Surrogacy for UK couples

A record number of British children were conceived via surrogacy, according to the official data. The number of children born with the help of surrogate mothers abroad and registered in the UK during the last six years increased by 265%.

Surrogacy is prohibited in the UK. Advertising of surrogacy service and surrogate mothers’ selection are also banned in the UK. Only non-commercial surrogacy is permitted - surrogate mother does not receive money for childbearing. It’s rather difficult to find a woman who will agree to carry a child for the infertile couple. Living standards in the United Kingdom is rather high so women there are not interested at such procedures.  

Therefore infertile British families go abroad in order to use assisted methods of reproductive medicine. Ukrainian center for human reproduction BioTexCom is popular medical destination for Englishmen. Center welcomes more than 90 couples from the United Kingdom each year. At first most Europeans are afraid of traveling to Ukraine – third world county, military actions in the Eastern Ukraine, lame-duck economy, etc. But visiting Ukraine, foreigners see just another picture, with own eyes – extremely beautiful state, friendly people, and high level of reproductive medicine.

Net promoter of Ukrainian surrogacy is surrogate mothers. Surrogacy is allowed in Ukraine. And there are a lot of middle class women who agree to carry a healthy child for the infertile family from UK. These women are healthy, beautiful and educated. They participate in such medical programs due to the own needs – lack of money for close to her person’s treatment, own child’s education, accommodation problems, and others.

In Ukraine, UK citizens conduct the surrogacy program absolutely legally. Now they can receive Emergency Travel Document (sometimes known as an emergency passport). This document lets British national couples leave Ukraine with a newborn baby conceived via surrogacy in shortest terms. Reaching home couple submits documents for parental order in order to become legal parents and receive child’s registration as a UK citizen.  

It must be noted that year ago it was much harder to receive official registration in the UK after child’s birth in Ukraine via surrogacy. Earlier parents should wait about six months in order to register their child. Now the waiting time had been reduced to two months. The UK legal solution for resolving parenthood in surrogacy cases is a parental order.  This is a court order which makes the intended parents the legal parents of the child.  

Once a parental order is made, the birth will be re-registered to record both intended parents as the legal parents, and a new birth certificate will be issued. Before leaving Ukrainian clinic, parents receive surrogate mother’s official deny declaration (it confirms surrogate mother has no rights and obligations concerning child she gave birth).

A great number of UK families visit BioTexCom and successfully come back come with their newborn. Here you can see one of the stories told by one of British couples after their visit to the BioTexCom.

http://mother-surrogate.info/uk-couple-tell-success-surrogacy-story/