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STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>CURRENT REPORT </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman"
SIZE="3"><B>Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) of the </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):&nbsp;October 30, 2009 </B></FONT></P> <P
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ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><B>Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc. </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P><center> <P
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>6830 Old Dominion Drive </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>McLean, Virginia 22101 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>(Address of principal
executive offices including zip code) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Registrant&#146;s telephone number, including area code: (434)&nbsp;973-5242 </B>
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SIZE="2">On October&nbsp;30, 2009, Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) issued a press release (the &#147;Press Release&#148;) in connection with the pricing of its public offering of 4,166,666 shares of its common
stock at $6.00 per share. A copy of the Press Release is attached hereto as Exhibit&nbsp;99.1 and is incorporated into this Item&nbsp;7.01 by this reference. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The information contained in this Item&nbsp;7.01, including the related information set forth in the Press Release attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein, is being &#147;furnished&#148; and
shall not be deemed &#147;filed&#148; for the purposes of Section&nbsp;18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended or otherwise. The information in this Item&nbsp;7.01 shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Press Release dated October 30, 2009.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;W<SMALL>ILLIAM</SMALL> H.
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ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc. Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">MCLEAN, VA, Oct. 30, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)&#151;Southern National Bancorp of Virginia, Inc. (the &#147;Company&#148;) (Nasdaq: SONA), the holding company for Sonabank, announced today that it has priced
an underwritten public offering of 4,166,666 shares of its common stock at $6.00 per share. The net proceeds of the offering after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses are expected to be approximately
$23.4&nbsp;million. FIG Partners, LLC is acting as the sole manager for the offering. The underwriter will have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 624,999 shares of common stock from the Company at the offering price to cover
over-allotments, if any. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company expects to close the sale of the shares of its common stock on or about November&nbsp;4, 2009, subject
to customary closing conditions. The Company expects to use the proceeds from the offering to provide capital to Sonabank to support its anticipated organic growth, to support potential future acquisitions of branches or whole banks, including the
possible acquisitions of failed financial institutions in FDIC assisted transactions, and for other general corporate purposes. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A
registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and has been declared effective. The registration statement on Form S-1 may be accessed through the SEC&#146;s website at www.sec.gov.
Alternatively, copies of the prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained from FIG Partners, LLC, Capital Markets Department, Attention Greg Gersack, 1175 Peachtree Street NE, 100 Colony Square, Suite 2250 Atlanta, GA 30361 or by telephone
at 404-601-7241. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This announcement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall
there be any offer or sale of any securities, in any state or jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation, or sale of securities would be unlawful. Any offers, solicitations of offers to buy, or sales of securities will only be made pursuant to
the registration statement filed with the SEC, including the related prospectus. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company, with total assets of $433 million as of
June&nbsp;30, 2009, is headquartered in McLean, Virginia and is the holding company for Sonabank. Sonabank is a Virginia-chartered bank that operates 9 banking offices in McLean, Fairfax, Reston, Leesburg (2), Warrenton (2), Charlottesville and
Clifton Forge, Virginia. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Forward-Looking Statements </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Certain statements contained in this press release may be deemed to be forward-looking statements under federal securities laws, and the Company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to
the safe harbor created thereby. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the closing of the public offering and the anticipated use of proceeds of the offering. The Company cautions that these statements
are qualified by important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected by the forward-looking statements contained herein. Such factors include (a)&nbsp;changes in market
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conditions or in prices of the Company&#146;s common stock; (b)&nbsp;changes in the market for the Company&#146;s products and services; and (c)&nbsp;other risks as detailed in the prospectus
referred to above and in the Company&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June&nbsp;30, 2009, and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. </FONT></P> <P
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