Rhode Island Registered Agent

The cost of a registered agent in Rhode Island depends on the service you use or if you decide to do it yourself. If you do it yourself, it’s absolutely free except you risk your privacy and private information. At Northwest, our Rhode Island Registered Agent Service only costs $125 and has always cost that. No hidden or surprise fees.

Absolutely! When we are your registered agent, we send you a reminder and provide the forms and instructions for every state that you have registered agent service in.

Yes! If you would like to keep your own address off of the public record, we can help! We’re the only national registered agent that allows our clients to list our registered office address for every address on your corporate filings.

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 a unique address or suite number. Any mail we receive on your behalf would come 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 five FREE scans of regular business mail a year. If we get additional mail for you and you decide to view it, it costs $15. If you want that additional mail shipped to you, you’ll need to pay shipping and handling.

Hire us first. Rhode Island will reject your business registration filing if you don’t have a registered agent. You can find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you hire us.

This is how it works:

1. A process server, county sheriff, or third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents (service of process). We sign for those documents.
2. The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.

Once your Rhode Island registered agent signs on your business’s behalf, you’ve been notified. So even if your registered agent never forwards those documents to you, technically, you had notice. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly.

Serving a registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. If you hire Northwest, long before the server submits their affidavit to the court, you will have received your documents because we scan them to your account within minutes of signing for the documents.

To find a company’s registered agent, you can do a Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

In Rhode Island, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Statement of Resignation of Registered Agent to the Rhode Island Secretary of State, Division of Business Services. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Rhode Island.