Surrogacy abroad: the legal considerations

The first question is not the clinic. It is whether your home country will recognise you as the parents and issue a passport. If the answer is no, or if the arrangement is a criminal offence where you live, we stop.

Where it is lawful, the file has a lawyer in the birth country and a lawyer at home. The birth certificate has to name the people the law says it should name. A certificate that flatters you and fails a border is a failure.

We do not recruit surrogates, we do not pay them in cash, and we do not work with anyone who offers a child as a product. Coordination means the map and the documents, after two lawyers have said the map is legal.

Adoption is a different institution. If what you need is adoption, say so. Mixing the words is how families walk into the wrong statute.