Why New York Parents Choose Circle
As a full-service agency, Circle offers parents and surrogates the expertise and experience from over 30 years of helping all families grow. With a 99.1% success rate, you can rely on Circle for your personal journey.
Top Tier NY Clinic Partners
Since 1995, Circle has been successfully guiding intended parents in the greater New York metro area through partnerships with local legal experts and world-renowned clinics such as RMA of New York and Cornell, CCRM, NYU Fertility Center, Illume, and nearly 400 clinics nationwide.
Only Full-Service Agency
At Circle, you are in the hands of the only Full-Service agency in the U.S. with all in-house professional resources managing your journey. This includes attorneys with expertise in state-specific legislation, fertility insurance professionals, mental health specialists, and an audited escrow service.
No Questions Asked Refund
We have the most comprehensive guarantees in the industry; it pays to read the fine print for other agency exclusions!
With Circle, if you use all your embryos, or donor-created embryos, and do not bring home a baby, you’ll receive a $100,000 refund, no questions asked.
Exclusive Access to Top 4% of Surrogates
With over 3,000 surrogates screened and matched, our MatchMade™ approach connects you exclusively with the top 4% of surrogate applicants. We go beyond clinical requirements to align emotional, lifestyle, and maternity traits—ensuring genuine compatibility from the start.
The Surrogacy Process for Intended Parents
Consultation and Sign On
1-3 Months
Consult with agency
Sign agreement for services
Intro video call with team
Match with egg donor (if needed)
Create embryos
Matching With Your Surrogate
Time Varies
Matching process & approval
Intro video call with surrogate
Start journey to pregnancy
Medical and Legal
3-4 Months
Surrogate medical screening
Embryo transfer
Beta tests
Surrogate Pregnancy
9 Months
Ultrasound check-ins
Create birth plan
Establish parental rights
Hospital and delivery prep
Your baby's birth!
Parenthood
Birth & Beyond
Soak up the "new parent" wonderfulness
Obtain baby's passport (if needed)
Say goodbye to your surrogate & her family
Travel home
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Anthony Brown, Esq., Manager of Client Services
Our Team's Connection to New York
Not only do we have an office in New York, but our Manager of Client Services, Tony, is based in New York. Anthony and his husband grew their family through surrogacy in New York, and this is what he has to say about his experience:
"New York City was where I met my husband and has been our home for the last 40 years. My husband and I knew we wanted to raise our son in NYC because we wanted him to have access to the world from the very start. Knowing that he would hear every language and meet so many new people from so many different places around the world meant everything to us. Raising a teenager in New York City can only be described as one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my life!"
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Your First Steps as Intended Parents
A surrogacy journey can seem quite daunting at first, and you may not know where to start. Through both our professional and personal experience with surrogacy as intended parents, we understand that taking that first step can be intimidating.
As you begin exploring surrogacy, we can simplify the early stages of the process for intended parents into three easy steps:
Select a Surrogacy Agency
Select a Clinic Partner
Select an Egg Donor (If Needed)
Select a Clinic Partner
If you are coming to this journey having already selected a clinic, our team will be happy to coordinate with their care team. Circle has decades-long relationships with many clinics in the United States – both large and small – to support our intended parents.
If you have not yet selected a clinic – or if you are looking to find a new clinic – our team can help facilitate that process with you. Once a clinic is selected, your Circle team will manage the relationship and liaise with the clinic for your journey.
Select a Surrogacy Agency
We recommend selecting an agency as the first step you take for a few reasons. First, the wait time to match with a surrogate may take time, and the minute you officially sign on with an agency, you will be added to the surrogate matching list. Once your spot is secured, you can continue working on the other steps in the process while you are waiting. With so many surrogacy agencies to choose from, it helps to have criteria by which you can measure if the agency will be the right fit for you. We’ve put together this article to guide you in what to look for in a surrogacy agency.
The second reason for selecting an agency as the first step is that having the support of an agency can help guide you from the beginning of your journey. A full-service agency like Circle will provide support and guidance in choosing a clinic (should you need our expertise) and an egg donor (if one is required).
Select an Egg Donor (If Needed)
If you require an egg donor to build your family, you can begin the donor selection process. We recommend reviewing the bright, young egg donors from Everie, an egg donor program and partner of ours. Everie is a fresh and frozen egg donor program that supports thoughtful decision-making around disclosed donations and mutual matching. The experienced team understands the importance of selecting the right donor, and the impact that choice has on your future child(ren).
Our team is invested in your success on this family-building path, and we’re here to share our expertise and personal experience to assist you in this decision-making process.
Why Parents Choose Circle Surrogacy
Your surrogacy agency is an essential partner on your journey to parenthood. Choosing Circle gives you access to a full-service program with highly-screened surrogates, dedicated interdisciplinary experts and a long history of success.
We offer a small agency feel with the resources of a large agency, and the ability to work across financial, and program management teams to offer you the most comprehensive support for a well-tended journey towards parenthood.
Full-service Agency
Our team of experts have accumulated the most experience in the surrogacy space, leading to a 99.1% success rate for those who had a baby in their first two transfers, or completed at least three transfers.
Most Experience,
Highest Success
44% of Circle's staff has personal experience as a gestational surrogate or egg donor, or as intended parents through surrogacy, IVF or adoption. Because of this, we bring deep dedication and knowledge to serving you on your journey.
A Team That’s Been There, and is Ready to Help
Every surrogate that is ready to match has been fully vetted in our 3-step screening process. We’ve helped hundreds of parents build relationships with their surrogates who truly feel like family by the end of the process, and we genuinely believe fostering this relationship is the best way to bring a baby into the world.
Healthy Relationships
With Surrogates
According to the CDC, surrogacy has the highest rate of success of any fertility treatment. Surrogacy success rates are influenced by the IVF clinic you work with, the health and viability of the embryo you use, and the health and fertility history of your surrogate. In the U.S., fertility centers have a surrogacy success rate of about 75%, with the rate increasing up to 95% once the gestational carrier is pregnant.
There are multiple options for financing surrogacy journeys, such as a bank loan, home equity loan, and medical financing. Visit our Financing page and How To Afford Surrogacy post to learn more.
If you use a gestational carrier, the surrogate does not contribute DNA to the baby. DNA comes only from the sperm source and the egg. If the eggs used in surrogacy come from an intended parent, then the baby will share DNA with the mother. Read this blog post for details about surrogacy and DNA.
Pursuing surrogacy independently is possible. It is time-consuming because you're responsible for many steps in the matching and planning process that the agency would otherwise handle. These tasks include finding and screening a surrogate, hiring an attorney, and coordinating with a fertility clinic.
Intended Parents FAQs
Below are some common questions about becoming intended parents. You can read our full list of FAQs about the general surrogacy process from intended parents here.