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Originally Posted by tommyhawkers
Has anyone had any success in getting passport/lease/FM-3 notarized? Moneybookers is forcing me to do this before upping my limits anymore. The banker at Santander said I would have to have everything translated to Spanish?
I'm just trying to find the most efficient way to do this and if there's anyone other than http://www.notariapublica1rosarito.com/ in Rosarito who is available to do it. Post here or feel free to PM.. Thank you!
I just got this completed yesterday. The notary speaks English, but the person at the front desk only speaks Spanish and the dude who speaks English is so busy he rarely up front so be prepared to speak very good Spanish if you go.
I lived in Argentina for a year and I struggled my way through that whole process. Then again, we had trouble with the passport (see below) and that made it way harder. Basically, here's how it works.
They can notarize your FM3 and Mexican bank statement no problem as those are already in Spanish. Just realize they have to notarize the ENTIRE document so don't try to bring just the front page of your bank statement.
And this is where the problem with passports come in. They can't notarize just the front page of the passport by law, they have to notarize the ENTIRE thing including the instructions pages and the visa pages. AND they can't notarize anything in English, so you have to get EVERY PAGE translated first.
Obviously, I wasn't paying for all of that, so after maybe an hour of arguing and going back and forth with different people and people's fathers they finally agree to do just the front page of my passport for me, but I still had to get that page translated (even though it was already in English/French/Spanish wtf).
So finally it was $25 for translation (at a separate place nearby) and $45 for the three documents to be notarized and I had to go back the next day to pick them up. And what they did was illegal, I think.
Still haven't sent the documents into to Moneybookers, but this **** better work.