Entries by Karina Duval


You are an insect without a piece of paper: what problems face immigrants in the USA due to lack of documents from their homeland

Our office in New York - Russian-Divorce - provides all types of notary and legal services. However, the most pressing topic is traditionally the issues of civil registry office. Not having the right documents at the right time can create great difficulties for people. Unfortunately, few people contact a lawyer ahead of time, because...


Division of property between Plaksin and Uspenskaya: the singer lost the court

Exclusive! ForumDaily is the first to publish the point of view of Alexander Plaksin's side in this process - before, not a single media outlet managed to get a comment from his lawyer Karina Duval. On May 12, 2021, the Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region satisfied the claims of Alexander Plaksin against his wife, ...


Notary services in the USA: what issues at home immigrants can solve remotely

Probably there is nothing more important than having the necessary documents always at hand. Especially when living in another country. But it is impossible to foresee all occasions. So what to do if some document is still not available? Let's start with the main thing. If…


Why is a birth certificate a very important document, especially for immigrants

A birth certificate is a key document in any immigration process in any country. The absence of this document creates sometimes insurmountable difficulties. Moreover, different countries practice different requirements for a birth certificate: some want to see the original birth certificate, or even ...


Quarantine and documents: how to remotely solve bureaucratic issues in Russia and the USA

Foreign citizens living in the USA often face problems that have arisen in their country of origin, where they lived before, or the place of residence of their wives, brides, children ... In the modern world, everything is closely interconnected. And even now, when the world has stopped at ...


Lawyer opinion: why do immigrant children need citizenship of their parents ’native countries

Second citizenship is a very useful thing. In some cases, the citizenship of the native country arises at birth, in other cases it is required to go through the procedure for acquiring citizenship. For example, in accordance with Russian legislation, a child acquires Russian citizenship by birth if both of his parents ...


The main bureaucratic problems of immigrants in the United States and how to solve them: lawyer's advice

The United States is home to millions of immigrants from all over the world, and hundreds of thousands of new immigrants arrive annually. All these people have broken all social and economic ties with their places of birth and are trying to start their lives from scratch. In my native ...


Immigration and divorce: stories of collapsed international marriages through the eyes of a lawyer

Kidnapping? Child Abduction? Or the parent's exercise of their legal rights? With this column, I begin a series of stories about the lawful and illegal cases of the movement of children abroad. How each parent can defend their rights. What everyone should know ...

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