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May 17, 2012

Can a notary from New Jersey be a Pennsylvania Notary?

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Can a notary from New Jersey be a Pennsylvania notary?

If you are a New Jersey notary public, you can become dual commissioned in Pennsylvania as a Pennsylvania notary public. Just contact the Pennsylvania notary division and fill out a Pennsylvania notary application. The rule is that you need to work in Pennsylvania or have an office in Pennsylvania. I’m not sure if you can convince the Pennsylvania Secretary of State to let you get a notary commission if you plan on doing traveling notarizations right across the border, but it is worth a try. Many of the border areas are very sparsely populated, so I feel you are doing a service to humanity be being dual commissioned.

Please keep in mind that if you have a dual commission, you have two sets of seals and journals. One seal and Journal for New Jersey (or whatever state #1 is), and another seal and journal for Pennsylvania. Please make sure that you only use the Pennvsylvania notary seal when your two feet are on Pennsylvania soil (or concrete), and only use the New Jersey notary seal when your two feet are in New Jersey.

If you have one foot in PA, and the other in NJ, then I guess you could use either seal (or use half of the NJ seal and half of the PA seal) — sorry… “humor”…

Dual state commissioned notaries make more money!
If you are serious about making money as a traveling notary, you need to have a wide net. You need to cover a wide territory and be flexible about where you go. Take on new clients with far away jobs just to get in their good graces and get on their database. In the long run this pays off generously. To succeed in life you need a well established client base, and this is not possible if you regularly say, “no, it’s too far”. If you live near a border, a dual commission can double your territory without doubling your travel distance!