In this COUNTRY the following people can perform surrogacy processes:
Colombia is a country where surrogacy is now practiced by clinics. There is no specific law on surrogacy, although the courts end up withdrawing custody from the surrogate mother since she has no genetic link with the baby.
There is no explicit surrogacy law in COLOMBIA. This is something you have to take into account if you finally choose this country to become a father.
Once the baby is born, a process of eliminating the maternity of the surrogate mother takes place. It will be proven that the baby has a genetic link with the intended father, and on the contrary has no link with the surrogate mother. The court definitively disassociates the surrogate mother from the baby, by means of a judicial sentence.
As of today, no bill has been presented that intends to regulate surrogacy in Colombia and according to interviews with the Minister of Justice and Law, it will not be presented for the time being due to the complex legislative agenda.
For the above reasons, the information that surrogacy processes in Colombia will be closed as of September 2023 is denied
LEGAL WARNING: Obviously, we cannot guarantee that there will be a bill in the future, for or against surrogacy, something that can happen in all countries. However, no new law can be applied with retroactive effect, so, when there is a normative change, the ongoing processes are respected. This happened in the other countries where there was a legislative change against surrogacy: VIETNAM, LAOS, CAMBODIA, MEXICO, RUSSIA, NEPAL, or THAILAND.
However, if the absence of legislation is a problem for you, you can do the process in the other countries where Gestlife has its own offices, and they have programs for single men and homosexual couples as well.
After birth, the intended parents must register the baby in the civil registry of BOGOTÁ COLOMBIA, for this purpose, a birth certificate issued by the clinic must be provided.
The maternity claim will be initiated by the surrogate woman. In this way, the Colombian passport, and safe passage (depending on the nationality of the parents) is obtained. Or you can wait until your consulate issues the passport from your country. Consult your case with your family advisor at Gestlife.
In the case of unmarried males, the surrogate woman appears on the birth certificate. Subsequently it will be removed when the court accepts the claim (which always happens because the mothers have no genetic link with the child.)
Renunciation of the surrogate: transfers the maternity rights of the surrogate carrier to the intended parent.
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Our staff will assist you in our office in Bogota, Colombia in your language. In a process where legal issues are mixed with medical issues, it is important to speak the same language and understand each other. With Gestlife, you will never feel like a stranger in a foreign country.
It is something that seems obvious, but with some agencies, you are lucky to speak to an advisor in your language. As soon as you sign the contract, the rest of the staff most likely does not speak English, and you have to have a translator. Make sure if you talk to other agencies that this doesn’t happen. A year and a half (the length of the surrogacy process) having to speak in other languages is very stressful.
Gestlife has its own office in Colombia. We are not intermediaries. We are not a company that does not have an office in Colombia which uses an intermediary in another country that has an external collaborator. Too many middlemen.
Gestlife has lawyers in its office in Bogota, Colombia, to assist you throughout the process.
If you would like more information about our programs, you can make a free, no-obligation telephone appointment by CLICKING HERE.
Most "agencies" finish their work when they deliver the baby to you. Then can help you to leave the country, but then, it is up to you to register your baby in your country of origin. At Gestlife we have a network of lawyers in all countries to take care of the final process in your country of origin that will allow you to register your child without problems.
We try our best to make the surrogacy process a pleasurable trip, not a nightmare. But mishaps can always arise which can endanger the biological parents (illness, accident). Gestlife takes care of managing your travel needs by providing insurance to guarantee you complete assistance in case of any incident. We take care of managing and organizing all the services related to these issues so that you do not have to deal with it. Our philosophy is to take care of the parents 24 hours a day.
A surrogacy process in Colombia costs between 68.000 and 86.000 euros depending on the program.
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In all our countries, you can contract the following programs:
Gestlife is one of the few agencies that have programs for parents who test positive for HIV, Hepatitis, or venereal diseases. Nowadays, this is not impede to parenthood. If this is the case, consult with your family counselor, and we will be happy to help you.
If you would like more information about our programs, you can make a free, no-obligation telephone appointment by CLICKING HERE.
As in most of the countries, the gestation that is being done in COLOMBIA is the Gestational or total gestation. It is when the pregnant woman does not provide genetic material which prohibited in most of the countries that do surrogate gestation. The genetic material is either provided by the intended parents or through a female donor since in this country there is no judicial orders, paternity is determined by affiliation, and the father must prove his biological relationship with the baby. The female donor can be anonymous or chosen. Donors are usually women between 18 and 26 years of age, healthy, so they undergo a strict medical and psychological evaluations, which guarantees their state of health.
| ADVANTAGES | DISADVANTAGES |
|---|---|
| They offer fixed-price programs that include most of the possible contingencies. In the vast majority of cases, there are no extra costs. | No passport is issued but the baby will have a birth certificate and will be in the civil registry |
| The cost of a process is much lower than in the USA. Most programs range from 60,000 to 75,000 euros in total. | |
| GESTLIFE has its own offices and personnel dedicated to the whole procedure l and follow-up of the processes. |
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