Part 4, Section 2
Immigration Documents

Some immigration documents may be notarized, but there are very strict limitations and laws that must be adhered to.  If you are bonded as an immigration consultant as well as a notary, you may enter information on immigration forms for your clients.
Business and Professions Code §22441

You may charge up to a limit of $10 for each set of forms (even if no notarial act is required).  If you are an attorney as well as a notary, and you are performing professional services for your client as an attorney, then the $10 limit does not apply.  Government Code § 8223

If you are notarizing forms for the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), the signer may present, and you may accept an identification card issued by the USCIS as positive identification.

There are also very strict limitations on how you can advertise your services.  You may not advertise yourself as a “notario publico”, nor may you use the term “notario publico” when referring to your position as a notary public at any time, because in some countries that position may hold far more authority than a California notary public does. 
Government Code § 8219.5 and Business and Professions Code §22442.3

Also, if you are a non-attorney notary and you plan to advertise your notarial services for immigration documents in any language other than English, you must state in your advertising that you are not an attorney and you cannot give legal advice, and you must disclose the fees a notary may charge. 

If you hold yourself out as an immigration consultant, expert, specialist, counselor, etc., you may NOT also advertise yourself as a notary.  The law is very strict on this. 
Government Code § 8223

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