Surrogacy and Egg Donation in the U.S. for International Intended Parents
With 20 years of experience, Donor Concierge searches a broad network of U.S. surrogacy agencies, egg donor agencies, and sperm banks to find the donor or surrogate you have in mind, wherever you live. Your criteria drive the search — not agency partnerships or referral fees.
Surrogacy and Egg Donation in the U.S. for International Intended Parents
With 20 years of experience, Donor Concierge searches a broad network of U.S. surrogacy agencies, egg donor agencies, and sperm banks to find the donor or surrogate you have in mind, wherever you live. Your criteria drive the search — not agency partnerships or referral fees.
How International Surrogacy Works
Intended parents who cannot or choose not to pursue surrogacy in their home country often look to the United States. Surrogacy in the U.S. follows the same core steps for international intended parents as for anyone else: finding your surrogate match through a U.S. surrogacy agency, working with a fertility clinic to create and transfer embryos, and completing legal agreements with surrogacy attorneys.
In gestational surrogacy, your surrogate carries a pregnancy created through IVF and has no genetic relationship to the baby. What changes when you're abroad is the coordination, not the steps.
Egg and Sperm Donation for International Intended Parents
Donor searches often start with specific criteria, like a particular heritage, an educational background, or a donor open to a known arrangement, where you and the donor know each other's identities. Where you look depends on what you need.
For donor eggs, U.S. options include egg donor agencies, which connect you with a donor for a fresh cycle, and frozen egg banks, which offer eggs that have already been retrieved and frozen. Donor sperm comes from sperm banks and sperm donor agencies. Some fertility clinics also run their own egg or sperm donor programs.
If you need more than one, such as donor eggs and donor sperm, or a donor and a surrogate, each is a separate search through a different set of agencies and banks. Donor Concierge runs them together, so you have one point of contact instead of coordinating several searches from abroad.
How Donor Concierge Supports International Intended Parents
From the outside, U.S. donor and surrogacy agencies are hard to tell apart — and harder still when you're comparing them from another country, in another time zone, with no one local to ask.
Donor Concierge does that research for you. Instead of vetting U.S. agencies one by one from abroad, you share your priorities, and our team searches our network to find a donor or surrogate who fits.
We typically find an egg donor in two to three weeks and a sperm donor within one month. On a surrogacy search, our team reviews the surrogate's medical records before presenting her to you. We stay involved through your match — and on a surrogacy search, until your surrogate has medical clearance. The agencies, clinics, and attorneys you choose handle their own parts of the process from there.
Key Considerations for International Intended Parents
Pursuing donor services or surrogacy in another country raises unique practical and legal questions. Keep these in mind as you plan:
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Travel: Consider when you may need to be in the U.S. for appointments, treatment, delivery, or other milestones.
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Communication: Ask how providers work with international clients, including communication across time zones.
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Provider coordination: Understand the separate roles of your surrogacy or donor agency, fertility clinic, attorneys, and other professionals.
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Parentage and citizenship: Requirements differ between the U.S. and your home country. Work with legal counsel experienced in both to understand how parentage will be established and what is required for your child's citizenship and travel documents.
Frequently Asked Questions
International surrogacy is an arrangement in which intended parents pursue surrogacy outside their country of residence. For families working with U.S.-based providers, the process generally involves a gestational surrogate, fertility clinic, surrogacy agency, and legal professionals.
The U.S. offers established fertility clinics, donor and surrogacy agencies, and legal frameworks supporting gestational surrogacy in many states. It also offers donor options that may not be available at home, including donors open to future contact. Specific requirements depend on your circumstances and where the surrogacy takes place.
Not always. It depends on whether you'll use your own eggs and sperm, donor eggs or sperm, or embryos you've already created. Some intended parents need only a surrogate. Others need an egg donor, a sperm donor, or both, alongside a surrogate. Your fertility clinic can confirm what your plan requires.
Two things matter more for an international family than for a domestic one: how an agency handles communication across time zones, and how much experience it has with parentage and travel documents for non-resident parents. Donor Concierge can take the agency research off your plate: we search our network for the donor or surrogate who fits your criteria.
Donor Concierge conducts a personalized search across our network of U.S. donor agencies, sperm banks, and surrogacy agencies based on your priorities. That means your search isn't limited to whoever happens to be on one agency's roster. Our team screens each candidate against your specific requirements before presenting them to you, and on a surrogacy search, we stay involved until your surrogate has medical clearance.
See How Donor Concierge Can Help
Tell us whom you're looking for, however specific. A donor with particular physical traits, a donor open to future contact, a surrogate in a specific state: the more precise your criteria, the more focused our search.
Request a consultation, and our team will start the search.
