The below is a list of services impacted by closures or suspension of services due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We will update the information as news become available. Please refer back to this page for any new updates.
| STATE | COUNTER SERVICE/DROP OFF | ELECTRONIC SERVICE | DELAYS | REOPENING DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | Annual Report due date extended thru July 15th. | OPEN, Electronic Filings requested when possible. |
| Alaska | Counter Service Suspended. Filings can be mailed or faxed | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | |
| Arizona | Corporation Commission, which handles LLCs & Corporations open. Secretary of State which handles Partnerships & UCCs has suspended counter service | Electronic Fiings are available at both offices and encouraged | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Apostilles can be dropped off and picked up within 1-2 business days. An internal error is causing issues with the new expedite options. They are not currently available yet. | |
| Arkansas | Counter Service Suspended, dropbox is available | Electronic Filings Available | 2-3 business day delays can be expected in additonal to the normal turnaround. Annual Report due date extended to July 15th | |
| California | Counter Service Suspended, dropbox is available. They are working with a skeleton crew. All expedites and preclearances are suspended. The state has also suspended the 72 hour resubmission deadline to retain a filing date after rejection. | Electronic Filings Available | Evidence is being returned via mail, so this will cause further delays along with the normal 7-10 business day routine turnaorund.. | *UPDATED AS OF 12/7/20 |
| Colorado | Counter service and dropboxes are suspended. All services that cannot be completed online must be submitted via mail. | Electronic Filings Available | No pickup or dropoff available for filings requiring filing. 1-4 business day delalys should be expected. | |
| Connecticut | Counter service suspended. Filings requiring doropoff will require an appontment | Good Standings are still available electronically as well as a few electronic filings | All expedite services are suspended. All filings will take 3-4 weeks to process. Annual Report due date extended through June 30th. | |
| DC | Counter Service Suspended. DC Recorder of Deeds closed. UCC filings can be mailed for processing once they reopen. | Good standings can still be received electronically. Corporate e-filings are available with delays in evidence. We can run UCC searches through their database. | 1-4 business day delays can be expected for corporate filings in additional to the normal turnaround. The due date for annual reports and trade name renewals has been extended through June 1 without incurring penalties. | |
| Delaware | OPEN FOR BUSINESS | |||
| Florida | Counter Service Suspended | As a service company, we are allowed 1 drop off every afternoon. (through 4/19). Electronic filings are still available | STATE UNEXPECTEDLY CLOSED THE WEEK OF JULY 13TH FOR DEEP CLEANING | |
| Georgia | Counter Service Suspended | Mail in Service and Electronic filings are available. | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. 1-month extension for annual reports has been issued. | |
| Hawaii | Counter Service Suspended | Good Standings and charter documents are still available electronically and you can still e-file most documents except mergers and conversions. | Mail-in documents can expect long delays. | |
| Idaho | Counter Service Suspended | All electronic filings are being accepted as well as fax filings | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | |
| Illlinois | See NOTES | Extreme delays can be expected. Annual report due dates have been extended by 90 days from when the state reopens. | The IL SOS has once again scaled back access to the building for service companies. As of Monday, December 7, we will only have access to the Corporate Department, LLLC, LP, LLP and LLLP from 2:00 to 2:45pm. This is an assigned time slot. Our cut off for all documents for the above-mentioned departments is 2:00pm so that we may have time to review your documents. As of right now, the UCC Department is still allowing us to drop off documents by 3:30pm to retain the date submitted as the file date. Our cut off for UCC documents to be received in our office remains the same at 3:00pm. We have also been made aware that all Business Services Departments are cutting back on staff as of this coming Monday as well. We expect all processing times to become delayed and will do our best to provide you with the most accurate time frames possible. NO “Stand and Wait” expedited filings will be accepted at this time. All daily submissions will be handled the next business day for routing and processing. The date the document is received by mail or dropped off in person at the filing location will be used to determine the filing order. No in person contact with SOS employees will be allowed. We are to contact the SOS through email or phone calls for any questions. | |
| Indiana | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | |
| Iowa | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. 6 extra weeks have been added to the annual report due date, along you to file the report through July 15th to avoid administrative dissolution. | reopened |
| Kansas | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Annual Report due date extended through July 15th. | OPEN with social distancing restrictions, delays still expected |
| Kentucky | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | |
| Louisiana | Counter Service Suspended with limited staff. | Electronic Filings Available | 2-5 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | OPEN ut still experiencing some delays. |
| Maine | Counter Service Suspended | Dropbox, mailed filings accepted. Good Standings and Certified Copies available electronically | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | |
| Maryland | Counter Service Suspended | Filings are accepted via FedEx/UPS; online services available. Expedite fees are geing waived for online filings. | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Annual Reports & Personal Property Return due date extended through July 15. Maryland has added 14 new online filings, including certified copy requests to assist with delays. | |
| Massachusetts | Open for business with limited staff. | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | |
| Michigan | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Authentications can expect serious delays. | |
| Minnesota | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | |
| Mississippi | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | ||
| Missouri | Counter Service Suspended | Eletronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround | OPEN with social distancing restrictions, delays still expected |
| Montana | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | Late fees for annual reports have been suspended through July 15th. | OPEN with social distancing restrictions, delays still expected |
| Nebraska | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. The Corporations Division has announced that they are waiving the $50 late filing penalty for Annual and Five Year Reports until May 1, 2020. Accordingly, the late filing penalty will not apply to Reports filed after April 1, 2020 but before May 2, 2020. Reports filed on or after May 2, 2020 will incur the penalty. | |
| Nevada | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | Annual Report due dates have been extended by 60 days. Nevada is no longer holding the filing date is a filing is rejected. | |
| New Hampshire | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | Annual Report due dates extended one month. | |
| New Jersey | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Expedite delays as well. | |
| New Mexico | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Same day service suspended. Annual Report due date extended through July 15th | |
| New York | Counter Service Suspended | NY County Clerk and NYC NY DOS office is closed until further notice; please contact us for legalization instructions, if necessary. The main Albany office is still processing work, but Counter Service has been suspended. Electronic filings are still being processed. 24 hour service should take 1-3 business days. Same Day service will remain same day approval, next day evidence. 2 hour approval will still be available. | 5-7 business day delay on all evidence. NO same day evidence will be issued. Evidency has been severly delayed to at least 7-10 business days. Additionally, while sporadic certified evidence has been received, filing receipts are having some technical issues and have been coming in separately. | Queens County and NY County ONLY have reopened for apostilles and recording. We still expect long delays. |
| North Carolina | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Annual Report late fees have been suspended through June 15th. | |
| North Dakota | OPEN FOR BUSINESS | OPEN | ||
| Ohio | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. State is requiring documents that can be filed online to be filed online at this time. | OPEN, Electronic Filings requested when possible. |
| Oklahoma | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. | |
| Oregon | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 3-5 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. | |
| Pennsylvania | Counter Service Suspended | 1. The Corporation Bureau is picking up filings from a drop box once a day around 12 noon. However, there will be no order processing, of any kind, during the 14-day shut down. a. As the filings are picked up daily from the drop box is the order in which they will be processed once the state is back up and running. This includes UCC filings. b. We were instructed to put the day and time on the envelopes of orders that we drop in the box but the Corporation Bureau will not guarantee date and time stamps at this time. 2. We can still perform most PA County Courthouse searches as they are not affected by the State Government shutdown. 3. E-filings and documents orders are available | Long delays expected once the state re-opens. PA | PA is now allowing 5 expedited filings per day |
| Rhode Island | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. | |
| South Carolina | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. | |
| South Dakota | Counter Service Suspended with limited staff. | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. | |
| Tennessee | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. | |
| Texas | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Expect much longer delays for filings that have to be mailed or faxed. The Comptroller has extended the due date for franchise taxes through July 15th. Texas is only issuing the Certificate of Filing immediately. The copy of the actual document is being mailed separately, so will arrive a few days later. Routine filings are taking 30 days or more. | |
| Utah | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. | |
| Vermont | Counter Service Suspended | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. | OPEN with social distancing restrictions, delays still expected | |
| Virginia | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 2-5 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Certified Copies can take at least 3 weeks to process. | |
| Washington | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. Annual Report due date extended to 60 days from when the state reopens. | |
| West Virginia | OPEN FOR BUSINESS | Counter Service has been suspended, they are only operating electronically | ||
| Wisconsin | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 2-5 business day delays can be expected in addtion to the normal turnaround. | |
| Wyoming | Counter Service Suspended | Electronic Filings Available | 1-3 business day delays can be expected in addition to the normal turnaround. |