How to Change Your Nevada Registered Agent
$122 includes state filing & fees + a year of RA service
In Vegas, sometimes you’ve got to know when to fold. The same is true when it comes to changing your Nevada registered agent.
There are many reasons to switch agents. Maybe your agent is unreliable or too pricey. Maybe they’ve skipped town and left you hanging. Or, maybe you don’t want to serve as your own agent anymore.
To update your registered agent information with the state, you’ll need to file a Statement of Change of Registered Agent with the Nevada Secretary of State.
Or, hire us to be your Nevada registered agent and take care of the filing so you don’t have to deal with more paperwork.
Our Registered Agent Service
Sign up with us and you get instant Nevada Registered Agent Service + a commercial Las Vegas business address.
- Secure online portal, accessible on the go
- Free use of our Las Vegas business address
- Same-day scans & uploads for legal documents
- Immediate notification when you receive documents
- 3 free regular mail scans
- Free library of business documents & resources
- 90-day free trial of business website + phone services
- Enrollment in Compliance (Renewal) Service for your Annual Report (Annual List)
- Access to more business filings & support services
- Unparalleled customer service from NV filing experts
Why Change Your Nevada Registered Agent?
There are a variety of reasons you may need a new Nevada registered agent. However, once you decide to switch agents (or if your agent has resigned), you’ll need to act quickly, because not having a registered agent for your company is a violation of state law.
The common reasons include:
Your Agent Is Too Expensive
This is a common issue with some of the national registered agent services. These companies routinely charge over $100—and sometimes more—for a year of registered agent service.
Plus, many companies charge extra for operating agreements or corporate bylaws templates (we include those for free) and then raise the price on you after the first year. It’s better to go with a local service that provides the same service for less.
Your Agent Is Unreliable
If your registered agent isn’t able to get legal documents and notices to you on time, your business will suffer.
Unfortunately, this can happen when you appoint an individual as your registered agent or hire a service that forwards documents to you through the mail (instead of uploading them to an online account) or forces you to come and retrieve documents in person.
Your NV Agent Has Resigned
When you appoint an individual to act as your registered agent, such as a friend, family member, or employee, there’s always a chance that life circumstances will change and that person can no longer serve as your agent.
It’s also possible that your relationship with your registered agent may go south, and you’ll ask that person to resign!
Being Your Own Agent Is Inconvenient
The impulse to serve as your own registered agent is often strong—after all, it’s free and you’re already at work, right? However, there are some downsides.
First off, you need to be available during regular business hours, M-F, all year long. What if you want to go on vacation? Second, if you work from a home office, it’s easy for scammers to find your address using the Nevada Business Database. Third, it could be embarrassing to get served a lawsuit in front of customers or at home.
Penalties for Not Maintaining a Registered Agent
Not having a Nevada registered agent can have negative repercussions for your business.
General Consequences:
Being without a registered agent can result in your company:
- Missing or receiving critical notices late, which could lead to legal complications
- Losing the ability to sue the state or another company
- Losing your good standing with the state, which could prevent you from registering to do business in other states or securing funding through grants and loans
Financial and Administrative Penalties:
The penalties for not complying with state law by operating without a registered agent are different for LLCs and corporations:
LLCs:
The Nevada Revised Statutes don’t list any specific penalties for LLCs. However, that doesn’t mean that the consequences won’t be serious. NRS 86.246.3 states that “the Secretary of State may take any action necessary” against a non-compliant LLC. This includes suspension or forced dissolution of the company.
Corporations:
Not maintaining a registered agent as a corporation may cost you. According to NRS 78.090.3, corporations that don’t comply with the registered agent requirement may need to pay a fine of at least $100 but not more than $500.
Guide to Changing Your Nevada Registered Agent
Ready to appoint your new registered agent? Here’s how to change your registered agent in Nevada.
1. Getting Started
What You Need:
- Your Entity File Number
- Name and Address of New Registered Agent
- Signature of New Registered Agent
The Form to File:
Filing Fee:
- $60 (plus $2 for the 2.5% credit card processing fee if paying by card)
2. How to File a Statement of Change
You can file by mail, in person at the Secretary of State’s office in Carson City, or online. Expedited service is available for additional fees ($125 for 24-hour processing, $500 for two-hour processing, and $1000 for one-hour processing).
If you want to file in person but can’t make it to Carson City, you can hand-deliver expedited filings at the satellite office in Las Vegas. You can find the address listed in the instructions section of the Statement of Change of Registered Agent form.
When filing online, you’ll find the Statement of Change of Registered Agent form under “Miscellaneous Filings.”
Mail or in-person delivery:
Nevada Secretary of State
401 North Carson Street
Carson City, Nevada 89701-4201
Online:
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Changing to Our Service: How It Works
Protect your business by making sure that your Annual List and State Business License Renewal are always filed ahead of time with our Compliance Service.
Here’s an overview of how this service works:
Sign Up!
Sign up for our $35/year RA Service. At checkout, you’ll see an option that says “Changing Registered Agent?” Choose “Yes” from the dropdown menu.
Decide How to File Your Statement of Change of Registered Agent
1. Hire Us to File Your Statement
- Check the box that says “Hire Us to Change Your Registered Agent.”
- You don’t have to do anything beyond providing basic information about your company.
- We prepare and file your Statement of Change of Agent while you keep doing business as usual.
- The cost is $87: our $25 service fee plus $62 for the state filing fee + NV SOS card processing fee.
2. File on Your Own
- Don’t check the box that says “Hire Us to Change Your Registered Agent.”
- After signing up for your service, log in to your online account.
- Inside your account, under “Account” and then “Forms Library,” you’ll find a copy of the Statement of Change of Registered Agent by Represented Entity. Click on the “Mail” version of the form.
- When you’ve opened the “Mail” version of the form, you’ll see that our registered agent information has already been added to the “Newly Appointed Registered Agent” section and that the form is pre-signed. The form should also contain your company information, which you can edit as necessary.
- When you’re ready, download and print the PDF of your form.
- File this form with the NV Secretary of State and pay the $60 fee (plus $2 if you pay by card).
Check Your Email
We’ll send you an email containing your new registered agent information and other welcome emails.
What’s included with sign-up?
• All the documents necessary to form your company, signed and pre-populated with our Nevada registered agent information so you can file quickly
• A year of registered agent service with same-day scans of state and legal documents + our Las Vegas business address to protect your privacy
• Enrollment in Compliance Service (also called Renewal Service in your online portal) to protect you from missing your Nevada Annual Report filing (also known as the Annual List)
• A 90-day free trial of our Nevada Business Presence: Website & Phone package (if you opt in to the trial at checkout) + website setup assistance so you can easily get your company online
Compliance (Renewal) Service
One of the most common ways we see our clients getting into trouble with the state is by failing to file their Nevada Annual List (the equivalent of an Annual Report in many other states).
To prevent your company from suffering negative consequences of not filing (such as a $175 late fee), we include enrollment in Compliance Service (called Renewal Service in your portal) with Registered Agent Service.
How does it work?
100 days before your company’s anniversary month, you’ll receive an email reminder from us, letting you know that your Nevada Annual List due date is approaching and that we will file the list on your behalf in a week.
We’ll then file your company’s report on your behalf well ahead of the deadline. You’ll stay in compliance without even having to think about it.
The service costs $100 + the state fees, charged only at filing—not before. If you prefer to file your own report, just cancel the service inside your portal.
Nevada Business Presence: Website & Phone Package
If you opt for a 90-day free trial of our Nevada Business Presence: Website & Phone package, you’ll also receive an email about how to get started with your website.
Never made a website before?
No worries. As part of the package, you get free website setup assistance over the phone with a member of our web services team.
What you get with the package:
- Domain name (ex: “YourBusinessNameHere.org”)
- Website with SSL security
- Business email that matches your domain name (ex: “[email protected]”)
- VOIP phone service with Nevada area code (get calls and texts using our free iOS or Android app)
Your domain name is free for a full year, up to a $25 value. All other services are free for 90 days and $9/month each after that. If you keep all of the services, you get a 20% discount, for a total of $21.60 per month.
What’s in your online account?
• Free library of business documents
• A mailbox where all of your legal documents and mail scans are uploaded for your viewing
• Answers to FAQs and more information about your service
• Access to additional services: digital mail forwarding, virtual office, and more
• Access to additional filings: EIN, Trade Name (DBA), and more
Watch For Document Notices And Compliance Reminders
Continue to check your email account for any notifications regarding service of process and other legal documents.
About 3 months before your Annual list due date, we’ll also send a reminder about your annual filing and let you know that we will soon be filing on your behalf as part of Compliance Service (Don’t want Compliance Service? Cancel inside your account).
Renew Your Registered Agent Service
After you sign up, you’ve got a full year of Nevada registered agent service. When your year is almost up, we’ll email you a reminder about renewing your service.
Unlike some other registered agent companies, we won’t raise the price the second year—or any year after that. You’ll always get our Registered Agent Service for only $35/year.
Cost Breakdown
| Item | Cost at Checkout | Cost at Activation |
|---|---|---|
| One Year of Registered Agent Service | $35 | |
| Statement of Change Of RA Filing Service | $25 | |
| State of Change of RA State Filing Fee | $60 | |
| Credit Card Processing Fee (2.5%) | $2 | |
| Enrollment in Compliance (Renewal) Service | $0 | $100 + $state fees* |
| Nevada Business Presence Website & Phone | $0 | $21.60 monthly after your 90-day trial ends + about $25 yearly for domain service (first year is free)** |
| Total Cost at Checkout | $122 |
* You will receive an email reminder approximately 3 months before your Annual List due date; you can cancel the service in your online portal at any time. State fees depend on your entity type.
** $9/month per service if ordered separately, except for domain service, which is about $25/year (varies by domain).
Change of Agent Registered Agent FAQ
Your Entity File Number is assigned by the Secretary of State. If you have forgotten your number, you can do a Business Entity Search on the SOS website. Their records will list your number.
If your Nevada registered agent resigns, you have 30 days in which to hire a new agent.
When legal or state documents are delivered to us as your registered agent, we scan those documents and then upload them to your online account. This allows you to view your docs immediately, no matter where you are. You don’t have to wait around for us to physically deliver them to you.
You can request to have documents physically sent to you for a $15 plus postage. However, if we receive service of process from the state containing a check for you, we automatically forward this to you so you can get your money ASAP.
If you would like a package sent to you, the charge will vary according to the dimensions of the package.
We scan any and all legal and state documents that are delivered to us as part of your registered agent service. However, sometimes regular mail items arrive at our door, too, especially if you are using our business address.
If that happens, we open and scan the mail item and then upload the scan to your online account, just like we do with legal and state docs. We send you an email notification about your mail, and you can log in and view it anytime.
As a courtesy, we give you 3 free regular mail scans. After that, we’ll continue to scan your mail as it arrives so that you don’t lose it, but you’ll need to pay a fee of $15 to view items or upgrade to a bigger Mail Forwarding package (all of our mail forwarding packages use digital mail forwarding).
Because we see many clients dealing with the fallout of missing their Nevada Annual Report (Annual List) filing, we include enrollment in our Compliance Service (called Renewal Service in your online portal). This protects your business from the negative effects of failing to file, such as a $175 late fee and even administrative dissolution.
We’ll send you a reminder 100 days before your due date and let you know that we’ll be filing your Annual List in one week. Then we’ll file on your behalf, well before the deadline, so you stay in compliance without having to spare your report a second thought.
Compliance Service is $100 + the state fee, charged only at filing. If you want to file your own report, just cancel the service from within your online portal.
The state of Nevada requires you to submit an acceptance or consent form confirming that your new registered agent has agreed to serve as your agent. This form is called the Statement of Change of Registered Agent by Represented Entity.
If you’ve hired us as your new registered agent, but you didn’t hire us for Change of Agent Service, you’ll need to file this form on your own. However, we have provided you with a copy of the form pre-filled out with our information.
Inside your online account:
- Click on the “Account” drop-down menu. From there, click on “Forms Library.”
- Inside the library, you’ll find a document called “Change of Registered Agent by Represented Entity.” This is the document you want. Click “Select” next to the option for the Mail version of the form.
- You’ll be taken to a new page. At the top of the page, you’ll see “Online Filing – Change of Agent” and “Statement of Change of Registered Agent by Represented Entity.” Click on “Statement of Change of Registered Agent by Represented Entity.”
- A PDF copy of the form will appear in a pop-up window. This form should be pre-filled with your company information and our registered agent information. You’re able to edit the information as necessary. When you’re finished, click on “Download PDF” at the bottom right of the pop-up window to download a copy of this form that you can print and file with the Secretary of State.
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