Before you visit a Notary, you should take the following steps to ensure that your documents are notarised in an efficient and cost-effective way: Before you attend a Notary If you require a notary to certify or attest to a private document for use in a foreign country, it is highly recommended that you ask a lawyer from the country in question, to draft the document. While it is certainly possible for Notaries to draft legal documents, it is very difficult, unless the Notary is intimately familiar with the applicable laws of the foreign country, to guarantee that the document will be valid in that jurisdiction. Accordingly, we would highly recommend that you hire a lawyer from the country in question to draft the document/s. If you require assistance in this regard, we can assist you with locating and contacting overseas lawyers. It is also highly recommended that you take time to carefully review the documents you wish to have notarised before you attend a Notary pu...