New Life Georgia

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New Life Georgia — Tbilisi. Specialties: Surrogacy, Egg donation, IVF, PGT. Independent ratings and reputation have not yet been verified by us; see Sources. A documented controversy/risk is on record — see Sources.

Multi-platform reputation scan (2026-07)

Legal entity: LLC “International Healthcare Agency New Life Georgia”, ID 404862546, registered at Bakhtrioni St. 11B, Tbilisi (marketing address Sairme St. 57); registered director Ekaterine Iashvili, current CEO Natia Grigalashvili per the official team page — founder Mariam Kukunashvili is no longer on the team roster but retains a founder page and, per the Baby Broker investigation, remains the principal decision-maker; her husband David Bezhuashvili became the listed owner of the UK contracting shell NLGN in 2022. Google rating approx. 4.7/5 (155 reviews, via aggregator); OVU shows 5.0 with a small sample and positive 2025 reviews; no independent Reddit/Trustpilot threads found. Georgia-specific record: a 2014 GYLA (Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association) statement named New Life Georgia in alleged schemes to take infants abroad on falsified parentage documents (no known prosecution outcome); the Baby Broker Project documented approx. $12,500 pay for Georgian surrogates, a claimed 80–100 embryo transfers per month pre-pandemic, and client payments routed to bank accounts in Georgia and Latvia. Georgia’s 2023 draft ban on surrogacy for foreigners remains unpassed as of mid-2026; after the announcement New Life restarted marketing its Kenyan branch. A March 2026 academic study (The Conversation) names New Life Georgia and partner clinic Beta as recruiting war-displaced Ukrainian women (~$20,000 pay, agency-arranged shared flats, rarely any independent legal counsel), while the group’s Ukraine site still markets programs without mentioning the war. Chinese platforms: no independent user reviews; agent advertorials repackage the agency as a “clinic” with “guaranteed success” claims; the agency's own simplified-Chinese site openly markets sex selection and guaranteed-baby packages. A March 2025 Chinese media investigation (Phoenix Weekly via 36Kr) describes it as Georgia's largest surrogacy agency, with journeys around RMB 500,000 of which surrogates receive roughly RMB 70–80,000, early-miscarriage compensation of only $500, and infants shipped to China on "baby flights" after months of paperwork limbo. Full detail in the Chinese edition.

Medical team check (2026-07)

The agency itself employs no physicians or embryologists: its 21-person team page is entirely administrative (the "Medical Coordinator" has an MBA/psychology background), with IVF executed by partner clinic Beta Plus Fertility. PlacidWay's roster for the agency lists founder Dr. Mariam Kukunashvili (emergency-medicine background, not a fertility specialist) and "IVF director" Dr. Nana Kvernadze — the latter is actually director of the Scandinavian Fertility Centre (see the IVF Georgia entry), i.e. an affiliated name rather than an in-house doctor. Two further Baby Broker Project details added this round: contract clauses reportedly allowed infants born with Down syndrome to be left to orphanages, and Estonian embryologist Andres Salumets publicly stated his name was used by New Life without consent, calling it "criminal identity theft" — a direct counter-signal against taking the agency's named-expert marketing at face value. WhatClinic's 6.1/10 ServiceScore is notably low versus Tbilisi peers; FertilityFriends forum sentiment (paywalled, pending verification) is broadly positive on price and staff.

Score revision (2026-07-08): see the Chinese profile's editorial note — transparency lowered 4→3 (no medical staff disclosed; investigative reporting documented offshore shell-company ownership).