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Certified Notary Signing Agent

Function: noun

No state government governs or participates in the certifying of signing agents. If a notary identifies themselves as a certified notary signing agent, it would be useful to ask who they were certified by, as standards for education and testing differ widely from company to company. The abbreviation for a Certified Notary Signing Agent is "CNSA". One issue for certified notary signing agents is that they often claim this designation without specifying who certified them. 123notary.com does not recognize certifications from other agencies, simply because their testing standards are substantially different. Some companies have open book notary signing agent tests, while others do not time their test, allowing a poorly prepared student to pass. The 123notary.com notary signing agent test is closed book and has a timed test taken over the internet. If a student cheats and uses a reference book or sheet, they will not have time to answer all of the questions in time and will fail for sure. Students who pass the 123notary.com notary signing agent certification test will get a certification icon next to their name on their local search results page.

Definition 1:
A certified notary signing agent is one who has been certified by a company that trains notaries.