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A Notary Public is an official of integrity appointed by the Secretary Of State. Notaries serve the public as impartial witnesses (duty-bound not to act in situations where they have a personal interest) in performing various official fraud-deterrent acts related to signing important documents. These official acts are called notarizations or notarial acts.

The most frequent service a Notary Public performs is the simple one of taking someone’s acknowledgment. An acknowledgment is the solemn statement of a person that he or she signed a paper of their own free will. The notary verifies the person’s identity, presses his/her notary seal on the document and signs it where the notary is meant to sign

Notarization does not guarantee that the information on a document is accurate or legal.

The signer is responsible for the content of the document. The Notary Public certifies the signer’s identity by verifying a current identifying document containing a photo, physical description, and signature.

To deter fraud.

Having a notary serve as a third-party witness ensures that the signers of a document are who they say they are and that they signed the document of their own free will. The most common notarization is an acknowledgment – a person’s sworn statement that he or she signed a paper of his or her own free will. To do this, a notary must verify the signer’s identity, apply his or her seal to the document, and sign it.

For a notary to issue acknowledgment, the document doesn't need to be signed in his or her presence. However, the signer must still appear before the notary at the time of the acknowledgment to swear he or she freely signed for the purposes stated in the document under his or her own will.

Some services, such as jurats, require the document to be signed in the notary’s presence. A jurat requires the wording “subscribed and sworn to” on the document just above where the Notary Public signs his or her name.

You have several options for obtaining your NYC birth certificate:

Online: The easiest and fasted way is online VitalCheck. This authorized vendor offers expedited service for both online and phone orders.

Birth certificates outside NYC: If you were born outside New York City, you'll need to contact the state's or county's vital records office.

You can obtain a Letter of Exemplification for your NYC birth certificate alongside the certified, long-form copy from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

They are only issued as part of the same request; you cannot get them separately.

The fastest way to apply for both the certified copy and the Letter of Exemplification is online.

VitaCheck: This authorized vendor offers expedited service for both online and phone orders

Each signer must present at least one of the forms of photo ID listed below unless the signer is personally known to the Notary.

The ID must be current or, if expired, have been issued within the last five years; contain the signer’s photograph, personal description, and signature; and bear a serial or other identifying numbers. A document signer personally known to the Notary doesn’t need to present an ID.

• Current driver’s License or non-driver’s ID card issued by a U.S. State

• Current U.S. Passport

• Current U.S. Military Identification Card

• Current driver’s license issued in Mexico or Canada

• Current foreign passport

• Current inmate ID.