VA Notaries can swear in Federal Employees

When a federal employee begins employment with agency or changes from one federal agency to another federal agency the employee is required to be sworn in. This is accomplish by a federal affidavit that is filled in by the employee and Va notary swears the employee in doing a jurat and filling in the location, date, signing the form and stamping the affidavit with the notary stamp showing commission expiration date, and appointment number. The literature is not clear whether a state notary can swear in a US President. However, a US President is a federal employee and I have concluded that a VA notary in VA could swear in a US President using the standard federal employee affidavit. However,I do not thing this issue will before any VA notary anytime in the future.

As I have clearly said in an earlier blog entry, all VA notaries are authorized to swear in witnesses for depositions on federal property located in VA