Remote Notary vs Mobile Notary

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Which is better, Online Notary or Mobile Notary?

Approximately 1.25 billion documents are signed and notarized each year in the United States. Some such documents include Power of Attorney, Last Will and Testament, contracts, and loan documents. There are a variety of ways to connect with a Notary Public. Often there is one provided at the lawyers office, or one available at your employer. But, many people do not have ready access to a Notary when they need it. There are options available. You can go find a Notary Public, at a mailbox or package store, but privacy is not exactly afforded to you and the other signers. There are two other options that do afford privacy and convenience: Mobile Notary and Remote Online Notary

Mobile Notary Public

A Mobile Notary Public is simply a Notary who travels to the location you choose. This may be your home, your business/employer, or a public venue like a coffee shop. The notarization process involves the traditional ink signatures on paper documents and an ink signature and Notary Seal. The identification process for each signer is completely manual – the Notary examines your government issued identification and will likely ack some basic questions to identify you and the other signers.

Remote Online Notary

A Remote Online Notary is a specially appointed Notary Public who will notarize your documents that are signed electronically in an online video meeting. The signers must undergo an identification verification process that includes Knowledge Base Authentication, computerized Credential Analysis, as well as a review of identification by the Notary Public. This process ensures that you and only you are signing the documents. Online Notarized Documents also provide secure technology to prevent tampering with the document once signed, and comes with a complete unchangeable audit trail to ensure that the document is the exact document that was signed.
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Advantages of Mobile Notary

The advantages of Mobile Notary Services is that most of us are familiar with the traditional ink and paper process. The actual in person meeting is something most of us are accustomed to doing. However, there are some drawbacks. Beyond the questions of document and identify security, the mobile notary service requires getting all of the signers together in one place at one time with the Notary Public. Sometimes a signer is out of State so then you can sign and notarize the document then it has to be sent to the other signers by mail and back.

Remote Online Notary Service Solves Logistical Issues

In Tennessee the Remote Online Notary can notarize a document that is electronically signed online no matter where the signers are physically located. The Tennessee Notary must be physically present in the State of Tennessee. So, if you have a document that needs to be signed and you are here in Tennessee, but the other signer is in California, or perhaps there are multiple signers in various states – Remote Online Notary Session can resolve this issue. The session could be concurrent all at once or split. But whichever way the meeting is conducted there are no mail or delivery delays. The partially signed document does not get sent to and from, it stays in the secure electronic notary system awaiting the other signers.

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