People born in the USSR quite often find that they need to use their Soviet birth certificate in foreign countries. If those countries are parties to the 1961 Hague Convention, the certificate must first be legalized by affixing an apostille. But how can this be done if the state that issued the certificate no longer exists?
Around one hundred countries and jurisdictions have still not acceded to the 1961 Hague Convention for various reasons. As a result, they neither issue apostilles nor accept foreign apostilled documents within their territories. How can documents be used in such jurisdictions? Schmidt & Schmidt explains.
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