INTERPOL Red Notices and Immigration. Can You Obtain Immigration Relief in the U.S. Even with a Red Notice?
INTERPOL and Politically Motivated Red Notices - What We Can Learn from INTERPOL’s Annual Reports.
INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations?
What to do when finding that you are the subject of a RedNotice?
Can a Yellow Notice be removed?
How long will it take to get a response to my Red Notice request?
Three things the CCF won’t do and why.
Does INTERPOL contact private citizens to request personal or financial information?
How can a private individual report to INTERPOL?
What are the different types of notices used by INTERPOL?
What is the INTERPOL watch list?
Can INTERPOL make an arrest in the United States?
What crimes are reported to INTERPOL?
Is it true INTERPOL hates politics?
How confidential is a request to access or challenge information and INTERPOL’s files?
Do you have a right to access your information with INTERPOL?
9 What you need to know when you apply for Red Notice removal
How many member countries does INTERPOL have?
What is a National Central Bureau?
Who are the decision makers at INTERPOL’s CCF ?
INTERPOL and Child Kidnapping Cases. What are INTERPOL’s Abilities and Limitations? Michelle Estlund knows that being wanted by INTERPOL is often frightening, isolating, and unjust. She has the proven track record of success...more
Crypto Exchange Receives CFTC License; Ratings Agency Scores Stablecoins - A recent press release announced that Bitnomial, “a US-regulated digital asset derivates exchange,” has been granted “a US clearinghouse license to...more
A local reader recently asked a question, hoping to learn whether a message they received was a scam. The reader was contacted by someone claiming to be an INTERPOL agent, who alleged that there were 2 cases held against...more
INTERPOL recently published details on its largest coordinated firearms operation ever, called Trigger IX. The operation allowed local authorities in multiple countries to make thousands of arrests and firearm seizures. The...more
As in the previous post in this series, today’s post will discuss the most recent annual activity report of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files(CCF), which has recently become available after the 90th annual...more
First, the CCF won't try to figure out if you're innocent or guilty. Second, the CCF won't order any country to remove an arrest warrant because it can't tell any countries what to do in their own territories. Third, the CCF...more
Egypt’s Red Notice requests for Muslim Brotherhood members- a continuation of Egypt’s past INTERPOL abuses? As discussed in the first two posts in this series, here and here, members of the banned group the Muslim...more
Egypt’s Red Notice requests for Muslim Brotherhood members: political or criminal in nature? As addressed in the last post, earlier this year, the government of Egypt requested that INTERPOL issue Red Notices against...more
In the last post, RNLJ addressed the growing call for meaningful international responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. INTERPOL is among the organizations to which the world is looking for leadership on this issue,...more
INTERPOL’s annual General Assembly is underway, and by the end of Thursday, a new president of INTERPOL will have been elected. Based in part on INTERPOL’s candid responses to RNLJ’s questions regarding the organization’s...more
Red Notice removal requests are often strengthened by collaborative efforts between the attorney who is preparing the removal request and the attorney who represents or represented the client in the country where the notice...more
Every country has a different policy in regard to its antiquities and whether they should be returned to the country from which they originated. For example, the government of the Netherlands suggests that looted art should...more
A critical concern for people who have successfully applied to remove their Red Notices from INTERPOL’s Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files is the question of what will happen if the member country makes another...more
This week, I received a post idea from Rutsel Silvestre J. Martha, of Lindeborg Counsellors at Law. Mr. Martha is a highly respected expert on international law and his 2010 book, The Legal Foundations of INTERPOL, was one of...more
I have a client whose Red Notice was recently blocked by INTERPOL. Blocking is an interim measure that an attorney or client can request while the case is being studied by INTERPOL. When this happens, the notice is not...more
Red Notices are viewed as being at least theoretically valid based upon the requirement that they be approved by the General Secretariat prior to acceptance and/or publication by INTERPOL. ...more
Some Red Notice subjects are surprised when I tell them that they should not hire me to seek the removal of their names from INTERPOL’s wanted list. There are times when the best course of action is not to go to INTERPOL for...more
For people who find themselves the subject of Red Notices, it seems that the more questions they ask, the more confused they become. Part of this phenomenon is due to the nature of INTERPOL: it can be difficult to digest...more
One of the more inconvenient results of being the subject of a Red Notice is that your bank might break up with you. One of the more frustrating parts of that break up may be that the bank won’t say exactly why....more
As most followers of Russian news know by now, opposition leader and activist Alexei Navalny was detained immediately upon his recent return to Russia, after a 5-month absence due to his recovery in Germany from nerve agent...more
In the last post, I discussed the case of a man who had been placed into removal proceedings by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)....more
One of the most common concerns of people who are Red Notice subjects is how to live in peace while they seek the removal of their Red Notices, a process that can takes many months to complete. The most common ways that...more
Not lost in the chaos of all things related to outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump is Iran’s recent renewed request for Mr. Trump’s arrest. As reported here, Iran is seeking the arrest and extradition of Mr. Trump in order...more
A primary concern for clients who seek to remove Red Notices from INTERPOL’s databases is what happens after they succeed in their efforts. There are many purposes for seeking the removal of a Red Notice, but a main focus for...more
From my own backyard comes an interesting case. Clients often inquire about the relationship between immigration proceedings and criminal court proceedings, and this case is an example of how things usually do not go....more