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1. The Position Is Confirmed
Send the papers, the service address abroad, and your deadline. The destination's position — Hague, letters rogatory, or no service — is confirmed in writing before anything is accepted or billed. If no lawful channel exists, you are told so at once, not after a fee.
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2. The Packet Is Prepared
The Article 5 request packet is assembled to the Convention's form: the request (Form USM-94) and its summary, the summons and complaint and every document to be served, and the certificate pages the Central Authority completes on execution. Form errors are the most common cause of refusal abroad — the packet is checked against the destination's stated requirements before it moves.
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3. The Certified Translation Is Arranged
Where the destination requires its own language — most do — a certified translation of the packet into that language is arranged and bound into the filing, so the request arrives in the form the Central Authority will act on. For the Dominican Republic, that is a certified Spanish translation.
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4. Filed with the Central Authority
The completed packet is filed with the destination's Central Authority. From that moment, execution belongs to the destination: its court officers serve under its law — in the Dominican Republic, an alguacil; elsewhere, that country's own officers. The operator of this service never serves papers outside the United States.
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5. Tracked — and the Proof Returned
The request is tracked while it moves through the Central Authority, and its status is reported to your firm as it develops. When service is effected, the certificate and proof of service are returned to your firm for filing with the court. Stated honestly, here as on every page of this site: Central Authority timelines are measured in months, not days.
What the Packet Includes
Every Hague coordination at the flat rate includes the same complete packet work: the USM-94 request prepared and checked; the certified translation arranged; the Central Authority filing made; the request tracked; and the certificate and proof of service returned to your firm. Nothing is billed piecemeal, and nothing further is charged for the coordination itself.
Where No Hague Channel Runs
For non-Hague countries, service is arranged where a functioning route exists — by letters rogatory or the Inter-American channel — and quoted in full in writing before dispatch; those matters never fold into the flat rate. And where no lawful or feasible channel exists, none is sold: Cuba, Haiti, and North Korea are excluded without exception, together with sanctioned and active-war jurisdictions. The Coverage page draws every country's position on the globe.
Ready When Your Papers Are
Email the papers, the service address abroad, and your deadline. The destination's channel and the full cost will be confirmed in writing — Hague coordination is one flat $995.