E-Signature tab

The E-Signature tab is where you collect a client’s signature on the forms you’ve already filled. Instead of printing, signing, scanning, and re-uploading, you send the finished PDFs out for electronic signature. The client reviews the exact form they’re signing, draws their signature once, and Fola stamps it into every signature field across every form in the request.

How it works

1. Pick the forms. Select one or more of this client’s completed form PDFs. They have to be finalized drafts — Fola signs the real PDF, not a watermarked preview.
2. Send the request. Fola generates a one-time signing link and either copies it to your clipboard or emails it to the client through your firm’s signature-request template.
3. The client signs once. They open the link, page through the exact PDF they’re about to sign, and draw their signature on a single canvas (mouse, trackpad, or touchscreen).
4. Fola stamps every field. Behind the scenes Fola reads each PDF’s own signature widgets and drops the drawn signature into every one of them — across all the forms in the request at the same time. The client never has to sign form-by-form.

One signature, many forms

A marriage-based AOS packet can carry the applicant’s signature on the I-130A, I-485, I-765, and I-131. Bundle them into one request and the client draws their signature a single time — Fola fans it out to all four.

Reading the PDF’s own signature fields

Fola doesn’t guess where a signature goes. It reads the signature widgets that are already defined on the official form, so the signature lands exactly where USCIS expects it — on the right line, on the right page, sized to the field. If a form has a date field paired with the signature, Fola fills the signing date too.

Multi-party signing

Some forms need more than one signer. An I-864 Affidavit of Support is signed by the sponsor, not the applicant; a translator certificate is signed by the translator. For these, add each party to the request:

• Each signer gets their own one-time link.
• Each signs only the fields assigned to their role — the sponsor signs the sponsor block, the applicant signs the applicant block.
• The request isn’t complete until every party has signed.

You can watch the status of each party from this tab — who’s signed, who’s still outstanding — and resend an individual link without disturbing the others.

The tamper-evident audit footer

Every signed form carries a footer stamped onto the document itself:

• The signer’s full legal name
• The timestamp of the signature
• The IP address of the signing device

This is the audit trail you’d hand to a court or bar association if a signature is ever challenged. Because it’s stamped into the PDF, it travels with the document — anyone who opens the file later can see exactly who signed it and when.

Where the signed copies land

When a request completes, Fola saves the results to the Documents vault:

• Each form lands as its own signed copy — one signed PDF per form, so you can file each individually.
• A merged print copy is also produced — the whole signed packet stacked into a single PDF, ready for mail filing.

Sign finalized forms only

Send for signature only after the form is final. If you edit a form after it’s been signed, the signature no longer matches the document — you’ll need to re-send a fresh request on the corrected PDF.

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