NATIONAL women’s footballer Jodian Morris believes her football future could be in jeopardy if she does not resolve a problem she has been experiencing with her passport since last year.

The Jamaican Under-17 and Under-20 striker, who is in her final year at high school, hopes to take up a football scholarship very soon, but at present she would be unable to do so because of her current passport and birth certificate dilemma.

Morris said she has been using the surname Morris during her high school years, but claims her registered name on her birth certificate is Jodian James.

She explained that she was registered under James by her mother, who was then married under the same name.

But after finding out she was fathered by a man with the surname Morris, she decided to use the name.

However, everything was going smoothly until 2009 when her passport expired.

“I was using it (passport) for five years, but I didn’t start travelling until in the third year which was 2007. First to the Bahamas, then Antigua and then Trinidad,” Morris said.

“But then it (passport) expired last year, and I told my father that he should let us deal with it, but he never found the time,” she added.

“One morning I went to the Passport Office (to get the passport renewed) and got through with everything, but the lady that typed up the file said she could not put my name on the system because the system had changed and she was not allowed to do that,” Morris said.

She said the woman at the Passport Office recommended that “I do a DNA test with my father. She’s not the only one to tell me that, even some police officers told me that it’s better to sort out my birth paper first,” the diminutive attacker revealed.

But one of Morris’ biggest obstacles is getting the $40,000 required to do a DNA test so she can re-register.

Though she can get the passport by using the registered name James, she refuses.

“I have gone through school and everything else as Morris, and that’s the name I want to use,” she noted.

She said because of her problems with the passport, she was not able to compete for the Under-17 women’s team that recently completed World Cup qualifiers in Costa Rica.

Morris said she also sought the intervention of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) in helping her resolve the matter, but that, she claimed, did not bear fruit.

“I’m a player who is well dedicated to the national team, so I don’t see why they could not have sort it out for me,” she said.

And with no one to assist with the funding for her DNA test, the young player is left pondering her future.

“If things work out I will take up a scholarship and I could see where I go from there, But until I can get it dealt with, I cannot think of travelling again,” she said.