Registered agent / office change for US businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — registered agent / office change is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to IRS. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside corporate compliance more broadly, that stays with your CPA or enrolled agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for registered agent / office change — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Registered agent / office change sits inside corporate compliance, alongside Annual report & franchise tax compliance, Company name change, Charter & bylaws amendment. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

Delaware requires every corporation and LLC to keep a registered agent with an in-state street address on continuous file — it's a condition of the entity's existence, not an optional extra. That address is where legal papers and state notices are legally delivered, which matters even more when the people actually running the company are not in the US to notice a letter arriving.

No. A Delaware registered agent has to be a state-authorized individual resident or a registered agent-service company with a physical in-state address, and CapEasy holds no such authorization from India. We engage and coordinate a state-authorized registered agent provider on your behalf; the agent function itself stays with them.

Two things, both serious. First, the state can move the entity toward administrative dissolution, the same consequence as unpaid franchise tax. Second, and more urgent, a lapsed agent is still the legally designated address for service of process — if a lawsuit is filed and the summons can't reach anyone real, a court can proceed toward a default judgment without the company ever having actually seen the complaint.

Delaware's standard domestic corporation Change of Agent/Office fee is $50 (an exempt corporation pays $5); a domestic or foreign LLC or LP "Change of Agent Only Amendment" is also $50; a "blanket" change covering multiple entities under one agent is $169. Those are Delaware's own fees, confirmed directly against its published fee schedule.

Standard Delaware processing runs from a few business days out to roughly two weeks, and it can only be filed by mail, in person, or through a registered agent's own electronic filing access — this particular filing is not available as a direct online submission with the state. Expedited processing is available for an added fee if the timeline is tight.

Usually yes, but many providers absorb or discount it as part of winning your switch business — registered agent companies commonly advertise handling the change filing at little or no extra cost when you sign up with them as the new agent, on top of Delaware's own $50 fee.

The old agent relationship ends according to its own contract terms once the change is filed and the new agent is on record with the state — we build notifying and terminating the old agent into the same change plan so you aren't billed by two providers at once.

They can be changed together or separately — the Delaware certificate covers both a change of registered agent and a change of registered office, and most companies change both at once because a new agent typically comes with its own registered address.

No, and that's the trap. The registered office on Delaware's record is separate from your operating address on file with your bank, state business licences, or other agencies. We map out where the old address is likely to still be on file so those get updated too, not just the state filing.

Only if a company officer is a Delaware resident with a physical, business-hours-staffed Delaware street address — a home address in another state or a P.O. box does not qualify, which is why almost every India-founded Delaware entity uses a commercial registered agent provider instead.

Delaware's public entity search shows the current registered agent and office of record for any entity. We check this as part of the same cadence we track franchise tax and annual report deadlines, so a lapse gets caught on our schedule rather than discovered when a notice from the state arrives.