2026-09-30
IVF and artificial insemination abroad
How a family plans IVF or insemination in another country: the clinic, the law at home, travel, and what a coordinator does not do.

People search for IVF abroad, artificial insemination abroad, and a clinic that will treat them when the one at home has a waiting list, an age limit, or a rule that excludes their household. The medical act belongs to a licensed clinic. The part we hold is everything around it: which country is lawful, which clinic is licensed, where you sleep between appointments, and whether a child born from that cycle will have a parentage record your home country accepts.
Rules differ. Some countries allow treatment for a married couple only. Some allow a single woman, or two women, or donor gametes, and some do not. Egg and sperm donation have their own statutes. A clinic brochure is not the law of the country you fly home to. Counsel in both places reads the file before you pay a clinic deposit.
A cycle is a calendar, not a holiday. Stimulation, retrieval, and transfer have dates that move. We book a stay that can absorb a delay, a translator for consent, and a written list of what you carry home: clinic letters, in a language your registrar can use. We do not publish success rates. A clinic that leads with a percentage is a clinic we ask harder questions of.
This mandate is not surrogacy. If another person will carry the pregnancy, that is a separate file, and only where surrogacy is lawful. We will not mix the two to make a prohibited arrangement look like a medical trip.
