In-Office Notary Service in Tewksbury, MA

In-office is the right choice when the signer can travel, has valid ID, and has one or a few routine documents. You pay a flat $45 per notarial act instead of a zone fee, and you are in and out in minutes. Same notary, same commission, same seal, same journal entry; the only thing missing is the drive.

Mobile service exists for the situations where the signer cannot come to us: a hospital bed at Lowell General or Lahey Burlington, an assisted-living resident in Andover, a closing deadline at a lender’s office in Boston, or a family that needs to sign together on a Sunday. For everyone else, the Tewksbury office is faster and less expensive. Compare the two below.

Every notarial act performed at 1215 Main St, Suite 115 is $45. A notarial act is one notarial certificate completed and sealed: one acknowledgment, one jurat, one signature witnessing or one copy certification. A single document with one signer and one certificate is one act. A document with two signers who each need their own acknowledgment is two acts. A power of attorney plus a separate health care proxy is two acts. We tell you the count before anything is signed.

Massachusetts law sets a small statutory fee for the notarial act itself; the $45 in-office rate is a flat service fee that reflects the review, journal entry, certificate and the notary’s time, and it includes the few minutes of document review that catch problems before the seal goes on. There is no travel fee, no after-hours surcharge during office hours and no charge for checking that your certificate is Massachusetts-compliant. Multi-document packages for businesses, loan signings and recurring accounts are quoted at booking. Mobile visits follow the zone fees on our notary zones page.

Apostilles and copy certifications in office

If your document is going abroad, the notarization is the first step and the Massachusetts apostille is the second. The notarization is $45 per act; the apostille is the $6 Secretary of the Commonwealth state fee per document plus our service fee, quoted per document, and we submit to the Commissions Section in Boston for you. Certified copies of passports, diplomas and other originals under M.G.L. c.222 s.15 are also performed in office at the same $45 rate; see copy certification notary for what can and cannot be copy-certified in Massachusetts.

You present ID, we check the document, you sign (or swear) in front of the notary, the certificate is completed and sealed, the journal is signed, and you pay. For one document the whole thing takes five to ten minutes.

1. Arrival and identification. Hanson asks for your photo ID and the document. He compares the photo, name and signature on the ID to you and to the document, and records the ID type and details in the notary journal as Massachusetts requires. About one minute.
2. Document review. He checks for blank pages, missing exhibits and the notarial certificate. If the certificate is from another state or missing required Massachusetts elements, he attaches a compliant one. He does not read the document for meaning or advise on it.
3. Willingness and awareness. Massachusetts notaries must be satisfied the signer is acting voluntarily and understands they are signing. Hanson will ask a question or two; this is standard, not an interrogation.
4. Signature, or oath and signature. For an acknowledgment, you sign and acknowledge the signature as yours. For a jurat, Hanson administers the oath or affirmation and you sign in his presence. For a signature witnessing, you sign while he watches.
5. Certificate, seal and journal. He completes the certificate with the venue (Middlesex County), date, his printed name exactly as commissioned, signature, commission expiration and seal, then you sign the journal entry.
6. Payment and receipt. Pay at the desk; a printed or emailed receipt is available. If you want a certified copy or a scan of the notarized document, ask before you leave.

The journal entry is not a formality. Massachusetts notaries must keep a chronological record of every notarial act, including the date, the type of act, the document, the signer’s name and address, and how the signer was identified. That record is what allows a court, registry or foreign authority to confirm years later that the notarization happened as the certificate says. It is also why we ask every signer for ID even when Hanson knows them.

Several services that are hard to find in one place in the Merrimack Valley are routine here.

• Arabic and French notarization. Hanson Webb is fluent in English, Arabic and French and conducts the appointment in the signer’s preferred language. The notarial certificate is always in English. No interpreter is needed, which matters for consular paperwork, foreign powers of attorney and family documents.
• Apostille preparation and submission. We notarize to the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s standard, submit to the Commissions Section in Boston for the $6 state fee per document plus our quoted service fee, and return or ship the apostilled original.
• Copy certification. True-copy certifications of passports, diplomas, licenses and other originals under M.G.L. c.222 s.15, often needed for immigration and foreign filings. Vital records and recordable documents cannot be copy-certified by a notary; we point you to the issuing office instead.
• Translation coordination. We do not translate, but when a document needs a translation before or after notarization we coordinate with professional translators so the sequence (translate, certify, notarize, apostille) is correct.
• Corporate and recurring accounts. Law firms, title companies, employers, property managers and staffing agencies can set up monthly invoicing and priority scheduling. Call (978) 851-0199.
• Loan signing support. As an NNA Certified Signing Agent, Hanson handles refinance and purchase packages at the office when the closing attorney or lender arranges it, in support of the attorney who conducts the closing.

Power of attorney for an aging parent

Adult children regularly bring a parent to the office to sign a durable power of attorney naming them as financial agent. The parent is the signer, so the parent must appear in person, present a current ID and be able to understand and willingly sign the document; Hanson will speak with the parent directly, not only with the child. Bring the unsigned POA and any witnesses the form calls for (you arrange them). One acknowledgment is one $45 act. A health care proxy signed the same day is a second act. Allow 10 to 15 minutes. For details on the document itself, see our power of attorney notarization page.

I-9 Section 2 for a remote employer

Companies based outside Massachusetts send new hires in Tewksbury, Lowell and Andover to the office for Form I-9 Section 2. Bring the form with Section 1 completed and signed, your original List A document or List B plus List C documents, and the employer’s name, address and HR email. Hanson examines the originals and completes Section 2 as the employer’s authorized representative; no seal is applied, because the I-9 is not a notarization. The completed form is scanned to HR the same day. About 10 minutes.

CORI acknowledgment form

Youth sports leagues, school volunteer programs, licensing boards and some employers require a notarized CORI Acknowledgement Form when they cannot verify your ID in person. Bring the form completed but unsigned, plus your photo ID. Hanson verifies the ID, watches you sign and completes the notary section. Five to ten minutes, one act.

Deed or other recording document

Sellers, borrowers paying off a mortgage and condominium trustees bring deeds, discharges, 6D certificates and trustee certificates for acknowledgment before the closing attorney records them at the Middlesex North Registry in Lowell or the Essex North Registry in Lawrence. Bring all signers with ID and the complete document. Hanson confirms the certificate has every element the registry checks. Ten to twenty minutes, one act per signer certificate.

Corporate filing or certificate of vote

Small-business owners, nonprofit clerks and condominium boards notarize certificates of vote, articles, banking resolutions and incumbency certificates here weekly. Bring every signing officer with ID and the vote or resolution that authorizes them. Fifteen to twenty-five minutes for a typical set, quoted per act or per package for larger stacks.

Last reviewed October 15, 2026