The US Central Authority for the Hague Convention (OCI) is not meant to be a paper-pushing administrative bureaucracy. I won't belabor that point any more than to quote the Hague Abduction Convention:
Article 2
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Contracting States shall take all appropriate measures to secure within their territories the implementation of the objects of the Convention. For this purpose they shall use the most expeditious procedures available.Article 7
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Central Authorities shall co-operate with each other and promote co-operation amongst the competent authorities in their respective States to secure the prompt return of children and to achieve the other objects of this Convention.In particular, either directly or through any intermediary, they shall take all appropriate measures -a) to discover the whereabouts of a child who has been wrongfully removed or retained;
b) to prevent further harm to the child or prejudice to interested parties by taking or causing to be taken provisional measures;
c) to secure the voluntary return of the child or to bring about an amicable resolution of the issues;
d) to exchange, where desirable, information relating to the social background of the child; e)
to provide information of a general character as to the law of their State in connection with the application of the Convention; f)
to initiate or facilitate the institution of judicial or administrative proceedings with a view to obtaining the return of the child and, in a proper case, to make arrangements for organising or securing the effective exercise of rights of access;
g) where the circumstances so require, to provide or facilitate the provision of legal aid and advice, including the participation of legal counsel and advisers; h) to provide such administrative arrangements as may be necessary and appropriate to secure the safe return of the child;
i) to keep each other informed with respect to the operation of this Convention and, as far as possible, to eliminate any obstacles to its application.
In relation to your wife's fraudulent custody order:
Article 17
The sole fact that a decision relating to custody has been given in or is entitled to recognition in the requested State shall not be a ground for refusing to return a child under this Convention, but the judicial or administrative authorities of the requested State may
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Notwithstanding any of the above, all you should need to do is request the documents from the court yourself and send them to the OCI and ask OCI to forward them to the Irish CA as evidence in your case. Under Article 23 of the Convention you do not need your court documents legalized or certified in any way to submit them as evidence. You could also submit these documents directly to the Irish attorneys, the Irish CA or the court hearing your Hague case but it's usually better to do so through OCI.
