Chopping a Company Seal on documents used in Vietnam

In order to show to the Vietnam Government that documents are official original company documents.  You must use a corporate seal.   The seal must be used over the top of all signatures.

In Vietnam they use the awesome term "chop" to describe the process of you putting the seal in place.

The seal must be chopped across your signature

As I was preparing a packet of papers to go to vietnam I ran into an issue with how to 'chop the seal' on documents that had multiple pages.  While the first descriptions I received from my Vietnam Attorney made me think I needed to sign (or initial) each page and then chop the seal over that initial.

However after doing this they returned messages describing that was not what they were looking for.

 In Vietnam, the seal on the multiple page documents used to chop on signature first and then stamp on adjoining edges of pages. 

What this description leaves a bit ambiguous is whether this method requires TWO stamps

• Signature
• Adjoining edges of pages

or whether these can both be done in a single 'chop'

So the method I will be using before sending the papers the long way to Vietnam by post is:   A Single Chop

To make a single 'chop' of the seal on a multiple page document.  The chop will be across the signature and (assuming the signature is on the last page) fanning all  previous pages over the top of the signature so that the seal also includes the edges of the previous page.

This method of stamping the edges of the paper is something that I saw on the 'legalized' papers that came back from the Vietnam embassy and it really does  help to show how exactly the papers line up.  However if you were to take the staple out,  and restaple then you would end up with the edges being misaligned,  which is a good reason NOT to take apart the staples after you have 'chopped a seal'


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08/20/2015 : Update

I have changed my mind,  after reviewing a document that I had legalized by the Vietnam Consulate,  I think that I recognize that they are looking for two separate seals.

• One on the signature,  and
• one across the fanned edges of the entire set.

You will notice the small brad in the top left of the document.  This brad holds the papers in an exact location and as the papers turn it holds them in an exact spot,  which is different from a staple.  Perhaps this is to help the papers be somewhat 'tamper proof'.  if it is I can only hope that the less accurate staple is an acceptable enough method of keeping the papers aligned for me.

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Update:

Now I am probably getting to anal about it,  but there is likely a better way to do this.
The first round,  I ran the seal from the side which makes the name of the company always pressing through the highest number of pages.  Which doesn't show up as well.

So,   I am going to redo the 25 or so documents with the seal from the bottom and the company name spanning all pages so that it will at least show up on the single page impression