The following are a list of documents that can be notarized:

• Real Estate Documents (deed, deed of trust, etc.)
• Financial Documents (mortgages, loan agreements, promissory notes, etc.)
• Estate Planning Documents (wills, trusts, etc.)
• Business Documents (bylaws, operating agreements, stock certificates, company forms, etc.)
• Purchase Agreements and Contracts
• Legal Documents (power of attorney, civil forms, etc.)
• Immigration Documents (visa applications, etc.)
• Personal Documents
• Affidavits, Oaths and Other Acknowledgements

The following are a list of documents that can not be notarized:

• No publicly recorded documents or photocopies/copies of public record documents including birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage licenses, divorce decrees, etc.
• No government-issued documents such as  passports, visas, diplomas, school transcripts, etc.
• No incomplete documents with blanks that aren't filled in
• No documents in languages other than English
• No documents without a notary certificate (phrasing needed for a notarization to occur)
• No documents where the person is not physically present when the document is being notarized
• No certification of verbal oaths, affirmations, or depositions.
• No I-9 Form (Employment Eligibility Verification)

Example of a Notary Certificate (wording to be included on documents to be notarized):

State of Texas

County of_______________________________

BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, on this date of__________________________________________(insert date), personally appeared ________________________________________(insert person signing), known by me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that they executed this document for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.

__________________________

(Signature of Notary Public)

__________________________________

Printed Name of Notary Public as Commissioned

______________________________________

My Commission Expires:

 (Notary’s Seal)