Acceptable Forms of Identification:
1. Driver’s license or identification card issued by the North Carolina Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
2. U.S. passport issued by the U. S. Department of State.
3. Foreign passport if stamped by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS).
4. Driver’s license or non-driver's ID issued by another U.S. state or territory.
5. Driver's license officially issued in Mexico or Canada.
6. U.S. military ID.
7. An inmate identification card issued on or after 1/1/91, by North Carolina Department of Corrections or Federal Bureau of Prisons (but only to identify prisoners in custody).
8. A sworn, written statement from a sworn law enforcement officer explaining that an inmate's IDs were confiscated upon incarceration, and that the person named in the document is the person whose signature is to notarized.
9. An identification card issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The most common is the Permanent Resident ID.
Non-Acceptable Forms:
1. Birth Certificate
2. Social Security Card
3. Expired of Identification of any type
4. ID does not contain at least the individual's signature
5. ID with name that does not match the name on the document requiring notarization.