Commercial surrogacy has been illegal in the Netherlands for a long time. "This can cause difficult situations for the surrogate, for the child and for the parents", according to the government's website. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the embassy nevertheless helped the Dutch couple because the father already claimed the unborn child as his, with the consent of the unmarried mother, in the Netherlands. This means that the child got Dutch citizenship the moment he was born.
According to the newspaper, father, 37-year-old Sander Verschuuren and his husband Karim Maarsi signed up for a total "surrogacy package" through mediation agency New Life, which cost them 41 thousand euros. They chose a South African woman from a New Life photo album to donate the egg. Verschuuren fertilized it, and in August last year the embryo was placed in a surrogate, a Cambodian factory worker who was paid about 10 thousand euros for her service.
Hoe de Cambodjaanse baby Mylan toch bij zijn Nederlandse ouders kwam https://t.co/8iMptUAE9P pic.twitter.com/5ksV2l1Zxb— de Volkskrant (@volkskrant) May 11, 2017
After this happened, Cambodia made commercial surrogacy illegal, without making transition arrangements for parents who were already expecting a child. Verschuuren and Maarsi repeatedly tried to contact New Life, but to no avail. With help from the Volkskrant, they then traveled to Cambodia themselves to search for their surrogate. When they found her, the woman agreed to sign papers indicating that Verschuuren was the baby's father. Verschuuren brought the documents back Amsterdam, where he claimed his future child."
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