Use this 14-stage record to review the process, costs, timing, parentage steps, and open questions. Answer five questions to compare it with your situation.
Your key questions
Start with the answer to your question. Open source details only when you need to inspect the evidence boundary.
Review the published 14-stage process and sources, then use the checks below for parentage and return-home questions specific to your situation.
As of 2026-07-11 | G2 review limited | 10 source references.
Official payment and expense rules are available below, but no complete public total-budget range has been reviewed for this route.
As of 2026-07-11 | G2 review limited | No source-backed range attached.
No complete public timeline range has been reviewed for this route.
As of 2026-07-11 | G3 source gap | No source-backed range attached.
Destination parentage steps and home-country recognition must both be confirmed for the selected jurisdiction and family context.
As of 2026-07-11 | G2 review limited | 10 parentage source references.
Recommended next step
Answer five intended-parent questions to compare reviewed destinations, documented cases, budget and timing evidence, and the checks that apply to your facts.
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Route-specific gates, sources, and unknowns. General industry guidance lives in the journey guide.
Pre-clear the intended woman, Greek domicile, medical indication, and family structure
Confirm that the applicant is a woman with a medically evidenced present and future inability to carry, not an inability based only on sex, preference, career, aesthetics, or age. Establish the applicant and proposed carrier's actual Greek domicile and map age, marital or civil-partnership status, donor plan, partner-parentage questions, and civil-record goals. A male-only applicant route is not available under the amended text.
Identify the competent court and voluntary-jurisdiction procedure, filing venue, prosecutor or other participation, service, hearing, decision, appeal periods, certificates, and proof that the order has become irrevocable. The 2025 amendment makes the authorization effective only at irrevocability, not at filing, hearing, or initial issuance.
Assign Greek reproductive counsel, independent carrier advice as a risk control, the EAIYA-licensed ART unit and cryobank, reproductive physician, carrier obstetric and psychological evaluators, obstetrician, birth hospital, civil registry, translator or apostille support where needed, insurance contacts, and benefits owner. Record responsibility for every domicile item, opinion, consent, agreement, receipt, court certificate, transfer, birth filing, and civil record.
Inventory intended-parent and donor gametes, embryos, storage, import or export, infectious-disease testing, donor records, consent, disposition, and the accepting licensed unit. The carrier may not provide the egg. The intended woman may use her own or a donor egg, but the exact sperm source, partner status, donor combination, and resulting legal-parent record require clinic and legal confirmation.
Identify a woman domiciled in Greece who is over 25 and no older than 54, will not provide the egg, has had no more than two caesarean sections, and can participate voluntarily. From age 50 years and one day through 54 years she needs the National Authority's exceptional permission. A licensed ART unit may assist with finding a carrier, but provider involvement does not prove domicile, suitability, voluntariness, or court approval.
Complete carrier health and pregnancy-suitability evidence, caesarean and obstetric history, infectious-disease tests, psychological evaluation, medication and transfer counselling, multiple-pregnancy risks, prenatal and pregnancy decision discussions, support, and spouse or civil-partner participation where applicable. The clinic must explain medical, social, ethical, legal, and financial consequences and obtain written consent before treatment.
Draft the written agreement among the intended persons, carrier, and her spouse or civil partner where applicable. Cover the exact embryos, clinic, treatment, healthcare consent, records, communication, expenses and authorized compensation, pregnancy support, birth, intended motherhood, civil registration, changed circumstances, disputes, and record retention without prohibited consideration. File medical inability, carrier suitability, domicile, agreement, consent, and supporting evidence, then obtain the court order and proof of irrevocability.
Build a receipt-backed ledger for uninsured pregnancy-achievement, gestation, birth, and postpartum expenses. Document necessary work absence and lost income, capped at EUR 10,000, and the physical-burden amount of EUR 10,000 for singleton or EUR 15,000 for multiple pregnancy. Payments are owed only after court authorization and may be routed through the licensed ART unit or cryobank against receipts. Separately price clinic, court, legal, insurance, complication, neonatal, and registry costs.
Immediately before transfer, reverify domicile, parties, written agreement, irrevocable authorization, licensed unit, carrier age and Authority permission if needed, no more than two prior caesareans, current health and psychological evidence, consents, embryo identity, no carrier oocyte, payment controls, and insurance plan. The Authority's 2022 rule states no fixed time or quantitative limit on carrier embryo transfers, but the clinic retains medical responsibility.
Coordinate clinic-to-obstetric handoff, prenatal care, carrier privacy and healthcare consent, communication, emergencies, fetal testing, termination or reduction decisions under applicable law, work absence, insurer claims, receipt capture, approved compensation, hospital planning, and intended-parent preparation. Preserve non-coercive medical decision-making and escalate material departures to counsel.
Before delivery, provide the hospital and civil registry with counsel-approved copies of the irrevocable authorization, agreement, identities, domicile and marital-status evidence, embryo and no-carrier-oocyte records, and expected parent fields. Confirm newborn medical consent, discharge, name, birth declaration, and correction escalation. General Gov.gr birth registration guidance is not a surrogacy-specific field map.
For a birth under a compliant Article 1458 arrangement, treat the woman who obtained authorization as the presumed legal mother and submit the irrevocable order and birth evidence to the competent registry. Confirm any spouse or partner parent, child name, family register, full civil birth record, and correction process. Article 1464 permits a six-month maternity challenge only if the carrier proves she is the biological mother, which should not arise in a compliant no-carrier-oocyte route.
This curated route is domestic by domicile, not necessarily by nationality. Determine the child's citizenship through the legally recognized parent or parents, then obtain the accepted civil record, family-registration entry, health identifiers, passport or other travel document, and any consent required for travel. Greek birth alone is not modeled as proof of citizenship or passport eligibility.
Retain the domicile file, medical opinions, psychological evaluation, consents, agreement, court application, irrevocable authorization and certificate, licensed-unit and embryo records, receipts and compensation ledger, pregnancy and birth records, civil birth record, citizenship and passport evidence. Reconcile payments and insurance. An eligible insured intended mother may separately claim the 63-day postpartum maternity benefit using the employment contribution and absence evidence, court decision, and birth record. Adoption is not the routine endpoint of a compliant domestic route.
