West Virginia Registered Agent

Yes, you can be your own registered agent in West Virginia. However, after considering the registered agent requirements most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead. Why? Well although being your own registered agent will cost you $0, a West Virginia registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record.  Additionally, the registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process during normal business hours 5 days a week.

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. You wouldn’t have unique address or suite number. Any mail we receive on your behalf would come to to Northwest Registered Agent, care of you.

But we understand that businesses and clients sometimes reach out to you through your registered agent. Through us. That’s why we give you 5 FREE scans of regular business mail a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.

Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your West Virginia 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 a West Virginia business name search on the state’s website
• Type in the company name you are trying to look up.
• Look at the WV registered agent name and registered office street address.

If you want to legally notify someone through their registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

In West Virginia, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Statement of Resignation of Registered Agent (with $15 for processing) to the West Virginia Secretary of State. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in West Virginia.