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[quote=Anonymous]I would look for clinics that have a focus on so-called “medical tourism” to find out what their process is  and whether they would work with a stateside clinic for testing, monitoring etc.

I don’t have experience traveling for IVF, but I have done IVF when living overseas. In my experience, our European clinic wanted to redo every single test we had already had American doctors perform because they wanted their own results. This included everything from another sperm analysis to testing chicken pox antibodies. The process from the initial intake with our European clinic and our first cycle was three months, and leading up to the first procedure that included monitoring two or three times a week. I can’t imagine flying back-and-forth between appointments and how difficult that would be in so many ways; and you also could potentially run into an issue, unless you have dual citizenship, where you are only permitted to stay in country for up to 90 days without leaving the continent for visa clearance.

I would do some serious number crunching if that’s the driving force here. Sure, the European clinics are cheaper altogether, but if you may be relocating for a month or two or more each cycle, you’ll be incurring so many expenses for lodging, airfare, meals, transportation, I’m just not certain if it would even be worth it. Also, I hate to be that person, but Spain in particular is currently in the red zone, and most of Europe is orange. There’s a lot of buzz in the ex-pat community over here that most of Europe will shut down again by the holidays. If that is the case, traveling for non-necessary medical procedures, which unfortunately this falls under, will be forbidden. I’d hate for you to be mid cycle or have new embryos ready to go but the inability to schedule a transfer. If your goal is to start another cycle and the next calendar year, I would focus on doing so stateside. [/quote]

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