Most Popular Resource: Recognition of Foreign Country Divorce Decrees (Download Now) Regardless of its validity in the foreign country, if the divorce is not valid in the United States, the divorce will have little meaning.

Aliens & Divorce - Overcoming Marriage Fraud - The Immigration and Naturalization Service has always had a concern that aliens seeking permanent resident status in the United States will marry solely to gain that status, thereby circumventing the Immigration Laws...

U.S. Sponsors of Foreign Nationals Beware! - If you think that New York State Supreme and Family Court are the only avenues to sue for spousal support, think again. A foreign national spouse may be eligible for support from a sponsor and can sue to enforce that support through federal court...

Immigration and Spousal Support: Will the Affidavit of Support Haunt Me? - For many foreigners who seek to obtain permanent U.S. residence through family-based or employment-based applications, the Affidavit of Support INS Form must be filed. This law was implemented in 1996 to further ensure that foreigners likely to become public charges were not admitted to the U.S. The Affidavit of Support requirement is an inevitable requirement that must be satisfied in order for many foreigners to ultimately obtain legal permanent residence...

How to Fight an International Removal Case - If a person is faced with this type of family situation then he should immediately undertake any and all efforts to block the child's passport. Additionally, if he has legitimate fears that a child might be taken abroad by the other parent without the mutual consent of both parents, then the child's name can be put in the U.S. passport name check system...

Summary of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction - The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the "Hague Convention") was designed to protect children internationally from the harmful effects of their wrongful removal or retention by their parents. The two main purposes of the Hague Convention are to ensure the prompt return of children to the state of their habitual residence when they have been abducted and to ensure that rights of custody and of access...

Immigration Matters Related to Divorce - Many people in New York are from other countries. When the divorce becomes inevitable, both the immigrant spouse and the citizen/permanent resident spouse will also have to consider how to handle immigration issues. Removal proceedings sometimes become an eminent possibility after a divorce...

Immigration and Divorce - Each year, more than 400,000 citizens of the United States marry foreign-born persons and petition for them to obtain permanent residence in the U.S. Spouses of U.S. citizens is considered "immediate relatives" under the immigration laws, and are exempt form all numerical limitations...

International Divorce - People spend more time overseas than ever before. They might marry a foreign national in one country, parent children in another, and own a business in a third country. Our world is becoming a smaller place and this will have increasing impact on the analysis a matrimonial lawyer must bring to a new case...

Globetrotters Beware - International Divorce - Globetrotters and their legal advisers, beware! Married business and professional people who spend lots of time overseas-increasingly the thing to do when building a business, or just having fun, in the global village-may end up in the proverbial pickle if they get divorced...