On August 9th, 2016, we announced updates to VA Form 26-6393 (Loan Analysis) and VA Form 26-8937 (Verification of VA benefits) that included language in the signature sections of “(Sign in ink)” and “(Complete in ink)”. We reached out to the VA and were informed that the change on the new versions of these documents meant that, yes, it did indicate that the affected sections must be wet signed in ink. Accordingly, we put out the aforementioned announcement. Subsequent to the posting of this announcement, we received clarification from the VA that the updated text on VA Form 26-6393 and VA Form 26-8937 DID NOT affect the documents’ ability to be signed electronically, as per VA Circular 26-13-13, and that we should disregard the previously received guidance.
Consequently, we will not be updating the eSign configuration of our VA Loan Analysis (Cx5533) and Verification of Benefit-Related Indebtedness (Cx3952) at this time. The “(Sign in ink)” and “(Complete in ink)” phrases recently added to the documents will be in effect on August 16 as announced previously, in order to match the updated model forms. We apologize for any confusion this caused.
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