New Mexico Registered Agent
When you choose Northwest as your New Mexico Registered Agent, you get instant service, Privacy by Default®, and a business address. And if you want more, you can get a domain name, website, email, and phone number for free.
Want to learn more about what a registered agent does in New Mexico? We'll explain the New Mexico Secretary of State’s requirements, what your registered agent should do for you, and how to change your registered agent in New Mexico.
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$125 a Year Every Year
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 & Phone Number
What Is a Registered Agent?
In New Mexico, registered agents are either a person or company that you designate to receive legal mail (like service of process) on behalf of your business. Registered agents exist to provide an official and reliable way to contact your business.
If your business is ever served with a lawsuit, the 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 New Mexico Statute 53-11-11, registered agents are legally required in New Mexico. 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 NM Registered Agent?
Changing your registered agent is a straightforward process:
- You’ll file a change of agent form with the New Mexico 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.
It’s a simple change, but for more info, see our guide on how to change your registered agent in New Mexico.
Why Northwest Is the Best Registered Agent in New Mexico
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.
These features are just the start when you hire Northwest. For instance, we provide New Mexico Biennial Report Service for state compliance assistance, New Mexico DBA filings, trademark services, and many other ways to help maximize your business.
How to Order 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 up front.
For new businesses, once your business registration filing with the New Mexico Secretary of State is complete, we’ll become your registered agent.
About a year later, we’ll send an invoice for another year of registered agent service. 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 go-to resource for you, not just for Registered Agent Service or paying a bill but for keeping up with corporate paperwork formalities.
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New Mexico Registered Agent FAQs
Sure, you can be the registered agent for your own company in New Mexico. But while serving as your own registered agent doesn’t cost anything, the requirements still lead most business owners to hire a registered agent service instead.
Why? For one thing, a New Mexico registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record where anyone can find them. For another, a registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process at a set address during normal business hours five days a week, which limits other activities that must be done outside of that location.
There are many reasons why you might want a professional registered agent for your business:
- Availability: Some New Mexico business owners hire registered agent services because they don’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.
- Disclosure: Using an employee or family member as your registered agent could be a complication, as you may want to keep intimate details about your business from them, especially regarding lawsuits.
- Accountability: Once a process server hands your registered agent a document, you are considered to have received it, regardless of whether or not your agent actually gets it to you in time. You could miss a court deadline before realizing it. A professional registered agent provides accountability to ensure your documents reach you promptly.
- Responsibility: To avoid the added burden of tracking mail and notices from the New Mexico Secretary of State, hiring a registered agent lets them track that important paperwork for you. Having an online account to help maintain your business is often worth the nominal registered agent fee.
Lastly, if your business is web-based or doesn’t have a physical presence within New Mexico, it still needs a registered agent located inside state lines.
If you never get sued, congratulations! But don’t think of registered agent service fees as wasted money. Your registered agent should also keep you updated on any business reports owed to the state.
And if you hire Northwest Registered Agent, we’ll provide you with any form you could file in New Mexico, along with helpful tips for filing them and paying the state with no markup, as well as amazing customer service.
If you end up operating in multiple states with us, you’ll be able to easily see your annual report dates in every state in your account.
Northwest Registered Agent doesn’t charge more for high-volume clients. If you know you’re going to get served hundreds of times a year, we should create a custom price for you that makes sense to both parties. Our typical clients get fewer than 15 lawsuits a year and never pay additional fees.
We accept and scan all of our New Mexico clients’ documents on-site at our registered office in Albuquerque.
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 to keep your private address off public records.
We don’t want all of your business mail. It’s not what we do, and it wouldn’t serve you well any way. You wouldn’t have a unique address or suite number, and any mail we receive on your behalf would come to Northwest Registered Agent care of you.
However, we understand that businesses and clients sometimes reach out to you through your registered agent. Through us. That’s why we give you five free scans of regular business mail a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per-document rate of $15.
You should hire us first and then form your New Mexico LLC or corporation. The New Mexico Secretary of State rejects business registrations that don’t list a registered agent. You’ll find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you place an order with us.
Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified of a lawsuit.
Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your registered agent signs for, you’ve been legally notified once the agent accepts them. 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 a New Mexico business name search.
- Type in the name of the company you’re searching for.
- In the results, you’ll find the registered agent’s name and registered office street address.
If you want to legally notify a business through their registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.
In New Mexico, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit two copies of a written notice of resignation of registered agent and a Document Delivery Instruction Form to the New Mexico Secretary of State. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in New Mexico.