What Miami sends me
The requests that come most often from this part of Florida:
- Powers of attorney for property and inheritance in Latin America.
- Sworn statements and single status declarations heading to a consulate.
- Documents that will need an apostille from the Florida Department of State.
- Company paperwork signed by directors who travel constantly.
- Travel consent letters for children visiting family abroad.
Worth knowing in Miami
A large share of Miami's work ends up abroad, which means the notarization is only the first step and the apostille, or consular legalization for countries outside the Hague Convention, comes after it.
Traffic and parking are the reason many people here choose an online session: fifteen minutes on video beats an hour each way across Miami-Dade.
Documents for Cuba are the exception worth flagging, because Cuba is not part of the Hague Convention and needs the longer consular chain instead of an apostille.
How an online session works
You book a time, and I send a secure link, usually for the same day or the next, and the platform then checks your identification and asks a few questions drawn from public records, before we meet on video, where I confirm you understand what you are signing and that nobody is pressuring you.
You sign electronically, I complete the notarial certificate, and you download the finished document with its seal and audit trail, all of which normally takes about fifteen minutes.
What you need
- A phone, tablet or computer with a camera and microphone.
- A current, government-issued photo ID.
- The document, complete and unsigned.
- Confirmation from the office receiving it that they accept an electronic notarization.
In person, honestly
I am based in Lakeland and travel inside Polk County, so I do not drive to Miami for a signing, so if your document has to be signed on paper in front of a notary, look for a mobile notary there, and if it can be done online, we can start today.
Frequently asked questions
- Do you travel to Miami?
- No, I travel inside Polk County only, and everything else is done in an online session, which is valid across Florida and carries the same legal weight as signing in person.
- Is an online notarization valid here?
- Yes, Florida authorized remote online notarization in 2020, and a document notarized this way has the same effect as one notarized across a desk, though the office receiving it can still ask for paper.
- My document is going to Venezuela or Colombia — can you handle it?
- Yes, that is a large part of the work: I notarize the document, explain the apostille filing, and translate between English and Spanish if the destination asks for it.
- Can two relatives in different Miami neighbourhoods sign the same document?
- Yes, and they do not even have to be in the same session, because each signature is notarized separately.