Switch Your Rhode Island Registered Agent

One form, $20, done. Rhode Island processes registered agent changes through Form 642, and nothing about the filing is complicated. The statutes say resident agent; the rest of the country says registered agent; the role is identical.

Form 642 and the $20 State Fee

Form 642 is the Statement of Change of Resident Agent and/or Address of Resident Agent for LLCs. File it on paper with the Division of Business Services or electronically through the Business Services Online Filing System. The $20 charge comes from the fee statute, R.I. Gen. Laws § 7-16-65, subsection (10).

Worth knowing: an agent that is only updating its own address files at no charge under § 7-16-65(11), on a separate document, Form 642A. Replacing the agent itself, though, is Form 642 and $20.

The Four Steps

1. Pick a qualifying replacement. Rhode Island accepts an individual resident of the state, or a corporation, LP, or LLC organized here or authorized to do business here. Street address required; no PO boxes.
2. Fill in Form 642 with your entity name, ID number, and the incoming agent's name and address.
3. File it, online or on paper, and pay the $20.
4. Check your entity record afterward. The change is real when the state database shows it.

When It Makes Sense to Switch

• Documents reach you days after they arrived at your agent's office
• Your home address sits in the public record because you are your own agent
• Renewal pricing keeps climbing while the service stays the same
• Your agent moved, retired, or stopped answering
• You left Rhode Island but kept the entity active here

What You Get When You Switch to Us

• A Rhode Island street address on your filings instead of yours
• Scans emailed the same day anything arrives
• Reminders for the annual report window (February 1 through May 1, $50 state fee)
• A separate heads-up for the Division of Taxation's $400 minimum tax
• A document portal that keeps the full history
• $99/year, flat

When you enroll, we hand you our agent details formatted for Form 642 plus filing instructions. You file, the state records it, and coverage starts.

During the Transition

The old agent keeps receiving documents until the state records the change. If that old agent is you, watch your mail until the record flips. After that, everything routes to us.

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