District Registered Agent Services, Inc.

F.A.Q.

Business owners rightly choose to protect their personal assets by forming entities, such as limited liability companies, partnerships and corporations. Upon forming a business entity, or commencing a Washington, D.C. presence by registering to conduct business in the District of Columbia, companies must identify a registered office and agent to receive, for example, important mail sent to them by the government, as well as parties to legal proceedings. It is necessary that the registered agent be located at a physical address within the District, as a post office box is not acceptable.

In addition, other entities and individuals – such as estates or private security agencies – must designate agents in the District of Columbia for various reasons. District Registered Agent Services acts as a D.C Agent in those circumstances as well. 

The registered agent will accept service of process on your company's behalf and will forward correspondence from the District of Columbia Government concerning the filing of reports and filing fees, forms that must be filed and so forth. In order to conduct business within the District, an entity must designate and maintain a registered agent, and failure to do so may impede the company's ability to productively and efficiently conduct business and could result in fines and other sanctions.

With respect to estates and private security agencies, as well as other persons and entities, D.C. law may require an agent who is an individual or business located in Washington, D.C. for service or process and other correspondence.