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What’s the problem with RON and foreign nationals?

Florida – and most states that have adopted RON – require that the signer successfully navigate the ID credentialing and KBA processes discussed above as a pre-condition of signing instruments remotely from the online notary. The KBA questions are computer-generated and derived from third party sources that rely in large part on the signer’s U.S. credit history. Foreign nationals oftentimes do not have a sufficient base of information needed to build the KBA questions, thus making it difficult to use RON with a foreign national signer.


Florida – and most states that have adopted RON – require that the signer successfully navigate the ID credentialing and KBA processes discussed above as a pre-condition of signing instruments remotely from the online notary. The KBA questions are computer-generated and derived from third party sources that rely in large part on the signer’s U.S. credit history. Foreign nationals oftentimes do not have a sufficient base of information needed to build the KBA questions, thus making it difficult to use RON with a foreign national signer.