Yes. There are two workarounds: (i) if the online notary personally knows the foreign national signer and the platform being utilized allows for the bypass of ID credentialing and KBA, the online notary may be able to proceed with the online signing, provided that he or she marks “personally known to me” within the notarial certificate; (ii) the use of a Virginia online notary may allow for sufficient identity-proofing of a non-U.S. citizen and many platforms have access to Virginia online notaries. Old Republic and The Fund have issued a bulletin regarding the use of a Virginia notary. Suffice it to say, the risk of fraud decreases if the issuing-agent personally knows the foreign national signer and increases if the foreign national signer is unknown to the issuing-agent.
Yes. There are two workarounds: (i) if the online notary personally knows the foreign national signer and the platform being utilized allows for the bypass of ID credentialing and KBA, the online notary may be able to proceed with the online signing, provided that he or she marks “personally known to me” within the notarial certificate; (ii) the use of a Virginia online notary may allow for sufficient identity-proofing of a non-U.S. citizen and many platforms have access to Virginia online notaries.
Old Republic and The Fund have issued a bulletin regarding the use of a Virginia notary. Suffice it to say, the risk of fraud decreases if the issuing-agent personally knows the foreign national signer and increases if the foreign national signer is unknown to the issuing-agent.