Nebraska Registered Agent

At minimum, your Nebraska registered agent accepts important legal documents on behalf of your business at a physical location in the state (known as a registered office). In other words, your registered agent’s address acts as the official place where any service of process and official mail for your Nebraska LLC, Nebraska corporation or Nebraska nonprofit will be sent.

However, the right registered agent service can do much more. At Northwest, we go above and beyond the minimum to ensure top speed, security, privacy and support.

Nebraska has the same registered agent requirements regardless of whether your business is a corporation, LLC, or non-profit. According to Nebraska state statute §21-113, registered agents must:

• Be a state resident or a person authorized to transact business in the state.
• Maintain a registered office (a physical address in Nebraska). No P.O. boxes.
• Accept legal documents (service of process) during normal business hours.

Note: In order to accept the appointment of service, a registered agent must either sign the appointing document or submit a written statement to the secretary of state acknowledging the appointment.

If you have not yet formed a Nebraska business, you can become your own Nebraska registered agent when you fill out the formation documents. There is space on the formation documents for the address and name of the business’ registered agent; put your information here. Once the documents are filed with the state, you are officially registered agent for your Nebraska business.

What if I already have a registered agent?

If you already have a registered agent for your business, then you will need to change your Nebraska registered agent by filing a Domestic Change of Registered Agent and/or Office form (there are different forms for LLCs, corporations, and non-profit corporations). On this form you must write in your current registered agent’s information as well as the new information it will change to—which will be your name and physical street address. There is a $15 filing fee for for-profit corporations and LLCs, and $10 for nonprofits.

What are the requirements for being your own registered agent in Nebraska?

If you plan to act as your own Nebraska registered agent, there are some important rules you must adhere to:

1. You must have a physical street address in Nebraska. A PO Box won’t do. The state wants to be assured that there is an actual address that you can be found at in case your business is served.
2. You must keep regular business hours. These business hours must be kept at your physical street address in Nebraska so that you can be reached at a normal time, consistently.
3. Your business cannot be its own registered agent. While you as an individual person can be the registered agent for your business, the business cannot act as its own agent. Another business can, however (such as a commercial registered agent company).

If you can stick to the above guidelines, then you can act as your own registered agent for your Nebraska LLC or Nebraska corporation. Just remember: once you have filed those documents with your name and address on them, they are searchable public knowledge. You must also be fine with process server knocking on your door.

There are two ways to change your registered agent in Nebraska.

1. Hire us and we’ll complete the change of agent form for you for free.
2. Do it yourself and file a Change of Registered Agent form with the Nebraska Secretary of State. For LLCs, the filing fee is $10 plus $5 per page, and there is no fee for corporations.

At Northwest, we do business the right way. We’re dedicated to getting you your docs fast, protecting your privacy and offering you support. Here’s how:

• Same-Day Scans, Instant Notifications: We accept and scan your docs at our local office the same day. We notify you instantly and reach out to you if your essential mail goes unread.
• Privacy by Default®: We automatically minimize the exposure of and access to your personal data. If we can put our address on a public doc instead of yours, we do. If we don’t have to list your personal info, we don’t. We have tough privacy policies to keep your data safe and private. And we never sell your data.
• Free Limited Mail Forwarding: Of course we’ll get you your state and legal mail. That’s our job. But what if we get some of your regular business mail? It happens a lot—clients and businesses trying to connect with you via your registered agent. We scan 5 documents per year for FREE. We can also scan additional mail at a per document rate of $15.
• Corporate Guides®: Have questions? We have answers. Our guides are business experts whose sole job is to provide phone and email support for all your toughest business questions.