Your Mobile Notary in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A Notary Public is an official of integrity appointed by state government —typically by the secretary of state — to serve the public as an impartial witness in performing a variety of official fraud-deterrent acts related to the signing of important documents.

A Mobile Notary is a Notary who travels to your location to perform the notarization.

Notarization is the official process that assures the parties of a transaction that a document is authentic, and can be trusted. Notarization is performed by an impartial Notary Public, appointed by the Secretary of State (in California), certifying that a document is authentic, that its signature is genuine. Note that a Notary cannot provide legal advice, verify the accuracy or validity of the document.

• California Drivers License or ID card.

• A U.S. State Department issued U.S. Passport

• Drivers License or ID card issued by another state.

• U.S. Military identification

• Foreign Passport

• California state, County, or City Id card (with photo, serial number, signature, and or issue/expiration date.)

• A Consular card: must have a physical description, photo, signature, serial #.

• Federally recognized Tribal ID card: must have a physical description, photo, signature, serial#.

• Inmate ID card or wristband for incarcerated signers.

NOTE: All of the above ID cards must be either current or issued within the last 5 years. They are the only CA approved forms of ID.

If you are not able to provide those forms of ID you may be identified on the oath or affirmation of credible identifying witnesses who have their own proper ID. Credible identifying witnesses must have personal knowledge of your identity, believe it is not reasonable for you to obtain the proper ID, they cannot have any financial interest in the document being signed, they should be honest and aware.

• Acknowledgement: The identified signer personally appears before the Notary, signs the document or acknowledged that he or she signed the document.

• Proof of Execution by Subscribing witness: An individual vouches before a Notary that he or she witnessed the principal signer of a document signed the document.  They must appear with one credible witness who has valid ID, and who the notary personally knows in front of the notary.

• Jurat: The identified signer personally appears before the notary, signs in the presence of the notary and is administered an oath or affirmation declaring the truthfulness of the document.

• Oath/Affirmation: Spoken promises of truthfulness made in the presence of the Notary (e.g., Oath of Office, witness for testimony, depositions).

• Copy Certification: Notary certifies a copy is an accurate reproduction of the original.

In those cases where the signer is mentally competent to sign , but too physically frail or ill to sign for his/herself, there is a procedure in place called “signature by mark”. The protocol calls for 2 witnesses. The signer makes a mark, frequently an “X” which is witnessed by the 2 witnesses. There is a form the notary can provide which one of the witnesses fill out that and both witnesses sign it. The procedure essentially converts the “X” into a legal signature for the purposes of that particular document.