| If you are commissioned in California your notarizations are authenticated by the California Secretary of State. At that point, an Apostille is affixed to your document. Whether you personally obtain or submit them through a third party, you should proceed with caution because the Clerks at the SOS are very picky. If a notarization is detected with even the slightest error, the notarization will be rejected. Rejection means unnecessary delays and in the case of an adoption (for example), that can easily happen due to a large number of notarized documents. For example, I have expedited thousands of Apostilles and due to my extensive pre-submission document screening, the only ones to ever be rejected by the SOS clerks are the ones not notarized by me. The last major rejection I had was due to the client's notary not bothering to give her oath at the County Clerks office and detected immediately by the SOS. |
