06. Why choose us
16 Reasons to use our service: A bundle of benefits
1. We are open on Mon to Fri Lunchtimes and Evenings – so we can slot into your schedule.
2. We travel to you – This is convenient and reduces hassle for you. There’s no traffic, no need to find parking, no boring waiting room. Instead, you can go about your normal life, and we slot into your schedule.
3. We have two decades (Estd. 2008) of experience, meaning will have likely seen your type of document before, and be familiar with its signing requirements.
4. We are established so long that we own the domain name “www.CommissionerForOaths.ie”. So, we are easy to find and contact. We have dedicated many hours to creating and fine-tuning our website based on positive customer feedback.
6. The best compliment in business is repeat business, we have many happy customers who have been kind enough to write positive reviews on our Google business page.
7. Our service has been mentioned positively in the local news media.
8. Printing/Copying: To ensure it works when it’s needed we have not 1, but 2, portable battery-powered printers/photocopiers. These are useful for when a customer needs a copy of a document, or has a form but does not have a working printer of their own.
9. Price certainty. We openly state our standard price on our website or we can give a personalised quote for complex jobs. There is certainly for the customer. Whereas some other service providers do not mention pricing on their websites, or may boast a low figure which is hard to achieve in reality.
10. We provide receipts – which is very useful for business customers. Other service providers often do not do this, which can leave you out of pocket if you later decide to claim back the amount paid in expenses from your employer.
11. Beware of getting your documents signed by well‑meaning amateurs. We are regularly asked to fix paperwork containing basic errors—missing stamps, incorrect jurats, or absent exhibit certificates. Such mistakes lead to rejection, and by the time we’re called in to redo the work, the matter is often urgent.
12. Our service is provided by an Irish-born native English speaker, with lifelong practical experience of Irish admin processes.
13. Personal service – You can speak with our principal – Mr David O’Sullivan Commissioner for Oaths – directly. You will not have to explain who you are to a Secretary.
14. We carry proof that we are a Commissioner for Oaths – You can inspect our credentials in the form of our Supreme Court Certificate of Appointment and Personal Passport. It is illegal for a person to describe themselves as a Commissioner for Oaths unless they have been appointed as such. At a High Court hearing in 2010 there was an example of some other person who had been signing documents but no evidence was presented to the Court that they were appointed as a Commissioner for Oaths for the Cork area.
15. We also have experience in relation to foreign documents; being appointed as a ‘Commissioner for Oaths’ for SK, Canada and ‘Commissioner of Deeds’ for NH, USA
16. Document Security
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- a) Correctly worded rubber stamps. This minimises the amount of handwriting on documents, creating a more professional appearance on your document.
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- b) Embossing – On most documents, we emboss every page that we sign with our seal. Our seal is engraved with our name and jurisdiction, and because we keep strict custody of the seal, this confirms that we personally handled every page.
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- c) Binding – In some circumstances when you have multiple pages which were signed, and which are all destined for the same receiver, we can permanently attach your documents with a solid brass eyelet, we would add a red red legal corner. Once set, eyelets are impossible to remove without that being obvious, meaning your bundle becomes 100% secure. This binding is requirement at certain consulates and embassies.
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- e) Sharpie Film Marker – Whenever we write on the back of photographs (usually for Citizenship / Naturalisation applications), to avoid smudges, we use a special quick-drying ‘Smear-Guard’ Sharpie marker
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- d) Indelible Ink – We use permanent ink which bonds to paper fibre, and is superior to regular ink in two significant ways:
- 1) it is tamper-proof due to its insolubility in water, alcohol, detergent, bleach and solvents;
- 2) it is waterproof, lightfast and acid-free, so signatures are less likely to fade over time.
- d) Indelible Ink – We use permanent ink which bonds to paper fibre, and is superior to regular ink in two significant ways:
