Virginia LLC Formation Service

The standard FilingOak Virginia order separates the two amounts:

• FilingOak formation service: $495
• Virginia online state filing amount: $100
• Standard order total: $595

Virginia's own LLC filing page lists $100 for Form LLC1011, the Articles of Organization. FilingOak's current online state amount is the same $100. The state amount is not part of FilingOak's $495 service fee.

That separation matters because filing directly with Virginia remains a real option. If you already have a valid registered agent, are comfortable preparing the filing and want to handle the rest of the formation work yourself, the state provides the direct route.

A Virginia LLC must maintain one registered agent and one registered office. The LLC cannot act as its own registered agent. The current Articles instructions also make clear that the registered office is the business office of the agent, not simply an address chosen because it happens to be in Virginia. Virginia Articles of Organization instructions.

The individual-agent rule is more specific than the shorthand description people often remember.

An individual agent must be a Virginia resident and fit an eligible relationship or professional capacity identified by the SCC, such as being a member or manager of the LLC or a member of the Virginia State Bar. Virginia also permits certain qualifying business entities that are authorized to transact business in the state to serve.

So a friend living in Virginia is not automatically an eligible registered agent merely because that friend has a Virginia street address.

The registered office also has to be a physical Virginia location that satisfies the SCC's rules. The current instructions state that a virtual office, mail drop or commercial mail receiving agency is not acceptable as the registered office. See Sections III through V of Form LLC1011.

This is one place where first-year Registered Agent service inside the FilingOak package is doing something concrete. It is not an ornamental line in a feature list. It resolves a state requirement that can otherwise stop a founder who does not already have a qualifying Virginia arrangement.

The first year of Registered Agent service is already included with FilingOak formation. The Registered Agent service page explains the ongoing service if you later choose to continue it.

Virginia's current Articles ask for the LLC name, principal office, registered agent, registered office and organizer signatures. The principal office must be a physical address rather than a P.O. box, and the registered office is part of the public state record. Virginia SCC registered agent and office guidance.

The form does not automatically require a complete member list merely because those people own the LLC. It does, however, require the organizer or organizers to sign.

That distinction is useful because two different ideas are often collapsed into the word privacy.

Not forcing every owner onto the Articles is one thing. Making the entire company invisible is another. Virginia still maintains a public business record, the registered office is public, and other filings or business relationships can create additional records.

The package includes Public Record Address Privacy, but only for Virginia fields the real FilingOak address arrangement can properly support. It is not an anonymity promise, an unrestricted address rental, or a guarantee that a bank, processor, marketplace or other third party will accept the same address for its own purpose.

Those two addresses solve different state questions.

The principal office is the LLC's principal executive office. Virginia's current Articles instructions say it must be a physical address and generally cannot be a P.O. box. The registered office is the Virginia business office of the registered agent. That office must satisfy the separate registered-office rules described in Form LLC1011.

This is why FilingOak does not treat an address service as a universal answer to every field on a Virginia filing. A registered-agent address can satisfy the registered-office requirement when the arrangement is valid, but that does not automatically turn it into the LLC's principal executive office or give the founder an unrestricted mailing address for every other purpose.

Public Record Address Privacy is useful only when the field, the state rule and the actual service arrangement line up. The honest boundary is more useful than promising that one address can be copied into every box.

This is the Virginia maintenance point that is easy to describe incorrectly.

Virginia stock and nonstock corporations have annual-report requirements. A Virginia LLC does not follow that same annual-report system. Instead, the LLC pays an annual registration fee of $50. The SCC states that the fee is assessed each year after the year in which the LLC was formed and is due by the last day of the LLC's formation month. Virginia SCC annual registration fee guidance.

For a Virginia LLC formed in October 2026, that means the first ordinary $50 registration fee is due by the last day of October 2027. It is not an annual report with a $50 filing fee. It is an annual registration fee.

If a checklist tells you to file a $50 Virginia LLC annual report, compare that wording with the SCC before putting it on your calendar. The recurring LLC obligation the SCC describes is the $50 annual registration fee. The label matters because looking for the wrong filing is a surprisingly efficient way to miss the right deadline.

The recurring amount is modest. The consequence of ignoring it is not.

Virginia says a late LLC registration fee receives a $25 penalty. If the fee remains unpaid through the last day of the third month following the due date, a domestic Virginia LLC is automatically canceled by operation of law. Virginia SCC maintenance guidance.

Using the same October example:

• Formation: October 2026
• First annual registration fee: $50 due by the last day of October 2027
• Late penalty: $25 if the payment is not made by the due date
• Automatic cancellation point: the last day of January 2028 if the fee still has not been paid

That is a much more useful maintenance picture than a generic sentence saying Virginia has a $50 annual fee.

The Compliance Center and Compliance Reminder Notifications included with FilingOak formation are designed to keep obligations like this visible. They do not transfer the LLC's legal responsibility to FilingOak, and a reminder should never be treated as permission to ignore the underlying state deadline.

Because Virginia LLCs do not file an annual report, the $50 annual registration payment should not be mistaken for an annual opportunity to rewrite the company's public information.

The SCC provides separate filings for changes such as the principal office address and the registered agent or registered office. Its current LLC filing schedule lists those maintenance filings separately, with no fee for the standard principal-office update or registered-agent change. Virginia LLC maintenance filings.

That gives Virginia a slightly unusual maintenance pattern:

• The annual registration fee keeps the recurring state charge current.
• Changes to the company record are handled through the filing that actually belongs to the change.
• There is no LLC annual report that automatically combines both jobs.

For a founder, that means paying $50 on time is necessary, but it does not excuse leaving an outdated registered agent or principal office in the state record.

The Virginia state filing is one part of the purchase. The FilingOak service layer is the work around it.

The current Virginia formation package includes:

1. LLC Formation Filing
2. First-Year Registered Agent Service
3. State-Specific Operating Agreement
4. FounderVault Access
5. Compliance Center
6. Compliance Reminder Notifications
7. FilingOak Foundation Report
8. EIN Application Service for eligible U.S. and non-U.S. founders
9. Same-Day Legal Mail Scanning & Uploads
10. Public Record Address Privacy

The Virginia formation package includes Registered Agent service for the first year. Continuing the service later is optional and requires customer action.

The $495 FilingOak formation service is not split into domestic and international tiers. A non-U.S. responsible party may follow a different EIN procedure, but residence does not remove pieces from the formation package or change its service price.

The Virginia Registered Agent service in the package covers the first year. If you want FilingOak to continue in that role afterward, the current price is the then-disclosed renewal price and renewal requires your authorization.

The SCC's online form can make the filing feel like a set of blanks. The facts behind those blanks still have to be right.

FilingOak needs the proposed LLC name, the actual principal-office information, the ownership and management facts needed for the Operating Agreement, the people authorized to act for the company, and the information required for the EIN application. The registered-agent arrangement also has to fit Virginia's eligibility rule before the Articles can be filed correctly.

If a fact is missing or contradictory, FilingOak would rather resolve it before submission than convert uncertainty into a government record.

Virginia itself uses the same basic discipline. Its Articles instructions warn against processing errors and require organizer signatures on a filing that the signer knows to be accurate. Virginia Form LLC1011.

Virginia is one of the states where FilingOak does not pretend that every founder needs a formation service.

If you already have a qualifying Virginia registered agent and registered office, understand the information the Articles require, are comfortable handling the Operating Agreement and EIN process yourself, and do not want the document organization or compliance tools in the FilingOak package, filing directly with the SCC is a sensible choice.

You would pay Virginia's $100 formation fee directly and keep the $495 service fee.

The comparison changes when you need the registered-agent requirement handled, want the filing prepared and submitted for you, want a state-specific Operating Agreement and EIN application included, or want the resulting state documents, legal-mail records and compliance information kept together in FounderVault.

The filing is not made more valid merely because you paid someone to submit it. The service earns its place only when the work around the filing is work you actually want handled.

A formation service can prepare and submit accurate administrative filings. It cannot decide legal or tax questions that exist before the form.

If you are uncertain whether an LLC is the correct entity, need advice about ownership rights, require custom legal provisions, are entering a regulated or professional activity, or need advice about Virginia tax or licensing consequences, those questions sit outside FilingOak's formation scope.

FilingOak's role here is administrative formation and document handling. FilingOak does not provide legal, tax or accounting advice, does not act as a bank or government office, and cannot guarantee an approval controlled by someone else. FilingOak does not turn an unresolved legal or tax decision into a checkbox simply because a filing portal has one nearby.