Mississippi Registered Agent
When you start a corporation or LLC in Mississippi, state law requires you to appoint a registered agent to stay in good standing. You can do it yourself, or hire a professional Mississippi Registered Agent like Northwest to manage the bureaucratic compliance stuff. While we handle that, you can focus on the real work of running your business.
When you hire Northwest, your business gets a real Mississippi address for your legal mail—and we’ll forward those documents wherever you are. Want more? Northwest is the only registered agent that can provide your business services from domains to DBAs easily, and all in-house.
$125 Per Year
- Business Address & Mail Scanning
- Domain, Website, Email & Phone Line
- Automatic Brand Protection
- Privacy By Default®
What Is A Mississippi Registered Agent?
A Mississippi registered agent is the person or company you designate to receive legal documents (like service of process) and official state correspondence on behalf of your business. Registered agents provide the state and the public with an official, reliable way to contact your Mississippi LLC or corporation.
If your business is ever served with a lawsuit, the process server delivers the paperwork directly to your registered agent. Once those documents are delivered, your business is legally considered served, making it important to have a registered agent who will promptly and securely forward them to you.
You can serve as your own registered agent, appoint another individual, or hire a professional registered agent service. While the law establishes minimum requirements, the best registered agents do more than simply receive your legal mail—they help protect your privacy, keep you informed, and ensure your business stays compliant.
Legal Requirements For Mississippi Registered Agents
Physical Address
Maintain a registered office with a physical street address in Mississippi where legal documents and official notices can be delivered.
Business Hours
Be available at the registered office during normal business hours to accept service of process and other official correspondence.
Reliable Service
Accept legal documents and state notices on behalf of your business and promptly forward them to you so you can respond to important deadlines.
How Do I Change My Registered Agent?
Changing your registered agent is a straightforward process:
Option 1: Do It Yourself
File a Change of Registered Agent form with the Mississippi Secretary of State to update your registered agent information. If you’d like step-by-step instructions, check out our guide on how to change your registered agent in Mississippi.
Option 2: Hire Us
Skip the paperwork and let Northwest handle the filing for you. When you sign up for our Mississippi Registered Agent Service, we’ll prepare and file your change of registered agent form on your behalf, making the transition quick and easy.
Why Choose Northwest?
Our registered agent service includes the tools you need to keep your business running without a hitch. When you hire Northwest as your registered agent, you get:
- Same-Day scans: We scan your legal docs the same day we receive them and reach out if your essential mail goes unread.
- Privacy by Default®: We list our business address on public docs to keep your personal info safe. And unlike those other guys, we never sell your data.
- Corporate Guides®: Have questions? We have answers. Our guides are business experts whose sole job is to provide support for all your business questions.
- Identity Services. With Northwest, you get a free domain name, website, phone line, and email address so that you can start talking to potential customers on day one–without compromising your privacy.
- Brand Protection: Keep an eye on your business name, domains, and trademarks, with Brand Protection. We’ll alert you to potential conflicts early, and give you simple tools to build and manage your brand all in one place.
We don’t do hidden fees, either. So when you hire us to be your registered agent for a Mississippi corporation or LLC, the price you pay today is the price you’ll pay forever.
How Do I Order Registered Agent Service?
Step 1:
You sign up online, clicking on one of the buttons or links that says HIRE US.
Step 2:
We collect the first year’s fee for registered agent service in Mississippi up front.
Step 3:
For new businesses, once your business registration filing with the Mississippi Secretary of State is complete, we’ll become your registered agent in Mississippi.
Step 4:
About a year later, we’ll send an invoice for another year of registered agent service in Mississippi. If you want to keep using us, great; if you don’t, you can easily cancel.
Step 5:
It’s easy to add registered agent services in other states if your business expands. We have offices in every state. We don’t farm out work (or your info) to other companies—wherever you are, WE are your registered agent.
Step 6:
We make your account a real resource for you, not just for registered agent service or paying a bill, but for keeping up with corporate paperwork formalities like the Mississippi Annual Report.
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Mississippi Registered Agent FAQs
- Location: If your business is web-based or doesn’t have a physical presence within Mississippi, the business still needs a registered agent located inside state lines.
- Unusual hours: Some Mississippi business owners hire registered agent services because their business doesn’t keep regular business hours when service of process or official mail can be delivered.
- Privacy: Many business owners don’t want their home or business address listed on public record as a point of contact, so they hire a registered agent.
- Avoiding distractions: Listing an employee or family member as your registered agent could be a mistake, if you don’t want them knowing the intimate details of lawsuits your business might become entangled in.
- Less responsibility: If you don’t want the added responsibility of tracking mail and notices from the Mississippi Secretary of State, you can hire a registered agent to track the important paperwork for you. Having an online account to help maintain your business is often worth the nominal registered agent fee.
Note: Northwest can handle all of your registered agent needs, and then some.