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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Common Shares being withheld to pay tax liability.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Performance share units awarded pursuant to the Assured Guaranty Ltd. 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the &quot;Plan&quot;).  Using the highest 40-day average stock price during the performance period (7/1/2017 to 12/31/2018), 200.00% of the performance share units granted became vested.  The number of Common Shares delivered equals the number of performance share units granted multiplied by 200.00%.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Total includes performance units from tranches with different performance measures, performance periods and vesting dates.</footnote>
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    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Ling Chow, Attorney-in-fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2019-02-26</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
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