What do you do if your consulate general violates the law?
<p>If you live abroad as a foreign national, there are certain government services that you must keep obtaining from your own government through a Consulate General (e.g. passport issue/renewal).</p>

<p>However, if the Consulate General fails to provide such services in a satisfactory fashion, and the complaints go unanswered, is there any recourse?</p>

<p>For example, if you're a Russian citizen living abroad, and you suspect that the Consulate General violates your rights granted through Russian law, it's not like you can just sue them to defend your rights in the American or English court, or is it?</p>

<p>Any recourse is through the consulate country's government.  International Law does not provide for one country to meddle in the administrative affairs of another.</p>

<p>The only other recourse is to seek asylum or citizenship in another country from which you might obtain whatever services are being denied to you.</p>

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