Virginia Registered Agent Service, $24 a Year

The statutory requirement in Virginia

Requirement

The Virginia code provides:

2. A registered agent, who shall be: a. An individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and (i) either an officer or director of the corporation or (ii) a member of the Virginia State Bar and whose business office is identical with the registered office; or b. ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-634(A)(2) (corporations); § 13.1-1015(A)(2) (LLCs); § 13.1-763 (foreign corporations)

Service of process in our absence

Substituted service

... cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, then the clerk of the Commission shall be an agent of the corporation upon whom service may be made in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-637(B); parallel provisions at § 13.1-1018(B) (LLC) and § 13.1-766(B) (foreign corp)

Enforcement in Virginia

The state's remedies against a company whose agent does not perform. Quoted without paraphrase.

Administrative dissolution by the state

If any domestic corporation whose registered agent has filed with the Commission a statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-636 fails to file a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-635 within 31 days ... the Commission shall mail notice to the corporation of the impending termination of its corporate existence. ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-752(B); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.2(B)

Administrative dissolution by the state

... or a registered agent in this Commonwealth as required by law ... Upon termination, the properties and affairs of the corporation shall pass automatically to its directors as trustees in liquidation.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-753(A)(ii); parallel LLC provision at § 13.1-1050.3(A)(2)

Revocation of foreign authority

If any foreign corporation whose registered agent has filed with the Commission a statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-765 fails to file a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-764 within 31 days ... the Commission shall mail notice to the foreign corporation of the impending revocation of its certificate of authority. ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-768(C); § 13.1-769(A)(2)

Loss of standing to sue

... a certificate of authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in the Commonwealth until it obtains a certificate of authority.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(A)

Pecuniary penalty

... and employee who does any of such business in the Commonwealth knowing that a certificate of authority is required shall be liable for a penalty of not less than $500 and not more than $5,000.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-758(D)

Restoration

Fee upon restoration

To have its corporate existence reinstated, the corporation shall provide the Commission with the following: ... 2. A reinstatement fee of $100; 3. ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Va. Code § 13.1-754(B)(2)-(3); § 13.1-769.1(B)(2); § 13.1-1050.4(B)(2)

The Virginia annual report, which you may also decline

Virginia levies an annual charge to keep a company in good standing. The amount is below. Declining it is consistent with everything else on this page.

Annual report, limited liability company

$50 per annum.

an annual registration fee of $50

Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title13.1/chapter12/section13.1-1062/

Annual report, corporation

$100 per annum.

... CORPORATION: Authorized shares Fee 1 - 5,000 $ 100 ... over 270,000 1700

Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: SCC 'Annual Corporation Requirements' / Annual Registration Fee Schedule (rev. 02/26), citing Va. Code 13.1-775.1

Our position

We decline. At this price you may have expected otherwise.

Statutory text captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01, verified against the code on 2026-08-10. Statutes are amended. This page is not.