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About Paperwork Hero

Paperwork shouldn’t eat your weekend

Renewing a passport, getting a document notarized or changing your name after marriage should take an afternoon, not a month of guesswork. We test the services that promise to help, tell you which ones are worth it, and show you when you can do it yourself for free.

What we do

We cover more than 60 paperwork tasks across travel and ID, notary and legal, life events, business and home. For each one, we compare every service that can handle it on the same Hero Score, list the free government route next to them, and keep processing times and fees up to date.

60+
paperwork tasks covered
40+
providers compared
Weekly
processing-time checks
$0
to use, always

Meet the team

A
Travel desk
Passports & travel editor
Covers passports, TSA PreCheck and REAL ID
B
Notary & legal desk
Notary & legal reviewer
Covers notarization, apostilles and wills
C
Business desk
Small business editor
Covers LLCs, EINs and annual filings

How we stay independent

We’re free to use because some providers pay us a commission when you sign up through our links. That never affects scores or rankings. Read our editorial guidelines and how we make money for the details.

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