True to the spirit of globalisation, a US firm is offering Australians affordable gestational surrogacy and egg donation services in India.

"Australian surrogacy requires a deft approach. With our complete, end-to-end services, Proactive Family Solutions(PFS) removes the guesswork of foreign surrogacy and stands together with Australians every step of the way, through the extensive relationships of its parent company, one world united, PFS has access to a broad network of world-class doctors and hospitals" explains Mendel Zilberberg, president and CEO, of US-based One World United.

"Additionally, PFS has addresses all foreign travel, including immigration-related issues such as birth certificates and passports for the parents and newborn, assuring smooth travel to and from India. Working with PFS, Australian families can focus on family matters rather than mundane travel logistics and the complicated travel arrangements for the newborn," Zilberberg said in a press release distributed by Asianet.

While the Australian government examines the issue of surrogacy domestically, PFS offers a viable alternative to prospective parents who wish to start their families sooner rather than later.

PFS distinguishes itself from other surrogacy services around the world by closely working with its varied clients to secure a successful outcome. PFS, through its international legal team lays the groundwork in advance to ensure the parents are able to return home with their child.

Barring unforeseen medical circumstances, PFS will work with intended parents to assist them in becoming actual parents even going so far as to offer a financial guarantee to medically qualified parents electing this option, the company says in an reference to the legal hurdles faced by a Japanese father in taking his child to Japan.

In concert with India-based doctors and medical teams, PFS goes to extraordinary lengths to achieve a viable outcome including medical testing and screening of all donors and surrogates as necessary, psychologically and physically screening surrogates, providing regular medical check-ups of all surrogates, careful monitoring of the surrogate at all stages of the pregnancy, providing for the medical and nutritional needs of the surrogate and providing transportation and lodging for the surrogate as needed.

Additionally, through its sister company, BestMed Journeys, PFS provides broad range of foreign medical travel concierge services to intended parents. These include all necessary visas for travel to India, airfare to India, all lodging and transportation while in India, catered meals, laundry services, housekeeping services, preparation and supply of medical records, legal fees, foreign regional registration office approvals and a passport for the baby, a one-way ticket for the baby to Australia and any necessary accessories (toiletries, diapers etc).

Fertility tourism is on rise in India where it can be outsourced cheaply, safely and legally.

A process of surrogacy costs around USD 50,000 in the US while in India it's readily available cheap at USD 10,000 thus making India a hotspot for the business.

Surrogacy was legalised in India in 2002 and has become a lucrative idea for many to make easy money.

The business has picked up in India compared to other countries as women donors are found aplenty in India, the bills are nominal which can be paid online through a credit card and the number of embryos a doctor can plant in a woman's womb not strictly monitored unlike other countries, say experts.