Reply #12: Wait a minute, hold your horses... [View All]

As far as I understood, the bill said, that applicants CAN VOLOUNTARILY take a DNA test to prove their relation, to speed up the process.

If they don't then they just have to take the long and annoying paper way with many letters back and forth between france and the country of origin where often birth certificates are missing and so on.

I see this bill as a shortcut you CAN take, but you are not obliged to at all.

It has to to with the "who has to prove what". Basically the state has to prove you're not the person you tell them. But that can take years and until then you're in limbo.
If you walk up and say, here, my DNA proves I'm her daughter, then you save the state much much paperwork and you save yourself alot of time. As a possibly paperless immigrant with nothing else but my voice to prove I'm related to my parents I'd use this option in an instant!

Of course it has alwys a downside trusting a government with your DNA and I'm a distrustful person.
But being in a hopeless situation that can take years to prove your relation to a parent, this is a speedy and clean solution, in my opinion.