Reply by SarahBeth_CA on 11/11/06 11:10pm
Msg #159171
What does your handbook say? Read what is acceptable ID for notarization and go with it. However I think you may be asking this because these are loan docs and your wondering if the LO is ok with an ID from Mexico. From an SA standpoint it is the lender that would decide if they will accept it for lending purposes. ID is usually checked prior to the drawing of docs. As SA's we are there to collect signatures, initials, and dates. As notaries we are there to ID the persons whom signatures are to be notarized.
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Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 11/12/06 1:16am
Msg #159205
Re: checking ID's statement
*** ID is usually checked prior to the drawing of docs ***
If this were really true then you would think that the docs would be drawn correctly with the correct name(s) on the documents that match their ID's, and that they would make a copy of the ID's at the time so that we don't have to get copies or have borrowers fax them.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but I really don't think it is the norm to check ID's BEFORE drawing the docs. JMHO 
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Reply by Joe Ewing on 11/12/06 10:45am
Msg #159236
Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall
Abolishing America (contd.): Mexico Ceded Right To Say Whom U.S. Can Deport
The hottest item now available at 46 Mexican consuls in the United States is the "matricula consular", or consular card, an official Mexican ID granted by the Mexican government to Mexicans living in the United States.
What exactly is a "consular card"?
Although the card can be accepted in lieu of a Mexican passport when returning to Mexico, it is not a Mexican passport. A Mexican passport is granted in Mexico to Mexicans planning to travel outside of Mexico. Mexicans who travel legally to the U.S. take out passports before they ever leave Mexico. Therefore they already have their ID.
Those who apply for consular cards, however, apply when they are already in the U.S. Hmmmm.....
The cards have been accepted as valid by the Wells Fargo Bank and by the police chiefs of Orange County, who on November 7th, "secretly met and unanimously approved a policy that encourages officers to accept cards issued by the Mexican government as identification for people stopped for minor offenses."
The Mexican consul at Santa Ana, California, attempts to reassure us by asserting that "The card has enough information to identify the person. It has nothing to do with immigration and the INS."
If you believe that, I have some office space in the World Trade Center I'd like to sell you.
No doubt that the Mexican consular card, which has existed for a couple of decades now, has some legitimate purpose. But nowadays its main function, as far as the Mexican government is concerned, is to prevent the deportation of Mexican illegal aliens from the U.S.
That, in fact, is exactly what the Siglo, a Mexican newspaper, has reported. An article dated November 5th, 2001, written by Monica Solis, the Siglo's correspondent in Los Angeles, California, couldn't be clearer.
Ms. Solis bemoans the plight of Mexican illegal aliens in the U.S. who are jailed for misdemeanors and then deported without due process:
Thus various immigrants have wound up being deported because of a traffic violation when they don't have a driver's license or valid ID.
But not to worry, help is on the way! The article continues:
The frequent deportation of Mexicans for lack of an ID card can become a thing of the past, with the approval of an initiative that proposes the acceptance of the matricula consular (issued by the Mexican government through its consulates in the entire country), as an official identification document for police authorities when they detain or intercept Mexicans.
So the Mexican government is distributing these consular cards, on American soil, with the specific purpose of preventing the deportation of Mexican illegal aliens.
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