Before receiving government services falling under the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, local citizens of military age will have to report to the military registration and enlistment office.
On June 15, 2024, changes to the procedure for providing the state service “Apostille of official documents emanating from justice authorities and other government bodies, as well as notaries of the Republic of Kazakhstan” came into force. Now an application for apostille through the Electronic Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Egov) portal with a list of required documents is submitted using an electronic digital signature (EDS).
On 5 June 2024, the Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, also known as the Apostille Convention, came into force for Rwanda.
The Notary Chamber of Ukraine addressed the Ministry of Justice with an official letter. According to representatives of the Notary Chamber, Ukrainian notaries perform notarial acts abroad. In particular, there is information about similar cases in the UK and Spain.
The Bangladesh Cabinet formally approved the state's accession to the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents of 5 October 1961 (also known as the Apostille Convention).
The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Dmytro Kuleba, has confirmed that he was the one who ordered to limit consular services for Ukrainians abroad.
A federal district court in Alabama has ruled unconstitutional the US Corporate Transparency Act, which requires a number of categories of companies to report their beneficial owners to a registry run by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network - FinCEN. The decision was made as part of the National Small Business Association's lawsuit against US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
A businessperson who wanted to correct his company's data has discovered an important flaw in the work of the Estonian commercial register. The ERR portal writes about it.
The Allahabad High Court, India, has ruled that the government of the country cannot disbelieve apostilled documents issued by states that have ratified the 1961 Hague Convention.
Transparency International has criticised the authorities of a number of European Union member states for restricting journalists and non-profit activists from accessing registers of beneficial owners of businesses.
On 6 October 2023, the Republic of Rwanda deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention of 5 October 1961, also known as the Apostille Convention.
The Republic of Belarus has undergone a large-scale reform of the regulatory framework in the sphere of consular services, registration of migration documentation, legalisation of documents.
At the end of 2022, Ukraine adopted a law on withdrawal from the Convention on Legal Aid and Legal Relations, but then the Cabinet of Ministers decided that documents certified on the territory of foreign states would be accepted on the territory of Ukraine without a special certificate, if such a practice existed before February 24, 2022.
