Puerto Rico Registered Agent
When you choose Northwest as your Registered Agent in Puerto Rico, you get instant service, Privacy by Default®, a business address, and free mail forwarding. 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 Puerto Rico? We'll explain the Puerto Rico Department of State's Division of Corporations' requirements, what your registered agent should do for you, and how to change your registered agent in Puerto Rico.
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- $125 a Year
- Business Address & Mail Scanning
- Instant Domain, Website, Email & Phone Line
- Automatic Brand Protection
- Privacy By Default®
What Is A Registered Agent in Puerto Rico?
A Puerto Rico registered agent is a person or company designated to receive official government notices and legal documents on behalf of your business, including service of process.
Under the Puerto Rico General Corporations Act (Chapter 223, Section 3542), every business must maintain a registered agent with a physical street address in Puerto Rico who is available during normal business hours.
This ensures your business can always be properly notified if it is sued or receives compliance correspondence because delivery to your registered agent is considered legal notice to your company.
A reliable registered agent does more than meet the legal requirement. They promptly forward important documents, help you stay compliant, protect your privacy by keeping your personal address off public records, and ensure you never miss critical legal deadlines.
Why Northwest Is the Best Registered Agent in Puerto Rico
Our Puerto Rico 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 documents to keep your personal off public record. And, unlike those other guys, we never sell your data.
- Corporate Guides®: Have questions? Our Corporate Guides® have answers. Real people, not robots. Smart, experienced, and here to help with whatever you throw at them.
- Brand Protection: Keep an eye on your business name, domains, and trademarks, with built-in Brand Protection. We’ll alert you to potential conflicts early, and give you simple tools to build and manage your brand all in one place, totally free.
Want more? Of course you do. Northwest hooks you up with a full Business Identity, automatically. That means a domain that aligns with your business name, a website we host and secure, a legit business email, and a separate phone line. You look like a pro, your personal info stays yours, and our price never changes.
Registered Agent Legal Requirements in Puerto Rico
According to Puerto Rico’s General Corporations Act (Chapter 223 Section 3542), the requirements for a registered agent in Puerto Rico are as follows:
- Have to be residents or judicial persons (companies) that provide registered agent services.
- Have a registered office address that is a physical address located within the state of Puerto Rico.
- Accept legal documents during regular working hours.
How Do I Change a Registered Agent in Puerto Rico?
There are two ways to change your registered agent in Puerto Rico:
- Hire us and we’ll complete the change of agent form for you for free.
- Do it yourself and file a Certificate of Change of Registered Agent with the Puerto Rico Department of State’s Division of Corporations.
How to Order Puerto Rico Registered Agent Service
You sign up online, clicking on one of the buttons or links that says Hire Us.
We collect the first year of the registered agent service fee up front.
For new businesses, we’ll become your Puerto Rico registered agent once your business registration filing is complete
About a year later, we’ll send you an invoice for another year of Registered Agent Service for your Puerto Rican business. If you want to keep using us, great! If you don’t, you can easily cancel.
With offices in every state, we make it easy to add registered agent services anywhere in the country. 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 Puerto Rico corporate compliance.
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Puerto Rico Registered Agent FAQs
When you register your business in Puerto Rico, you need to appoint a registered agent. Registered agents in Puerto Rico provide the general public and the Puerto Rican government a reliable way to send important mail or legal notices to your business in PR. When you hire Northwest, you’ll not only receive the best registered agent service in Puerto Rico, but you’ll also be given an online account to manage all of your business’s state registrations, as we provide service in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
Yes, you can be your own registered agent in Puerto Rico. 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 in Puerto Rico will cost you $0 upfront, a 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 five 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 a unique address or suite number. 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 do your business registration filing because you can’t form an LLC or corporation in Puerto Rico without listing a registered agent that can operate in this jurisdiction. You can find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing in your account instantly after you place an order.
In Puerto Rico, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Certificate of Resignation of Resident Agent online to the Puerto Rico Department of State. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Puerto Rico.
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