Help with international distribution

[Guest adoehring]

We have a former employee who is currently residing in Italy and has requested commencement of his retirement funds. Normally, we request that the signature be notarized. Does anyone know if Italy has an equivalent to notarization that we could use to prove that the participant is the one who signed his forms?

Thanks for ANY help.

[GBurns]

Aside from the US Embassy, there are a number of Consular offices. All usually have a notary or will use an approved local Justice of the Peace. Also the Big 5 accounting firms and some of the big brokerage houses have offices in many of the Italian cities. There are also US banks with international offices. Credit Suisse will also provide the service.