Online notarization
Fast and clean when the signer, identity evidence, notary state, document, and recipient all fit the route.
Wet ink and paper routing
Wet ink is not the same question as accepted.
Some recipients want original paper. Some accept online notarization. Some need a paper apostille. Some only need scan-back. Upload the document or recipient instructions first; we explain the suggested path before anyone overbuilds it.
Plain answer
Upload the document. We will explain the suggested path.
That may be online notarization, local notarization, a wet-ink original, a paper apostille, a scan-back, direct shipping, or a different route. The right answer comes from the document and the receiving party, not from guessing in chat.
If a local or in-person route is better, we will say that. If an online route is cleaner, we will say that too.
What to send
Send the document PDF or a clear image, the recipient instructions, who signs, where each signer is located, whether original paper is required, the deadline, and the shipping destination.
Route pieces
The confusing parts are separate jobs.
Most customer messes start when these get collapsed into one big assumption.
Wet-ink originals
Sometimes the receiving office wants physical signatures or original paper. That still does not answer who can notarize or where the apostille comes from.
Paper apostille
A physical apostille may be the right output. A scan-back can help speed communication, but it is still a copy of paper.
Electronic apostille
A born-digital e-Apostille is issued by the proper authority. A notarized PDF or online session is not automatically an e-Apostille.
Original delivery
When we handle shipping, we create and control the label inside the Notary Geek workflow. We do not take a customer carrier account number in chat.
Acceptance check
The receiving party may care about paper, witnesses, wording, destination country, notarization type, or the apostille authority. That is the route.
Video is not magic
A video call by itself is not the route.
Watching someone sign paper on video is not automatically a valid notarial act. A generic video meeting, a mailed original, or a hybrid signing plan still has to fit the notary law, signer location, document type, and recipient acceptance.
Notary Geek can tell you the customer-safe path without publishing every internal state, vendor, partner, or logistics detail in a public chat before the route is accepted.
No office-location shortcut
A public address or public notary listing does not create an appointment, route commitment, in-person service promise, or physical-location disclosure for a specific job.
Start with the document. Then we can decide what is actually possible.
Signer first
Coordinators can help with logistics, but the signer cannot disappear.
We may work with assistants, translators, agents, family members, or coordinators for logistics. But identity steps, selfie/liveness checks, consent, signer capacity, and final route decisions cannot be handled by an anonymous third party pretending to be the signer or document owner.