DNA Testing for Immigration Purposes
The process of Immigrating a family member to the United States can be an extensive and complex procedure. It takes a lot of time and money. DNA testing for Immigration purposes has come a long way in helping a piece of that process become a bit easier.
Before DNA testing, confirming your relationship meant chasing down birth certificates and other legal paper work for relationship confirmation. If the information was not complete, this sometimes meant starting the process over again…and again. Now providing evidence of a relationship for Immigration purposes is a great deal more manageable.
The Immigration DNA Testing process
The process involves making the DNA test a legal paternity test (or other relationship testing). This must be requested by the United States Embassy. Legal paternity testing includes having anyone living in the United States collected at a collection facility near their home, by a non interested third party. A client support professional will schedule the appointment based on the individuals time requirements, and will advise on what will be needed for the DNA test collection to help ensure the best possible experience. Those living overseas have their DNA test collection at the United States Embassy, or one of their affiliates. The price for Immigration testing does include shipping supplies to, and from the Embassy as well as sending the results to the Embassy. Although we don’t have any control over how long the US Embassy takes to collect DNA for those overseas to complete the DNA testing, we will help make the process easier by walking you through what steps you should be taking prior to the collection to verify you have what you need beforehand. The samples are all sent to the laboratory for DNA testing. The United States Embassy requires strict criteria for DNA test results, which we supply to them. Here at Identigene we strive to do all we can to make the process as easy as possible.