Notary commissions are issued by individual states, which raises a common question: what happens when a document, a signer, and a property don’t all live in the same state? The short version is that the notary’s location is what governs the notarization, not the document’s origin or destination.

A common real estate example

If you’re buying a property in one state but you live in another, you don’t need to travel. A notary licensed in your state can notarize your signature wherever you are, and the document is still valid where the property sits. The notarization block on the document simply reflects the state and county where the signing actually took place.

Remote online notarization has made this even more common, since it lets a single notary witness signers in multiple locations in the same session, as long as each state’s RON rules are being followed correctly.

With coverage across 16+ states and both in-person and remote options, we can usually match a multi-state closing to a single notary rather than juggling different providers for each signer.