Surrogacy Georgia
Surrogacy in Georgia is legal and it is available to patients with infertility. Georgia has become a popular international surrogacy destination for childless couples.
Georgia stands at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. It is a small but diverse country. Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, has modern facilities with beautiful old buildings.
In the past, international surrogacy has been popular in other Asian countries, such as India and Thailand. But now Georgia is a possible place for parents who want to have baby.
Advantages of surrogacy in Georgia
1. Georgia’s surrogacy agreement is backed by legal protection. Actually, it has the most favorable law in Europe.
2. Georgia makes no difference between locals and foreigners. Maternity and surrogacy programs are equal regardless of country.
3. The cost of surrogacy in Georgia is low comparing it with other countries. As such, it makes it a viable option for a couple with financial difficulties.
4. The surrogate mothers live in a clean house and have good living habits.
5. There are many Caucasian egg donors. Georgia provides a complete egg donor profile with photographs, as well as details on physical characteristics, family history, medical history, education, and occupation.
6. Genetic testing and gender selection(PGD/PGS) is possible.
7. A medical letter from a local doctor is not required as to why the parents need a surrogate mother.
8. Foreign clients do not have to travel to Georgia to sign a surrogacy agreement. Instead, they can send an apostille to allow clinic staff to sign for them. That is why surrogacy in Georgia saves costs and time for potential parents and the whole process becomes easy.
Is Georgia surrogacy legal?
Georgia has become a center of surrogacy after the cancel on international surrogacy in Asia. Under Georgian law, principals are the legal parents of the child and their name is on the child’s birth certificate.
Lots of countries prohibit or limit surrogacy arrangements to their own citizens and foreigners. But Georgia offers a legally possible surrogacy at the border for all intended parents. However, it is better to consult with the consulate to see if your country allows surrogacy as a legal parent. Although Georgia accepts couples for surrogacy, consult your local lawyer if you want to bring your child home safely.
Surrogacy is a controversial subject. This includes a discussion of social, moral and legal issues for the child and the future parents. Therefore, the legal situation should be thoroughly investigated. Georgian law gives people the right to have a child through surrogacy.
Article 141
Fertilization with donor sperm is permitted:
a) Owing to infertility, existence of the risk of genetic diseases inheritance on a husband’s part or for fertilization of a single woman, if has been obtained a written consent of an infertile
couple or a single woman. In case of a child’s birth an infertile couple or a single woman are considered to be parents, with ensuing responsibility and authorities. Donor is not entitled to be recognized a father of a child born in the issue of the fertilization;
b) Withdrawn (21.07.2010. N3553, shall come into operation from 1 December 2010);
Extracorporal fertilization is permitted:
a) For the purpose of infertility treatment, also, if exists the risk of genetic diseases inheritance on a wife’s or a husband’s part, with use of sex cells of a couple or a donor
or an embryo, if has been obtained a written consent of a couple;
b) If a woman does not have the uterus, by means of transfer of the embryo obtained in the issue of fertilization into the uterus of any other woman (surrogate mother) and its
growth. Written consent of the couple is mandatory;
For the purpose of artificial fertilization it is possible to use a female and male sex chromosomes or an embryo preserved by freezing method. Preservation time is defined by a couple’s wish, in the established order.
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Surrogacy laws in Georgia
The intended parents is the legal parents of the baby after IVF. The gestational carrier has no rights to the child and is not recognized as the baby’s legal parent.
1. The birth certificate of a child will be given in a few days after birth.
2. The names of both parents will be written in the child’s birth certificate.
3. No permission of the surrogate mothers required and no court order is required.
Future parents must have at least one genetic link with the child. This means that the potential mother or father must be biologically involved with the child. The consulates of your country may ask for DNA tests to confirm that it is yours child.
Georgia is not a big country and not all countries have embassies here. Parents should find and contact the nearest diplomatic mission that delivers citizenship and passports to child. There is a significant increase in couples from the US, Israel, the UK and Australia.
A child born in Georgia to foreign couples due to surrogacy is considered stateless. The child remains stateless until the parents apply for and obtain citizenship of their country.
The time it takes to bring a baby home depend on the parents country. It depends on the workload of the local embassy of your country and whether it is a holiday.