Frequently Asked Questions

We will review your sign up form, and e-mail you back with the proper info to complete your registration. Please add our email address to your email providers address book to ensure proper delivery. We never send spam newsletters, or emails trying to sell you something. Only important notices and messages. The name will be ours: Northwest Registered Agent. We are an LLC in most States, but some States, we are an "Inc." We usually will get new sign-ups, the information within 1 hour.

Usually, you can email or fax it to us, and we will sign and email the signed form back to you with our correct legal agent name, address, and we will sign it. There are a few States that require original inked signatures. See our Registered Agent Signature page for more info.

We provide our name as your agent, and our physical office address for your documentation with the various State agencies. We act as your agent for service of process, and legal requirements of doing business in the State you wish to operate in. We do this under our own name, not someone else's. For more info see our Registered Agent Costs page.

If you're going to cancel service with us, that's ok. There are no fees if you cancel service with us, unless you don't want to take care of the filing to take our name off as your agent, or to cancel your registration with the State. We do ask that you send us verification that we are not listed as your agent anymore, or that you have dissolved your company, or cancelled your registration. It's that simple. If you're going to cancel, just show us that we're not still doing our job for you. For more information see our How do I cancel my Registered Agent service page.

You will receive an email from us asking if you are planning to renew with us, or cancel service. If you're going to renew with us, we'll just send you another invoice, and you can pay it. Usually people just send a check in for payment.

A registered agent is someone designated to accept service of process and official mail on your behalf. For more information see our What is a Registered Agent page.

The yearly fee is for 1 year of service from the time you hire us. If you hire us on Dec 1st, 2005, you will get a renewal invoice on Dec 1st, 2006. NOT Jan 1, 2006.

We do not charge mail forwarding fees for official mail, important notices, and service of process. We have a $15.00 per item excessive forwarding fee for people that abuse our addresses and start sending their personal mail to our registered office addresses. Usually we don't have much of a problem with this.

If you are looking for a mail forwarding service, we do offer this from our corporate headquarters in Idaho. We do not accept personal mail or personal business mail at our registered agent offices in all the States. Just official mail.

If you would like a mail forwarding plan from our Idaho headquarters, see our mail forwarding service.

No! That's our job!! Quite a few of our clients don't get more than a couple law suits a year, and most don't get any at all. We understand our role is to accept your service of process, so if you get sued every now and then, there will never be an extra forwarding fee. for more information see our Service of Process page.

You will be charged our $15.00 per item excessive forwarding charge. If you don't get sued that often, there's no charge.

You will get an email of the law suit or notification. If it's small enough, we can usually email the whole thing, or email you a link to our server where you can download the entire document.

Sometimes they come in weird or awkward to scan pages and formats. In this case, we'll email you the first few pages, so you can see what it is, who it's from, etc. and then send the entire document Priority Mail to you. Sometimes they are hundreds of double sided pages, and just won't scan very well.

We sure can. If you've just hired us for the registered agent service, the answer is no.

If you'd like to send your entire packet to us for us to look over for errors, we'll gladly do this, and forward it onto the State, but that's a different story.

If you'd like to hire us to prepare the entire filing for you, we charge $100.00 plus State filing fees.

If you have the filing all done, and you'd like us to "Walk-in" the filing for expedited service, we charge $75.00 plus the State fees. You just have to get us the completed filing, and payment made out to the State agency, and we'll walk it in (in DC, we charge $150.00 to walk the filing in).

Our registered agent service is $125.00 a year, or we'll price match any other competitors price. No cancellation fees, no hidden fees, no forwarding fees, no middle of the year fees.

1 State: $125.00 a year. 1-4 Entities in the same State: $100.00 per year.
4-10 States or companies: $115.00 per year per State.
10-50 States or companies: $100.00 per year per State.

Please read our price matching policy.

A Statutory agent is the same thing as a registered agent. It's just that some States have different lingo and terminology. States like Arizona and Ohio use the term Statutory agent.

A resident agent is the same thing as a registered agent. States like Michigan and Maryland use this term. It's the same thing and same service.