Prepare For Your Notary Appointment

1. A Florida identification card or driver's license issued by the public agency authorized to issue driver's licenses.
2. A passport issued by the Department of State of the United States.
3. A passport issued by a foreign government if the document is stamped by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
4. A driver license or an identification card issued by a public agency authorized to issue driver licenses in a state other than Florida or in a territory of the United States, or Canada or Mexico.
5. An identification card issued by any branch of the armed forces of the United States.
6. A veteran health identification card issued by the United States Department of Veterans Affair.
7. An inmate identification card issued on or after January 1, 1991, by the Florida Department of Corrections for an inmate who is in the custody of the department.
8. An inmate identification card issued by the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, for an inmate who is in the custody of the department.
9. A sworn, written statement from a sworn law enforcement officer that the forms of identification for an inmate in an institution of confinement were confiscated upon confinement and that the person named in the document is the person whose signature is to be notarized.
10. An identification card issued by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.

In lieu of these documents

The sworn written statement of:

1. One credible witness personally known to both the signer and the notary public. 
2. Two credible witnesses whose identities are proven to the notary public upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence that each of the following is true:

• That the person whose signature is to be notarized is the person named in the document.
• That the person whose signature is to be notarized is personally known to the witnesses.
• That it is the reasonable belief of the witnesses that the circumstances of the person whose signature is to be notarized are such that it would be very difficult or impossible for that person to obtain another acceptable form of identification.
• That it is the reasonable belief of the witnesses that the person whose signature is to be notarized does not possess any of the identification documents. 
• That the witnesses do not have a financial interest in nor are parties to the underlying transaction.