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.
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Northwest is the choice of professionals for registered agent service.
- Same-Day Scans, Instant Notifications
- Privacy by Default®
- Business Address & Free Mail Forwarding
- Instant Domain, Website, Email & Business Phone
What Is a Mississippi Registered Agent?
A Mississippi registered agent is a person or company that you choose to receive legal mail (like service of process) for your business. Registered agents give the state and public an official and reliable way to contact your business.
If your business gets served with a lawsuit, a process server will deliver the paperwork directly to your registered agent. At that point, your business is legally considered served. The registered agent should then forward you your mail, quickly and securely.
According to Mississippi Code 750-35-5, registered agents are legally required in Mississippi. At a minimum, your registered agent must list a physical address on the public record and be present at that address during business hours. But ideally, your registered agent should do more.
How Do I Change My Registered Agent in Mississippi?
Changing your registered agent is a straightforward process:
- You’ll file a Change of Agent form with the Mississippi Secretary of State.
- If you place an order with us, the form will be available instantly. We’ll even pay and file the change of agent filing for you.
- theIt’s a simple change, but for more info, see our guide on how to change your registered agent in Mississippi..
Why Northwest Is the Best Registered Agent in Mississippi
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.
As the nation’s top choice for starting businesses easily and affordably, we also offer in-house services to build your business’s online identity:
- Domain name: Pick a domain name for your business with your choice of extension (like .com and .net).
- Website: We provide a pre-built business website for you to customize using an open source platform, so it’s yours to own whether hosted by us or anyone you choose.
- Business email address: Create up to 10 business email addresses. For branding ease, they’ll all end in your chosen domain name.
- Phone number: Keep your personal line private by establishing a business phone number for client communications.
- Web hosting: Our web hosting service includes SSL security at no additional cost.
How to Order Mississippi Registered Agent Service
You sign up online, clicking on one of the buttons or links that says HIRE US.
We collect the first year’s fee for registered agent service in Mississippi up front.
For new businesses, once your business registration filing with the Mississippi Secretary of State is complete, we’ll become your registered agent in Mississippi.
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.
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.
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. Worse, just having a process server hand them a document is proof that you got it, whether they actually get it to you in a timely manner or not. You could miss a court deadline before realizing it.
- 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.
Yes, you can be your own registered agent in Mississippi. However, because of the requirements, most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead. Why? While being your own registered agent won’t cost you anything, a registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record in Mississippi. Additionally, a registered agent must be available to accept service of process during normal business hours, five days a week.
We accept and scan all of our Mississippi clients’ documents on site at our registered office in Ridgeland, MS.
Definitely! We’re the only national registered agent service that allows our clients to list our address for everything when you’re doing a filing. This helps keep your private addresses off of public records.
If you don’t have a lease at our address, the postal service might not deliver your mail.
As your registered agent in Mississippi, things come directly to us—Northwest Registered Agent Service Inc.—care of you.
If we do receive any mail for you, though, we’ll scan it for you in real time, in minutes.
Definitely! If you own an LLC or corporation in Mississippi, you’ll need to file your Mississippi Annual Report each year. As part of our Registered Agent Service, we’ll not only send you a reminder, but we’ll give you the form you need to file and instructions on how to file it.
You should hire us first and then do your business registration filing, because you can’t form an LLC or corporation without a registered agent in Mississippi. Also, we provide all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you place an order.
Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your Mississippi-based registered agent signs for, once they accept the documents, you’ve been notified. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly. This is how it works:
- A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents (service of process), which we sign for.
- The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.
Note: If you’ve hired Northwest, you’ve received your documents long before the process server hands in their affidavit to the court—because we scanned them to your online account within minutes of having been served.
- You can do an Mississippi business name search on the state’s website
- Type in the company name you are trying to look up.
- Find the MS registered agent name and registered office street address.
Note: If you want to legally notify someone through their registered agent, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.
In Mississippi, to resign as a registered agent, you need to complete and submit a Statement of Resignation to the Mississippi Secretary of State. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Mississippi.