We operate a staffed registered office in Washington, DC for national registered agent providers. Your name stays on the filing. Our people receive, scan, and route what arrives at the door, under your procedures.
Notice to the public
District Agent Services does not offer registered agent, mail, or business services to the general public. We cannot accept service of process or correspondence for a company that is not represented by one of our associated providers.
If you need a registered agent in the District of Columbia, please contact a national registered agent provider directly.
What a national provider needs from a District office
You already know how to run a registered agent business. What you need in Washington is an office that behaves like your own, at a street address that satisfies the District, staffed by people who treat your process the way your own staff would.
- Professional presence
- A real office in a limestone building in Dupont Circle, at a street address that meets the District's registered office requirement. Deliveries are accepted in person during business hours. It is not a mailbox, not a virtual suite, and not a law office doing this on the side.
- Reliability
- Service of process is accepted by a person, logged, scanned, and delivered the same business day. Two people are trained on every account, so coverage does not depend on one person's calendar. Nothing waits over a weekend.
- Your systems or ours
- If you run a service of process portal, a ticketing queue, or a document intake, our staff work inside it with the access you set. If you would rather we did not, we deliver through our own secure channel in your naming and retention format. Either way you see the same record you would see from your own office.
- Your workflow
- Every provider has a written runbook: how process is accepted, how each document class is routed, who is called for time-sensitive matters, what the acknowledgement looks like, and how exceptions are escalated. We follow it as written and change it only when you change it.
- Staffed by people who live here
- Our team lives and works in the District. They know Superior Court and DLCP practice, recognize what arrives at the door, and can be at the Corporations Division counter on 4th Street SW when something has to be walked in.
- Discretion
- Your clients see your name on the filing and your brand on every acknowledgement, never ours. Associated providers appear on this site only as the companies we direct the public to, never described as tenants or clients, and every provider's work is kept apart from every other's. How the separation works is set out below.
Each provider's filings stay with that provider
Several national providers can share one District office only if nothing else is shared. The office is built so that one provider's process, records, and people never touch another's.
Separate intake at the door
Every delivery is matched to the provider named on it before it is opened or logged. A document addressed to your registered agent is handled as yours from the first minute, in your own queue.
Separate records
Each provider has its own service of process log, its own scan library, and its own retention schedule. Records are never stored in a shared folder or a shared system, and one provider's history is never used to answer another's question.
Access scoped to your account
Staff work in your systems with the credentials you issue and the permissions you set. Where we deliver through our own channel, access is granted per provider, and nobody outside your account can open your documents.
No shared client lists
We do not compile, compare, or market to the entities represented by the providers we serve. Your client list is yours, and it stays out of every conversation with anyone else.
Discreet by design
Associated providers are named on this site only as the companies we direct the public to, never as tenants or clients, and nothing in our office or correspondence identifies us to your clients. Our staff sign confidentiality agreements that cover every account.
Audit on request
You may review your own intake log, chain of custody, and access records at any time, and inspect the office with notice. Nothing about another provider is visible in that review.
How an engagement runs
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Accreditation review
Tell us about your company, your District volume, and how you work today. We confirm that you are an established registered agent provider and agree the scope. We do not take on individual companies or start-up resellers.
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Terms and runbook
Wholesale terms are set for each provider and are not published. We draft the runbook from your procedures, you approve it, and it becomes the standard our staff are trained against.
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Go-live
You file the registered office address under your own name with the District; we prepare what your filing team needs. Staff are trained on your account before the first document arrives.
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Operate
Daily intake and routing, a monthly activity summary, and a named contact who knows your account and answers the phone.
What the District requires, and how it is met at 1615 New Hampshire
| Requirement | D.C. Code | At this office |
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| Every domestic filing entity and registered foreign entity must designate and continuously maintain a registered agent in the District. | § 29-104.02 | Your designation continues unchanged. We supply the office and the people behind it. |
| The registered agent's address in a filing must be a street address in the District, not only a post office box. | § 29-104.03 | A street address in Dupont Circle with a staffed suite. Deliveries are accepted in person. |
| A registered agent must forward to the represented entity any process, notice, or demand it receives. | § 29-104.13 | Same-business-day scanning and routing, logged with chain of custody, under your runbook. |
| An entity without a registered agent in the District for 60 days is subject to administrative dissolution. | § 29-106.01 | Continuity of coverage: two trained staff on every account and no dependence on a single person. |
| A commercial registered agent may file a listing statement, after which one statement covers the entities it represents. | § 29-104.05 | Providers keep their own listing and their own name on the record. We do not become the agent of record unless you ask us to. |
Citations are to the D.C. Code, Title 29, Business Organizations. Filings are made with the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection, Corporations Division. This page describes a service; it is not legal advice.
Request partner terms
For accredited registered agent providers. Tell us who you are and how you work, and we will reply within two business days from a named person.
Members of the public: this form is for service companies only and inquiries about individual companies cannot be answered. Please see the public notice.