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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Includes 6,226 shares resulting from vesting of two grants of restricted share rights but whose delivery has been deferred to July 1, 2009 and 2010, respectively.  These shares will be subject to withholding for income taxes on those dates.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Reflects share equivalents of units held in Wells Fargo Stock Fund and ESOP Fund of 401(k) Plan as of April 30, 2009, as if investable cash equivalents held by Plan were fully invested in Wells Fargo &amp; Company Common Stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Payable in a lump sum in 2025.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Conversion price is 1-for-1.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Payable in a lump sum upon retirement.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Avid Modjtabai, by Robert S. Singley, as Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2009-05-04</signatureDate>
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