We allow the Intended Parents (you) to have a definite say in who you will be matched with. We will provide you with the redacted profiles of the surrogates that we feel would be good possible matches. Some of their personal contact information will be removed at this point to ensure their privacy until chosen. During this initial review, you will have an opportunity to assess a variety of information and characteristics such as family situation, her support system, her history with pregnancy, her insurance options, her employment, etc.  

Once you select an ideal match for you, we will set up a phone call, Skype, Oovoo, Facetime, etc. for you to have a “face to face” conference with all parties, including ourselves, to meet and greet one another.

If all parties are happy, we will coordinate the registration of the GC to the medical provider of their choice. If they do not have one, we will happily recommend several top choices with whom we have had outstanding results.

We then will monitor the GCs’ medical protocol as assigned by the medical provider to ensure that she is following it to the letter. Any expenses that are required for medicine and doctors’ visits will be taken care of by us via an escrow account that has been established for you.

Additionally, we will facilitate any necessary psychological appointments to ensure that all parties are on board with any relevant issues.

As you begin making these important decisions about surrogacy and which agency to use, it is so very important that you choose an agency which is run by a reproductive law attorney. That way, the legal fees are included in the agency fee.  

As an ART attorney and leading industry expert on reproductive law, Sara Clay (TPI's founder) will represent you personally in all legal matters. With over a dozen years of experience in the field of ART and hundreds of successful surrogacy cases, you can be sure that we have seen it all and have time-tested processes in place to make sure your surrogacy experience goes smoothly from start to finish.

In addition, we will ensure that the GC is legally represented by a trusted colleague who will zealously represent the GC without being unnecessarily litigious.

Part of the contract we will have in place will serve as a “Legal Clearance Letter” to be sent to the medical provider. This is a requirement of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (the regulating organization for reproduction) and must be created by an attorney who specializes in this field.

An independent Escrow Agent will be put into place to coordinate all necessary payments to each of the parties throughout the process, and we will continue to keep in touch with all parties from start to finish. Although we recommend our agent as he is an insured, certified agent who is also a reproductive law attorney with his own personal experience, the parties are free to make their own payment arrangements.

Then, the second phase of the legal process occurs (the first being the contract) is the Pre-Birth Order, or “Parental Establishment Phase”. This is where our expertise and many years of experience and contacts really come into play. Because of our longstanding relationships at the state government, we are able to get their compliance within three weeks and I can typically get a hearing upon request.

In essence, we are able to ensure that the local courthouse will conduct the necessary hearings to rule that the surrogate is not the "legal" mother simply because she is the birth mother. Instead, we are able to get the IPs (you) declared the legal parents of the child long before he/she is born. Because we have brought hundreds of these cases to the same courts, this process generally goes very smoothly with few unexpected surprises.

 So, in addition to getting you favorably received by the hospital (as we now have a certified court order declaring you as the legal parents and rebutting the legal presumption that the birth mother is the mother) we can also secure a birth certificate in both of your names immediately after the birth!  

With our connections at the local passport office, we can get the baby’s birth certificate expedited within a matter of days. We can then get an expedited passport with our connections in the visa office (if needed). 

If you are traveling to us from outside of the US, the last piece to the puzzle is the need for an apostille stamp for those countries involved in the Hague conference (most European nations). We can obviously handle that for you on an expedited schedule as well.