Mrs. Una Fannon:

On behalf of all of my colleagues in the Department, I thank the Senator for her kind words. We have implemented quite a robust process. It is absolutely the case that embassy officials do attend the DNA test where they get to meet the surrogate mother, which is just another safeguard. The surrogate mother is met by an embassy official and that helps us in approving the emergency travel certificate application. I would say, however, that the role of the Department is only to approve the emergency travel certificate at that point. The intending parents have to go through a very robust judicial process on their return.