Form an LLC · VA

How to form an LLC in Virginia

Virginia LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Clerk’s Office — the official filing fee is $100 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $250 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Virginia LLC

What Virginia requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Virginia State Corporation Commission, Clerk’s Office verified 2026-09-24
Virginia filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$100 Articles of Organization filing fee (domestic Virginia LLC, online or Form LLC1011). verified 2026-09-30
  • The SCC business-types page lists a $100 filing fee for a Virginia LLC articles of organization. source
Online filing
Yes — You can form a Virginia LLC online through the SCC’s Clerk’s Information System. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Online filing is approved quicker, in some cases the same day; the new-business page does not state a standard turnaround in business days. verified 2026-09-30
Expedited options
Online next-business-day expedite $50 or $100 (submit by 2:00 p.m. EST for a filing response by 4:00 p.m. EST the following business day); Online same-business-day expedite $200 (submit by 10:00 a.m. EST for a filing response by 4:00 p.m. EST the same business day) verified 2026-09-30
  • Expedite is online only; the Clerk's page says paper submissions may not be expedited and expedite fees are nonrefundable. source · source 2
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited company,” “limited liability company,” or L.C., LC, L.L.C., or LLC. verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A Virginia LLC must continuously maintain a registered agent and registered office in the Commonwealth. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Virginia Limited Liability Company Act, Va. Code §§ 13.1-1000 et seq. verified 2026-09-24

What you’ll need

The Corpus intake collects this information to prepare the filing. Some questions are asked only when they apply — for example, the management question is asked only when the company has more than one owner.

  • What do you want to name the company?
  • In a sentence, what will the business actually do?
  • Where should official mail go — street, city, state, ZIP?
  • What email should we use for this order?
  • Which industry code fits this business?
  • Besides you, will anyone else have authority to make decisions for the business?
  • Who owns this company?

Virginia asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$100
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$50
Total at checkout
$250

Registered agent renews at $99/yr after the included first year — cancel anytime. Itemized pricing for every state is on the price grid; how Corpus compares to other formation services is on the comparison page.

After you form: staying in good standing

Annual report
Annual report — statute: on or before the last day of the twelfth month next succeeding the month of organization, and by that date each year thereafter. SCC FAQ: last day of the organization month. verified 2026-09-30
  • Virginia LLCs pay a $50 annual registration fee; the Clerk's annual-report FAQ describes that report as a corporation filing. source · source 2 · source 3
Report fee
$50 (domestic LLC; SCC calls this a registration fee, not an information report) verified 2026-09-30
  • Conditional: $25 late penalty (SCC FAQ: penalty for business types other than stock and nonstock corporations if unpaid by the due date). source
Franchise or privilege tax
Only if the LLC elects to pay Virginia pass-through entity income tax at the entity level. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Virginia Department of Taxation. The pass-through entity income tax is imposed at the entity level only by election. source · source 2 · source 3 · source 4

Comparing what registered-agent service costs after year one across providers? The comparison page publishes renewal prices.

Form it with your AI agent

You don’t have to do the intake here. Any agent that can open a link can run the whole thing — Corpus’s formation tools give it Virginia’s requirements and live price, it asks you the questions above, and it hands back a prefilled link you review and pay. Paste this into your assistant:

Form an LLC in Virginia for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Virginia's requirements and price, ask me what you need, and give me the prefilled link.

The guide is on /agents, the protocol reference is /docs/mcp, and the installable skill for this state is the Virginia SKILL.md.

Sources

Every verified fact above names where Corpus read it and the date it was last verified. Sources marked secondary are third-party write-ups used only where an official page did not publish the answer.

Corpus is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Fees and rules change — each verified fact above shows the date Corpus last verified it; anything marked “not yet verified” should be confirmed with the filing office.