US practitioners must remember that, pursuant to Article 5 of the Hague Service Convention, the relevant documents will be served pursuant to the local laws of the foreign state, not the laws of the US jurisdiction where the case was filed and not pursuant to any special appointment that may have been made by the US court.
Additionally, pursuant to Articles 4 and 13 of the Hague Service Convention, if the Central Authority of the Destination State considers the request to be a violation of the country’s national sovereignty, it may reject the request for service. Then, the US practitioner will be forced to start the entire process again, wasting valuable time and money.