Before I started writing this article, I tried to find official statistics on how many Russians live in the US, how many in Canada, how many in Europe, and how many around the world. There are no exact statistics, especially considering the fact that…
According to the World Population Review website, there are 2025 people of Russian descent living in the United States in 2. This data does not include those who do not live in America but who have married, divorced, had a child, and successfully left the country.…
In 2024, more than 200 clients of our office used mobile notary services, that is, they invited a notary to their home, hospital, or nursing home. As a rule, a reason is needed to perform notarial acts outside a notary office. Usually, a notary goes to people with limited mobility and those who are unable to move…
Many Russians who are temporarily or permanently abroad are faced with the need to deregister within the Russian Federation, but many of them are unable to travel to Russia in person. Some want to sell the apartment in which they are registered; others want to…
“Certificate of previously issued passports” — this scary phrase stuns even seasoned professionals. “Karina, good afternoon. Please tell me, do they issue something like a certificate of previously issued passports in the USA? We are thinking with the notary about how to confirm that the person in the power of attorney…
Recently a woman came to my office and raised a very interesting question. So interesting that I decided to share it with my readers and subscribers. Why? Because ignorance of the law does not exempt one from liability or from negative consequences, then…
A few days ago, a client, a US citizen, contacted my office. Shortly before the New Year, I had issued him a power of attorney to dispose of his apartment in Russia. He had inherited the property many years ago. The client wanted to sell the apartment, but with…
At the very beginning of the year, I decided to write an article about the methods of accepting an inheritance, since this issue gives rise to many misunderstandings and misconceptions. It is one thing when the heir lives in the same jurisdiction (in our case, in Russia) where the inheritance was opened, when he…
Moving and even decades of living in another country do not guarantee that at some point you will not need some kind of certificate or reference from your homeland. And then the difficult quest of "getting a document from the archive from the registry office" begins. If you have the identification data...
People who emigrated to the United States long ago, even before the collapse of the USSR, often contact our office. They do not have and never had Russian passports, but many of them are currently faced with the need to prove the absence of Russian citizenship. For example,…