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Acceptable forms of identification for notarizations

Updated: Nov 10

In Florida, notarizing of any document requires verification of identity of the person signing the document. To do so, the signer must present an acceptable form of identification. Here acceptable forms of identification per the Florida statues:

Any one of the following forms of identification, if the document is current or has been issued within the past 5 years and bears a serial or other identifying number:


A. A Florida identification card or driver’s license issued by the public agency authorized to issue driver’s licenses.

B. A passport issued by the Department of State of the United States.

C. A passport issued by a foreign government if the document is stamped by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.

D. A driver’s license or an identification card issued by a public agency authorized to issue driver’s licenses in a state other than Florida, a territory of the United States, Canada or Mexico.

E. An identification card issued by any branch of the armed forces of the United States.

F. 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.

G. 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.

H. 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; or

I. An identification card issued by the United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.


References:


Florida Statues. (2000-2024). Section 117.05: 2011 Florida Statues. Retrieved from

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