U.S. Bank, ISSAQUAH BRANCH

This comment is in response to the woman who is disappointed because the notary at the bank refused to sign a form she brought in that she had downloaded from the Brazilian Consulate; I am a notary, and the company that I work (I do Not work at a bank) for pays the fees associated with renewing my notary stamp And the bond that is required to be a notary. However it is up to ME to ensure that the correct verbiage is on the form that I am notarizing. Just because I have a notary bond doesn't mean that I cannot personally cannot be held liable if something isn't correct, I WILL be held liable if I notarize a form with incorrect verbiage. My guess is that the form that this customer had brought in did not comply to the WA State laws that are in place; these are rules that all of us notaries have to abide by. When we, as notaries, are not certain of something or know for a fact that the form you have presented us with doesn't have the correct verbiage on it, we have to refuse to notarize your signature because we could personally be held liable for errors. The notary was simply protecting his/her interest, and the fact that the customer was able to "fix" her situation across the street for $10 tells me that some people that have notary stamps don't care if they could be held liable for an error or not, they are just out to make money. Believe me when I say that once you've had an investigator show up with obviously forged documents that you supposedly notarized and are then forced to surrender your stamp and have a new one made that looks different because of the forgery, you tend to pay Very close attention to exactly What you are notarizing and for Whom.