Now that I think about it more, I wonder why they'd want a letter from you to be notarized. Maybe what they want is a letter from someone else who knows why you were unemployed? Then it would make sense because they'd want to know that you didn't just fake a signature.
It is a Homeland Security thing. They want to be sure you weren't somewhere else, at Terrorists Training.
It is a Homeland Security thing. They want to be sure you weren't somewhere else, at Terrorists Training.