---
kind: "unit"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations"
key: "chI/subchJ/part92"
level: "part"
label: "Part 92"
heading: "Notarial and Related Services"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/chI-subchJ-part92"
sections_count: 89
---

# Part 92 — Notarial and Related Services

Title 22 C.F.R. — Foreign Relations › Chapter I — Department of State › Subchapter J — Legal and Related Services

## Sections

- [§92.1. Definitions.](/cfr/22/92.1.md)
- [§92.2. Description of overseas notarial functions of the Department of State, record of acts.](/cfr/22/92.2.md)
- [§92.3. Consular districts.](/cfr/22/92.3.md)
- [§92.4. Authority of notarizing officers of the Department of State under Federal law.](/cfr/22/92.4.md)
- [§92.5. Acceptability of notarial acts under State or territorial law.](/cfr/22/92.5.md)
- [§92.6. Authority of notarizing officers under international practice.](/cfr/22/92.6.md)
- [§92.7. Responsibility of notarizing officers of the Department of State.](/cfr/22/92.7.md)
- [§92.8. Compliance with request for notarial services.](/cfr/22/92.8.md)
- [§92.9. Refusals of requests for notarial services.](/cfr/22/92.9.md)
- [§92.10. Specific waiver in notarial certificate.](/cfr/22/92.10.md)
- [§92.11. Preparation of legal documents.](/cfr/22/92.11.md)
- [§92.12. Necessity for certification of notarial acts.](/cfr/22/92.12.md)
- [§92.13. Form of notarial certificate.](/cfr/22/92.13.md)
- [§92.14. Venue on notarial certificates.](/cfr/22/92.14.md)
- [§92.15. Signing notarial certificate.](/cfr/22/92.15.md)
- [§92.16. Sealing the notarial certificate.](/cfr/22/92.16.md)
- [§92.17. Fastening of pages.](/cfr/22/92.17.md)
- [§92.18. Oaths and affirmations defined.](/cfr/22/92.18.md)
- [§92.19. Administering an oath.](/cfr/22/92.19.md)
- [§92.20. Administering an affirmation.](/cfr/22/92.20.md)
- [§92.21. Notarial certificate to oath or affirmation.](/cfr/22/92.21.md)
- [§92.22. “Affidavit” defined.](/cfr/22/92.22.md)
- [§92.23. Taking an affidavit.](/cfr/22/92.23.md)
- [§92.24. Usual form of affidavit.](/cfr/22/92.24.md)
- [§92.25. Title of affidavit.](/cfr/22/92.25.md)
- [§92.26. Venue on affidavit.](/cfr/22/92.26.md)
- [§92.27. Affiant's allegations in affidavit.](/cfr/22/92.27.md)
- [§92.28. Signature of affiant on affidavit.](/cfr/22/92.28.md)
- [§92.29. Oath or affirmation to affidavit.](/cfr/22/92.29.md)
- [§92.30. Acknowledgment defined.](/cfr/22/92.30.md)
- [§92.31. Taking an acknowledgment.](/cfr/22/92.31.md)
- [§92.32. Notarial certificate to acknowledgment.](/cfr/22/92.32.md)
- [§92.33. Execution of certificate of acknowledgment.](/cfr/22/92.33.md)
- [§92.34. Fastening certificate to instrument.](/cfr/22/92.34.md)
- [§92.35. Errors in certificate of acknowledgment.](/cfr/22/92.35.md)
- [§92.36. Authentication defined.](/cfr/22/92.36.md)
- [§92.37. Authentication procedure.](/cfr/22/92.37.md)
- [§92.38. Forms of certificate of authentication.](/cfr/22/92.38.md)
- [§92.39. Authenticating foreign public documents (Federal procedures).](/cfr/22/92.39.md)
- [§92.40. Authentication of foreign extradition papers.](/cfr/22/92.40.md)
- [§92.41. Limitations to be observed in authenticating documents.](/cfr/22/92.41.md)
- [§92.42. Certification of copies of foreign records relating to land titles.](/cfr/22/92.42.md)
- [§92.43. Fees for notarial services and authentications.](/cfr/22/92.43.md)
- [§92.49. “Deposition” defined.](/cfr/22/92.49.md)
- [§92.50. Use of depositions in court actions.](/cfr/22/92.50.md)
- [§92.51. Methods of taking depositions in foreign countries.](/cfr/22/92.51.md)
- [§92.52. “Deposition on notice” defined.](/cfr/22/92.52.md)
- [§92.53. “Commission to take depositions” defined.](/cfr/22/92.53.md)
- [§92.54. “Letters rogatory” defined.](/cfr/22/92.54.md)
- [§92.55. Consular authority and responsibility for taking depositions.](/cfr/22/92.55.md)
- [§92.56. Summary of procedure for taking depositions.](/cfr/22/92.56.md)
- [§92.57. Oral examination of witnesses.](/cfr/22/92.57.md)
- [§92.58. Examination on basis of written interrogatories.](/cfr/22/92.58.md)
- [§92.59. Recording of objections.](/cfr/22/92.59.md)
- [§92.60. Examination procedures.](/cfr/22/92.60.md)
- [§92.61. Transcription and signing of record of examination.](/cfr/22/92.61.md)
- [§92.62. Captioning and certifying depositions.](/cfr/22/92.62.md)
- [§92.63. Arrangement of papers.](/cfr/22/92.63.md)
- [§92.64. Filing depositions.](/cfr/22/92.64.md)
- [§92.65. Depositions to prove genuineness of foreign documents.](/cfr/22/92.65.md)
- [§92.66. Depositions taken before foreign officials or other persons in a foreign country.](/cfr/22/92.66.md)
- [§92.67. Taking of depositions in United States pursuant to foreign letters rogatory.](/cfr/22/92.67.md)
- [§92.68. Foreign Service fees and incidental costs in the taking of evidence.](/cfr/22/92.68.md)
- [§92.69. Charges payable to foreign officials, witnesses, foreign counsel, and interpreters.](/cfr/22/92.69.md)
- [§92.70. Special fees for depositions in connection with foreign documents.](/cfr/22/92.70.md)
- [§92.71. Fees for letters rogatory executed by officials in the United States.](/cfr/22/92.71.md)
- [§92.72. Services in connection with patents and patent applications.](/cfr/22/92.72.md)
- [§92.73. Services in connection with trademark registrations.](/cfr/22/92.73.md)
- [§92.74. Services in connection with United States securities or interests therein.](/cfr/22/92.74.md)
- [§92.75. Services in connection with income tax returns.](/cfr/22/92.75.md)
- [§92.76. Copying documents.](/cfr/22/92.76.md)
- [§92.77. Recording documents.](/cfr/22/92.77.md)
- [§92.78. Translating documents.](/cfr/22/92.78.md)
- [§92.79. Procuring copies of foreign public documents.](/cfr/22/92.79.md)
- [§92.80. Obtaining American vital statistics records.](/cfr/22/92.80.md)
- [§92.81. Performance of legal services.](/cfr/22/92.81.md)
- [§92.82. Recommending attorneys or notaries.](/cfr/22/92.82.md)
- [§92.84. Legal process defined.](/cfr/22/92.84.md)
- [§92.85. Service of legal process usually prohibited.](/cfr/22/92.85.md)
- [§92.86. Consular responsibility for serving subpoenas.](/cfr/22/92.86.md)
- [§92.87. Consular responsibility for serving orders to show cause.](/cfr/22/92.87.md)
- [§92.88. Consular procedure.](/cfr/22/92.88.md)
- [§92.89. Fees for service of legal process.](/cfr/22/92.89.md)
- [§92.90. Delivering documents pertaining to the revocation of naturalization.](/cfr/22/92.90.md)
- [§92.91. Service of documents at request of Congressional committees.](/cfr/22/92.91.md)
- [§92.92. Service of legal process under provisions of State law.](/cfr/22/92.92.md)
- [§92.93. Notarial services or authentications connected with service of process by other persons.](/cfr/22/92.93.md)
- [§92.94. Replying to inquiries regarding service of process or other documents.](/cfr/22/92.94.md)
- [§92.95. Transportation of witnesses to the United States.](/cfr/22/92.95.md)