficulty tracing their mutual ancestors. Only they aren't related and his much loved certificate dad isn't his biological father.

There was a thread here about a husband who'd been contacted by the CSA about a child born before the marriage to an unmarried woman. The child's supposed father had asked for a DNA test after years of maintenance payments, the result of which proved he wasn't the biological father. The child's mother suggested someone else who was eventually traced, insisted on a test, and also negative. So now the CSA were after candidate three, who recalled a possible one night stand. The result was positive and the husband had a teenage surprise.

But it can also happen with paper records. I'm waiting for someone somewhere to fall over a publicly available baptism. I found the related birth in a Registry, accessing records that aren't indexed in a way that makes the situation obvious. The child was brought up in their mother's family but their exact status was unclear. I've had brief contact with two of the child's family, but it opens a potential can of worms for part of my family.

Elsewhere, it's obvious that one family have inherited a quarter of their genes from a grandfather who is not as documented. Different ethnicity, different religion but in the same place at the same time. So I can't ask anyone on that part of the tree to test in case they are half-siblings.

Historically, DNA has however proved that multiple children born out of wedlock had the same father, even if he married someone else during the relationship.

Even though I'm not personally involved, every one of these has been a physical and psychological shock. I've always spent more time trying to prove that the possibility isn't true than might seem reasonable to someone outside the extended family. It's like a gut punch and these aren't close family. 

On articles, there was one recently on pre-natal blood tests used in the US by unmarried women to determine the father of their child. These have proved desperately wrong with women marrying the wrong man, guys changing their lives to support another's child etc. 

_Penny_Dreadful

Mintyrose said:

Hi everyone after a bit of advise please, a family member has been recently informed that he has 3 children (all in their 20’s, eldestbis 27 that he knew nothing about from an on/off affair with a Filipino he worked with in UAE at time (I know! You couldn’t make it up!! 🤷‍♀️) anyway DNA tests have confirmed they are his, can they claim British nationality through their father? He was never married to the mother who went back to the Philippines each time to have each child , 

As someone who has worked out in the Middle East this is not in the least bit surprising to me.  It's not uncommon for man working away from home to have his family back in the UK and a local girlfriend.  Often the local girlfriend is from Indonesia or the Philippines as that's where a lot of the housekeeping staff come from. It is quite awkward if you ever meet the philanderer on home soil with the wife. 

Not only did your family member have an affair but he clearly wasn't using any protection and therefore putting his wife's health at risk. 

Mintyrose

_Penny_Dreadful said:

Mintyrose said:

Hi everyone after a bit of advise please, a family member has been recently informed that he has 3 children (all in their 20’s, eldestbis 27 that he knew nothing about from an on/off affair with a Filipino he worked with in UAE at time (I know! You couldn’t make it up!! 🤷‍♀️) anyway DNA tests have confirmed they are his, can they claim British nationality through their father? He was never married to the mother who went back to the Philippines each time to have each child , 

As someone who has worked out in the Middle East this is not in the least bit surprising to me.  It's not uncommon for man working away from home to have his family back in the UK and a local girlfriend.  Often the local girlfriend is from Indonesia or the Philippines as that's where a lot of the housekeeping staff come from. It is quite awkward if you ever meet the philanderer on home soil with the wife. 

Not only did your family member have an affair but he clearly wasn't using any protection and therefore putting his wife's health at risk. 

Yes, I’m disgusted to be honest, he had a lovely girlfriend and actually married her out there, but this was obviously going on in the background, I’m just glad the girl didn’t know and divorced him later in life, the Filipino knew he was engaged/married and still took part, so says a lot about both of their morales, I mean 3 kids kept from him, and an ongoing affair and he didn’t notice any changes in this woman’s body?? 🤯 he had had tests to confirm he couldn’t have children and that’s why he never wore anything 😱 idiot! And who knows how many more children will appear from the rest of the world 🤔😱🤯 he’s obviously been carrying in like this all his life, I have nothing to do with him,as you grow up you know wrong ‘uns 🙄 I’m just worried of the impact on my dad, and how he will feel some responsibility to these 3, having lost another one of my brothers children, as mother won’t let him see him, so she also had him sussed 😱

Mintyrose

lincroft1710 said:

So the mother went back to Phil for a year or so, then returned to UAE at least twice and never told family member he was a father?

Yes!! Unbelievably but true 🤷‍♀️

Mintyrose

elsien said:

Just because I’m curious, how did they manage to do a DNA test when they’ve never met him? Or did they make contact and he agreed to one?

He insisted on tests,