You're ready to become a parent, and understanding the common delays in surrogacy can help you:
Avoid adding 2+ years to your surrogacy journey Avoid matching with unqualified surrogates Avoid lowering your chance for success
At American Surrogacy, we understand the eagerness to build your family. With our years of expertise, we guide you every step of the way to minimize time delays, helping you find a qualified surrogate as quickly as possible.
Time Delay #1: Joining an Agency That Signs Up Too Many Families
Time Impact: High
Your Potential Loss: 2+ Years
Many surrogacy agencies sign up more families than they can effectively match with qualified surrogates. This causes you to join an overwhelming list, significantly risking your wait time.
Our Solution: A Surrogate for Every Family
When agencies sign up dozens more families than they can actually match, they cause long wait times for every family involved.
We carefully manage the number of families we sign up, ensuring it remains balanced with the number of available surrogates. This creates a near 1:1 ratio of waiting families to surrogates, which speeds up the matching process.
Many agencies overload their programs and carry between 25 – 400+ families on their list, resulting in waiting years to be matched. By maintaining an optimal ratio, you get consistent, short wait times to match with a surrogate and start your surrogacy journey.
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Time Delay #2: Joining an Agency That Doesn’t Reach Enough Surrogates
Time Impact: High
Your Potential Loss: 1 - 2 Years
Many agencies fail to reach enough surrogates, which means fewer opportunities and longer waits to match with a qualified surrogate.
Our Solution: Helping You Reach More Surrogates for More Opportunities
We invest heavily in marketing and networking strategies to connect with more qualified surrogates, keeping our average match time between 1 - 6 months—one of the fastest timelines in surrogacy. You could be welcoming your baby up to 2 years sooner, meaning more holidays, birthdays and family milestones to celebrate.
Supporting Evidence: Agency Comparison
Below is a comparison of the top surrogacy agencies, their monthly online visitors and their wait times as a result. More reach to surrogates results in more opportunities for families; however, the ratio of families to surrogates also factors into an agency’s estimated wait time.
Top Surrogacy Agencies Monthly Visitors Wait Times American Surrogacy 32,600* 1 - 6 Months Circle Surrogacy 30,100 18+ Months Growing Generations 7,900 12 - 18 Months Others Lower Traffic Longer Waits
*Data independently verified through SEMRush and Google Analytics, November 2024. Data includes all web traffic from our network of sites and is not specific to only surrogate candidates.
Time Delay #3: Matching With a Surrogate Too Early
Time Impact: Moderate
Your Potential Loss: Months
Cost Impact: High
Only 2% of surrogates pass all screening steps, including a psychological evaluation. Because this process takes an average of 30 - 90 days, you risk serious setbacks, including:
- Repeated screening delays: Because only 1 in 50 surrogates pass the screening process, matching too early often leads to the need for repeated matches and significant time lost.
- Escalating screening costs: Each screening costs between $2,000 and $10,000, compounding expenses with repeated matches.
- Non-refundable agency fees: Some agencies charge high, non-refundable fees--up to $40,000--before a surrogate is ever fully qualified.
- Risk of never matching: Joining an agency that doesn't reach enough surrogates keeps you in limbo and potentially never finding a qualified match.
Our Solution: Matching Families with Only Qualified, Screened Surrogates
We help you avoid these pitfalls by fully screening our surrogates before matching and maintain a robust pool of surrogate candidates for a smoother and more reliable matching process, saving you time and money.
Below, you see a comparison of where most other agencies match families in the screening process compared to where we match, which isn't until after a psychological evaluation--a step no agency should ever skip before matching.
Achieving Success: A Faster Path to Parenthood
A journey with us means you’ll experience:
- Fewer Years Waiting: Welcoming your child into the world up to two years sooner.
- Confidence in the Process: Being matched with fully vetted surrogates and ready to proceed.
- More Joyful Memories: Spending less time waiting and more time celebrating milestones with your child.
Take the First Step Today
Don’t let long waits delay your happiness. Contact us today to start your journey toward building your family.
Your future family is waiting.