stranded couples wait on court8 aus

stranded couples wait on court


8 australian families caught in surrogacy row

post reporters

Eight Australian families and 14 children born from THai surrogate mothers are in Bangkok waiting for legal procedures to be completed before they can leave the country, a senior diplomatic source told the Bangkok port yesterday.

of the eight, five families with nine babies have obtained citizenship papers for their nine children and are waiting their passports.

Three other families with five children are in the process of obtaining citizenship papers and passports, the diplomatic source said.

All families, the source said, are in a similar situation to that of Adam and Kate Osborne, an Australian couple from New South Wales, who travelled to Thailand in July for the birth of their twins