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I know its a long shot but is anyone at all aware of a US registered notary living in Saigon. Im selling my home in the US. I know the US embassy is an option but I have closing documents that require a wet seal and notarization from both myself and my wife and from my understanding they will not allow both of us in at the same time so it requires 2 entirely separate appointments which are a week apart and closing is this week. - @jrharvey

I'd like to be encouraging, because I seem to recall (after visiting the embassy in Hanoi In September, 2022, to notarize our marriage certificate from Quảng Ngãi) that I could have had my wife accompany me, IF I had listed her on the online appointment request before going to the embassy.

That's just a fuzzy memory, not a statement of fact.

But I think that's moot, because the US State Department recently put out a new directive stopping embassies around the world from notarizing documents from the United States.

They're still allowed to provide notary services, but only for documents originating from within the host nation.

The only other alternative is to submit US generated documents directly to the US State Department.

So if you have a document that originates in Vietnam that needs to be used in the United States, the embassy or consulate will notarize that.

But it appears that they will not notarize something from the United States to be used in the United States.

Apologies for being the bearer of bad news...

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