The requirement you cannot opt out of.
Every US state requires your company to name a registered agent with a real street address in that state, staffed during business hours, to receive legal and government mail. Not a PO box. If you do not live in the state, you have to appoint one - and if the appointment lapses, the state can dissolve your company.
What's included
- A registered agent in your state of formation, included
- A physical street address that satisfies the statute
- Service of process and state mail received on your behalf
- Scanned to you wherever in the world you are
- A US business address for the company on top of the agent address
- Kept current so the appointment never lapses
What it costs
Bundled from the $297/year formation plan upward, rather than sold as an add-on. Your state’s filing fee is separate and paid straight through to them.
Worth knowing before you choose
Your own address will not do
It has to be in the state of formation and staffed in business hours. A home address abroad, a mail-forwarding box, or a virtual office generally does not satisfy the requirement. The four addresses people confuse.
Delaware tightened the rules in 2025
Delaware now explicitly bars agents from operating purely through a virtual office or mail-forwarding service, and requires identity verification and periodic sanctions screening of the companies they serve.
A lapsed agent is quietly fatal
If the appointment lapses, official notices go undelivered. Companies routinely discover this only when they are already out of good standing.
Built to work with the platforms you already use
Especially relevant if you're in
Not a generic country list -- these are the specific markets where this service solves a real, documented problem.
Banking guidance here is genuinely unsettled -- a real US address is one less variable when everything else is being verified case by case.
A documented US business address matters more once a founder is also navigating Turkey's own exchange and reporting rules.
The July 2026 Bangladesh Bank forex overhaul makes a compliant, on-paper US presence worth more, not less.
Everything else your US company needs
Bookkeeping
Categorised transactions, connected bank feeds, invoices out the door, reports you can hand a lender.
Business taxes
Federal and state filings handled on time, with a licensed professional on a call when you need one.
E-commerce analytics
Shopify and Amazon sales, orders and ad spend in one dashboard, next to your books.
EIN without an SSN
The biggest blocker for founders outside the US. We run the SS-4 process end to end.
US company for e-commerce
The entity, EIN and address Amazon, Shopify Payments and Stripe expect before they verify a seller.
Sales tax & nexus
Economic nexus and marketplace facilitator rules, tracked and filed so a threshold crossed in a state you have never visited does not turn into a notice.
US LLC for Amazon FBA
Formed the way Seller Central actually verifies, with the right tax form from day one.
US LLC for Shopify
Built for the operational-presence check behind Shopify Payments, not just a certificate and an EIN.
US LLC for dropshipping
Wyoming-first, priced for a business with no US inventory and a real answer on nexus.
US LLC for TikTok Shop
The domestic-track entity, EIN and bank account TikTok Shop's cross-border track does not give you.
US LLC for content creators
The privacy, banking and liability separation an individual creator account does not have.
Form the company
LLC or C-Corp in any of the 50 states, with the EIN and registered agent included.
How this works. NameMarshal is not a law firm or an accountancy practice, and nothing on this page is legal or tax advice. Registered agent service is delivered through NameMarshal's formation network, set up to act in all 50 states. Foreign-owned US LLCs generally have to file Form 5472 with a pro-forma Form 1120 every year, even with no income, and the penalty for missing it is steep. Ask us and we will point you at someone licensed to handle it.