India to Enact a New Law on Surrogacy - Foreigners Barred from Seeking Services of an Indian Mother

From HG.org:

For the past two decades, India has been the place for foreigners who seek to have a child through surrogacy, the states of Gujarat and Kerala being in the forefront with well-established clinics, doctors and middlemen, all working in tandem to ensure a foreign couple or even a single parent be blessed with a child and who were ready to loosen their purse by approximately USD 30,000.

Such was the clamor surrounding surrogacy in India that it led to the mushrooming growth of several commercial firms and even law firms claiming specialty in surrogacy law and assisting foreigners to have their child in India through a surrogate Indian mother.

Several foreign companies too entered India by establishing their own companies (our firm had established one such company – Proactive Family Solutions Private limited) to assist nationals from around the world identify a surrogate mother in India, negotiate the fee to be paid by them to the Indian mother for carrying the child in her womb, navigate the foreigners through the maze of paperwork (which in fact was meagre given the fact that India did not have a law on surrogacy and will not have one till the new Bill becomes law), and even assist the child in obtaining a passport and a visa to leave the country.

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