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[meroberts]

If that is the case, we can try to find a another way to resolve this dilemma. It is expensive to travel to SMA just for a signature that will be accepted in the US. What have people done in the past? I have had several documents to notarize but I go to SMA twice a week and I just came back from McAllen where I was able to notarize two of them. I say nothing is impossible if we just pursue it. Anyone wants a challenge out there? :)
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But there's another wrinkle - even if someone were to become a Commissioner of Deeds and whose state allowed extraterritorial administration the Commissioner's acts have to be allowed under local law.

"Possible Repercussions of American Notaries or Other Persons Notarizing Documents Abroad: Notarizing documents by a person not empowered by treaty or local (foreign) law to perform such acts may result in the arrest of a commissioner of deeds of American notary, even through the act is authorized by the laws of the commissioner or notary''s home state. The Department of State is concerned that, in the exercise of their powers, state commissioners of deeds or notaries public may unknowingly violate the judicial sovereignty of a foreign country by usurping the functions of duly authorized foreign officials. All U.S. Foreign Service posts are therefore instructed to advise the Department of State of the operation of any American commissioners of deeds or notaries public in their consular districts." http://travel.state.gov/law/info/info_630.html