If the United States is seeking you from the United Kingdom, the 2003 bilateral treaty and Extradition Act 2003 Part 2 control the fight - not embassy urgency. A District Judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court tests the package first. The Secretary of State then decides surrender. US requests use asymmetric evidence standards - no classic prima facie case in the UK sense. Forum bar, ECHR Article 3 and Article 8, and death-penalty assurances still move outcomes on fraud and cyber packages aimed at SDNY and EDNY. Spodek Law Group P.C. owes loyalty to only YOU. Risk-free consultation. Call 212 300 5196 - attorney on call, 24/7.
Part 2 sequence - District Judge first, Secretary of State second.
Extradition Act 2003 Part 2 is sequenced, not ceremonial. The District Judge hears identity, extradition offense, bars, and human-rights compatibility. Only after that judicial runway does the Secretary of State decide surrender. Evidence sufficiency arguments belong in Westminster. Diplomatic assurances and specialty posture belong in the ministerial record. Argue the wrong defects to the wrong decision-maker and you burn months while bail conditions tighten.
Asymmetric evidence - US paper is lighter than many families expect.
Under the 2003 framework, US requests do not arrive as a full Crown Court disclosure file. Summaries and affidavits can carry weight that older UK extradition culture would have rejected. That asymmetry is not a surrender order. Identity gaps, overbroad conspiracy wrappers, specialty risks, and ECHR pressure points still live in the Act. We make absences visible before anyone treats a thin US package as inevitable proof.
Forum bar - where trial should actually happen.
The forum bar asks whether the United Kingdom is the proper place for trial when substantial connections sit here. Residence, witnesses, harm location, and prosecutorial choices matter - not slogans about fairness. US fraud and cyber theories often straddle London desks and New York dockets. Forum strategy must be built while the US indictment is still malleable, not invented after judicial findings harden.
ECHR Article 3 and Article 8 - death assurances and private life.
Article 3 bars inhuman treatment exposure, including death-penalty and extreme sentence risk when assurances are thin. Article 8 protects private and family life when extradition uproots children, medical care, or fragile dependents. Death assurances are not boilerplate. Overbroad murder or racketeering wrappers can reopen assurance fights midstream. We treat human-rights arguments as structured Act defenses, not afterthoughts.
Fraud and cyber packages - do not interview yourself north.
US requests from London corridors often stack wire fraud, market manipulation, and computer-intrusion theories. Chat exports and exchange KYC files need English offense mapping before anyone calls dual criminality obvious. Agents push voluntary return scripts that collapse Part 2 review. You need UK solicitors for Westminster and US counsel for the district waiting after Heathrow. Spodek Law Group P.C. coordinates both under one strategy from day one.
