Virginia Registered Agents

Virginia Registered Agent Services

Overview

Virginia is a fairly straightforward state to form your business in. For every corporation or LLC formed in Virginia, there must also be a registered agent. According to Virginia state law, every business entity formed and registered with the Corporation Commission must appoint a registered agent to accept service of process on behalf of the business entity. A Virginia registered agent also receives the business’s official notifications.

What Does a Virginia Registered Agent Do?

The primary duty of a Virginia registered agent is to maintain a physical location in Virginia (known as a registered office) where the agent can receive and accept service of process and official mail during all normal business hours. This is essentially the statutory requirement for a Virginia registered agent.

Registered Agents Inc. takes our responsibility as your Virginia registered agent seriously. No matter whether you’re hiring our Virginia registered agent services for your business or for your clients, each account will be handled with the same security and care.

Your Virginia registered agent account will include:

1. Reliability
   Through years of testing, experience and service, we’ve perfected our service of process and mail notification system. No Registered Agents Inc. client is ever left behind.
2. Data Security
   Each business that secures Registered Agents Inc. as their Virginia registered agent will receive an online account guarded by high-level encryption to ensure each user’s business account is secure.
3. Timely Notifications
   Within minutes of receiving any notification or service of process on a client’s behalf, Registered Agents Inc. will scan and upload the document to the clients account from our Virginia office. We do not use a forwarding hub, ensuring we don’t lose documents along the way.
4. Local Virginia Expertise
   Our staff is knowledgeable and experienced in working with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. We’ll get your business formation or registration done right, the first time.
5. Low Price and Quality Service
   For a premium Virginia registered agent service at a price most of our competitors won’t dare match, Registered Agents Inc. will always be the top choice.

Why it’s Important to Have a Virginia Registered Agent:

When someone needs to deliver a lawsuit, tax notification, or highly sensitive mail to your Virginia LLC or corporation, they contact your registered agent in Virginia. If your Virginia registered agent is incompetent or inefficient at delivering notifications to you, lawsuits and defaults could move against you through the court system without you ever knowing it. That’s why retaining the services of a highly qualified registered agent like Registered Agents Inc. is imperative.

Registered Agents Inc. has also made our service something more than the fulfillment of a statutory requirement—we can be an extension of your business.

For every Virginia client, we provide:

• Annual Report Reminders
• Less Paperwork
• All State Forms in One Place
• Dedicated Customer Service Representatives
• Quality Registered Agent Service in Every State

How to Change your Registered Agent in Virginia

If you’re switching registered agents to Registered Agents Inc., we will be happy to file the change of agent form for you. If you’d like to do it yourself, here are the steps:

1. Hire a New Virginia Registered Agent
   You should obtain your new Virginia Registered Agent first.
2. Complete the Virginia Registered Agent Change form 
   After choosing your new Virginia registered agent, you must submit the state’s online Registered Agent Change form—the good news is, it’s free.

Requirements for Virginia Registered Agents

To become a Virginia registered agent as an individual, you must be a resident of Virginia and either a principal of the company (for corporations, a director, and for LLCs, a member or manager) or a member of the Virginia State Bar. To be a registered agent as a business, your company must be registered to transact business in Virginia, either as a domestic or foreign entity. Either way, you must have a physical address (registered office) in Virginia, where you can accept and sign for service of process and official mail during normal business hours. That means P.O. boxes and virtual offices are not acceptable. You are required to physically be at an address Virginia, ready to accept notifications and service of process throughout the working day. If you meet these requirements, you could list your own name or business name as a registered agent. Your company, however, cannot be its own registered agent.