How to receive a Russian pension in America, and why you should not save this money in Sberbank accounts

Some countries pay pensions to their citizens even if they live abroad. Russia is one of them. For pensioners, this is a very important and pressing issue, because so many years have been spent for the benefit of their former homeland, and many people want this money...

Bulgakov's stories about death and inheritance from a Russian-speaking lawyer in the USA

Man is mortal, but that would not be so bad. The bad thing is that sometimes he is suddenly mortal, that’s the trick! (Mikhail Bulgakov) Since I opened my office in New York, I had to change my specialization: to replace international divorces, disputes about ...

Annexation and family status: why you shouldn’t formalize divorce or marriage in Crimea

Recently, my office has been frequently contacted regarding the issue of divorce in Crimea, so I decided to clarify the situation somewhat with the help of this column. Not everyone knows that divorces filed in Crimea annexed by Russia after March 26, 2014 are not recognized...

How to transport the ashes of a deceased relative from the homeland to the US

Emigration breaks and separates many families: parents remain to live in Russia, and children move to America. And when parents die, children bury them, and then don’t know how to separate themselves between family and work in the USA and visiting the graves of relatives on...

How and why people renounce Russian Citizenship

Renouncing Russian citizenship is a complex and multi-stage process that requires a lot of effort, documents and time. My office gets this request quite often, so let's break it down in order. The first and indispensable condition for starting the exit process...

Inheritance, immigration, divorce and marriage: how to get important registry office documents and why they are needed

All people on the planet encounter civil registry offices: from birth to death. And between these two starting points, many events occur that are subject to state registration: marriages, divorces, name changes, births of children - and so on in a circle, from generation to...

Marriage, birth and divorce certificates: what to do with important documents issued by another country

The reason for writing this column was the ruling of one of the Moscow courts - it left our claim for divorce without progress. The court demanded that the original marriage certificate be submitted to the case file, although this requirement does not comply with the law. Eventually…

International divorce: how to divide custody of a child if the parents are citizens of different countries

Love knows no boundaries, can cross oceans, etc. We have all heard and even seen this. International marriages are the norm of modern life. But not all of them end with a happy ending. Often, love that has overcome boundaries cannot overcome everyday life, differences in characters, and others...

How to translate important documents correctly so that they are accepted by government agencies in the United States or in the immigrant's home country

We have been providing translation services for a long time. Transfers made in our offices are accepted by the US Immigration Service, courts, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), universities, medical institutions, and many other agencies and organizations in the United States. Among other things, we organize the translation of American documents…

How a small document (or lack thereof) can create big problems: a cautionary tale from a lawyer

I recently received an email from an old client with her new problems. The story is so instructive that I decided to share it with my readers. The moral of this fable is this: all documents must be kept in order, there are no trifles here. There was a family in New York...

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