Gestlife Surrogacy
Legal surrogacy countries
These are the countries where surrogacy is permitted and legal.
Destinations with specific international surrogacy laws
Certain destinations have enacted specific and robust statutory legislation for gestational arrangements, strictly defining and protecting the right of the commissioning parent(s) to securely carry out their journey. Understanding surrogacy laws by country uk is vital for your safety.
These explicit legal frameworks automatically transfer all parental rights over the child from the gestational carrier directly to the commissioning parents. The countries where surrogacy is legal for uk citizens feature laws drafted by their respective parliaments or definitively modified by high court rulings, such as a Constitutional Court, granting specific family models the right to safely undertake these processes.
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These represent the exclusive legal surrogacy countries uk intended parents can rely upon to carry out their journey with absolute legal guarantees. To ensure total oversight and protection, Gestlife maintains its own physical offices and legal staff in all of these destinations, with the sole exception of Canada.
Countries
Married
heterosexual
couples
Unmarried
heterosexual
couples
Single men
Single women
Same sex
male couples
Same sex
female couples
Trans
people
United
States
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Canada (1)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ukraine
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
(if they are
not married)
Georgia
Yes
Yes
(1 year of
demonstrable
cohabitation)
No
No
No
No
No
Greece
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
(as a single
woman)
Albania
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Kazakhstan
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Armenia
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
(1) Canada is a country with an altruistic law, which prevents the commercial rewarding of the surrogate mother. Advertising for surrogacy or offering to be a surrogate mother is punishable. also, the intermediation of agencies is forbidden. The period to find a surrogate mother can be up to 5 years.
- This table is for guidance only. Please consult one of our family advisors about the special conditions in each country, as the requirements for surrogacy vary from one country to another.
