Northern Mariana Islands wants an agent for service of process with a street address in the Commonwealth. You file with the Registrar of Corporations at the Department of Commerce, not a U.S. Secretary of State. The annual report fee is $75 and is due by March 1.

What the Northern Mariana Islands actually requires

The copy of Public Law 14-11 used here is the PDF on the Registrar’s site, checked October 2, 2026. It is the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act as adopted by the Fourteenth Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature. § 108 is titled “Designated Office and Agent for Service of Process.” A limited liability company, and a foreign limited liability company authorized to do business in the Commonwealth, shall designate and continuously maintain an office, which need not be a place of its business in the Commonwealth, and an agent and street address of the agent for service of process. Who may be that agent is in § 108(b). The agent must be an individual resident of the Commonwealth, a domestic corporation, another limited liability company, or a foreign corporation or foreign company authorized to do business in the Commonwealth. The section does not state an age of 18. It does not state “9 a.m. to 5 p.m.” It does not use the words “P.O. Box.”

§ 203 says the articles of organization must set forth the name of the company, the address of the initial designated office, and the name and street address of the initial agent for service of process. They also name the organizers, and they cover a term company, a manager-managed company, and member liability when those elections apply. You deliver the articles to the Registrar of Corporations. The domestic LLC checklist, checked the same day, repeats that list. It asks for the physical location and mailing address of the initial designated office, and for the name and street address of the initial agent plus the consent form. The filing-fee line is $112.50 for the articles, $37.50 for the operating agreement, and $37.50 for the consent, payable to CNMI Treasury. 4 CMC § 4205 is the statute those dollars come from. It says the fees are paid to the Department of Finance, and proof of payment is delivered to the Registrar. Item (1) is $112.50 for articles of organization. Item (18) is $37.50 for any other document required or permitted to be filed, and the list includes an operating agreement. Item (21) is $37.50 for the Registered Agent Form. The checklist uses those three lines. This page shows the statute’s “Department of Finance” and the checklist’s “CNMI Treasury.” It does not pick a payee the clerk did not print.

The resources page, checked October 2, 2026, lists a domestic LLC packet as articles of organization, an operating agreement, a Registered Agent Consent Form, and an initial LLC report. A foreign LLC on that same list is articles, an operating agreement, a certificate of authority, a certificate of good standing or existence, and an initial LLC report. That foreign list does not name the consent form. The foreign LLC requirements PDF does. It says a signed Registered Agent Consent Form must be attached. The agent for service of process must be a person or company residing in the Commonwealth with a mailing address. The consent filing fee is $37.50, payable to the CNMI Treasurer. The certificate of authority is $187.50, also payable to the CNMI Treasurer. The packet goes in triplicate: one original and two copies. Mail it to the Registrar of Corporations, Department of Commerce, 1st Floor, P.O. Box 5795 CHRB, Saipan, MP 96950. § 4205(a)(4) titles the $187.50 line “Application for Certificate of Authority for Foreign Corporation.” The foreign LLC sheet uses that same dollar. This page shows both. The statute’s agent line is a street address. The foreign sheet’s agent line is a mailing address. This page does not hide that difference.

§ 109 is how an LLC changes the designated office or the agent. The company delivers a statement of change to the Registrar. The statement gives the company name, the street address of the current designated office, the new office street if the office changes, the name and address of the current agent, and the new agent’s name and street address if the agent changes. The section does not print a dollar. The fee statute does, and it uses corporation words. § 4205(a)(25) prices a corporation’s statement of change of registered agent or registered office, or both, at $18.75. § 4205(a)(22) prices an agent’s own statement of change of registered office, or of resignation, at $7.50. This page shows those statute dollars. It does not add a third change fee the statute does not print.

§ 110 is resignation for an LLC’s agent. The agent delivers a statement of resignation to the Registrar. The Registrar mails a copy to the designated office and another copy to the principal office. The agency terminates on the 31st day after the statement is filed. A corporation’s registered agent uses a parallel clock. § 20-50.1-410 says the agency appointment is terminated on the 31st day after the date the statement was filed. The agent’s own resignation statement is the $7.50 line above. That dollar is the filing fee. It is not a daily penalty.

§ 111 is service of process. Serve the appointed agent. If the company has no agent in the Commonwealth, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the agent’s address, the Registrar of Corporations is the company’s agent. You serve duplicate copies on the Registrar. The Registrar forwards one copy by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the designated office. Service is effected at the earliest of the day the company receives it, the date on the return receipt if signed for the company, or five days after deposit in the mail. § 4205(a)(17) prices service of process served on the Registrar at $150. That $150 is the fee for serving the Registrar. It is not the price of a commercial agent, and it is not the late-report penalty.

A corporation is not the same vocabulary. § 20-50.1-401, in the Business Corporation Regulations PDF checked October 2, 2026, says each corporation must continuously maintain a registered office and a registered agent. The registered office may be the same as any of its places of business. The registered agent may be an individual who resides in the Commonwealth and whose business office is identical with the registered office, a domestic corporation or nonprofit domestic corporation with that same office, or a foreign corporation or nonprofit foreign corporation authorized here with that same office. That list does not say “another limited liability company.” The LLC list in § 108(b) does. The LLC designated office need not be a place of business. The corporation registered office may be a place of business, and the agent’s business office has to match it. This page keeps those two lists apart. It does not use one English word and hide the other.

The yearly paper is a different job. Say it once so the $75 does not get mixed up with the lawsuit. § 211 says an LLC, and a foreign LLC authorized here, delivers an annual report to the Registrar. The report states the name and the jurisdiction, the address of the designated office and the name and address of the agent for service of process, the principal office, and the names and business addresses of any managers. The first report and later reports are delivered in accordance with the corporation rule in 4 CMC § 4693(c) of each year following the calendar year the LLC was organized. If the Registrar sends the report back, a correction delivered within 30 days of the notice is timely. § 20-50.1-1530 is the corporation calendar this page uses. The first corporation report is due within 60 days after incorporation or after a foreign corporation is authorized. Later reports are delivered between January 1 and March 1. The report includes the registered office mailing address and location, and the name of the registered agent. The Commission comment in that PDF says the older regulation section is codified at 4 CMC § 4693. That is why the LLC sentence and the corporation window sit together on this page.

The dollars for that report are not in the regulations PDF’s old fee list. § 4205(a)(14), in the codified PDF checked October 2, 2026, prices the Annual & Initial Corporation Report for a domestic company, a foreign company, a partnership, and an LLC at $75. § 4205(a)(32) prices the penalty for initial reports and annual reports received after March 1st at $112.50. The source line on that PDF says Public Law 21-37, January 7, 2021, amended by Public Law 24-27, March 18, 2026. The Act’s title and findings say the purpose includes removing daily penalty fees. The live section does not print “$10 per day.” Filing the report is the company’s job. It is not the job of taking the lawsuit.

Two older papers still show other dollars. Print them so a reader does not pay the wrong one. The regulations PDF’s fee list still says “Annual report $50.” That list is older than Public Law 24-27. The statute’s $75 is the annual-report fee this page uses. The Registrar’s public-notice page has no deadline in the page text. The PDF linked from that banner, checked October 2, 2026, is a notice about the 2025 Annual Corporation Report. It says you may begin filing as early as January 2, 2026, and that the report is due on Monday, March 2, 2026. It then says a penalty of $150.00 applies to 2025 reports received after March 2, 2026, and that after March 3, 2026 a further $10.00 is charged for each day, not counting weekends, holidays, and government austerity, in addition to the $150.00. March 1, 2026 was a Sunday. Public Law 24-27 was signed March 18, 2026, after that Monday due date. The notice is still the file behind the homepage banner. It is not § 4205(a)(32). A Governor’s reminder dated November 23, 2024 used the same kind of stack for the 2024 report: due March 1, 2025, moved to Monday, March 3, 2025 because March 1 was a Saturday, then $150 after March 3 and $10 a day after March 4. That reminder is history. It cites Public Law 21-37. It is not the March 18, 2026 statute.

The Registrar homepage, checked October 2, 2026, says “Coming Soon to the Registrar’s Portal.” The roadmap marks Phase 2, Testing, as the current phase. Later phases are still labeled Launch, including register a new business, file documents, and a searchable database. This page does not add an online filing. The same page prints the office. Physical address: Department of Commerce, 12054 Pohnpei Way, Capitol Hill. Mailing address: Department of Commerce, P.O. Box 5795 CHRB, Saipan, MP 96950. The Registrar’s message is from John David A. Reyes, Registrar of Corporations. The phone on the homepage is 664-8024. The public-notice PDF prints (670) 664-8024. The email is registrar.reyes@commerce.gov.mp. The message says every business entity except a sole proprietorship files an annual report. The Registrar’s office page says the same, and it says the office is a division of the Department of Commerce. Those lines are the Department. They are not a vendor office. The pages do not print a counter clock. This page does not add one.

Northwest’s national registered-agent page, checked October 2, 2026, shows “$125 Per Year” and “$100/year per state” when the order covers five or more states. The state list names Puerto Rico. It does not name the Northern Mariana Islands. /registered-agent/northern-mariana-islands and /llc/northern-mariana-islands are not registered-agent offers on that site. This page does not add a Northwest address in Saipan, Tinian, or Rota. The national page says, “We scan every document you receive right where you receive it—in our office.” It also says they will scan normal business mail, up to 5 documents a year, free, and it lists a free business address and a free phone line. Those extras are a different service. We do not grade them as the registered-agent job.

Bizee’s national registered-agent page, checked October 2, 2026, says “Receive a Free First Year of Registered Agent” and shows a standalone price of $149/year. It says the company owns and operates offices in all 50 states and does not outsource. It does not say the Northern Mariana Islands. bizee.com/registered-agent/northern-mariana-islands and /llc/northern-mariana-islands/registered-agent are not on the company site, so there is no Northern Mariana Islands price to show. The national page is the one used here. The page says it sends notifications for service of process or state correspondence by text and email, mails those court papers by FedEx with tracking, and uploads documents to a client portal. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064. That address is not a Northern Mariana Islands registered-agent address. Support hours on that page are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central Time. Those are support hours, not a registered office in the Commonwealth.

LegalZoom’s registered-agent overview, checked October 2, 2026, shows $249/year. The footnote says the service auto-renews at the purchase rate each year until you cancel, the renewal rate is subject to change, and the purchase price is only available for first-time registered-agent customers. The footnote does not state a year-two number. The overview says, as a general rule, that a registered agent is a service or a person over the age of 18, available during regular business hours, and that one example of those hours is Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It also says agents must be designated with the Secretary of State’s office. That is LegalZoom’s sentence. § 108 does not state an age or a clock. The filing office here is the Registrar of Corporations. We do not call it a Secretary of State. registered-agent-northern-mariana-islands.html is not on the company site. This page does not add a LegalZoom territory article, a LegalZoom city, or a LegalZoom address. The overview talks about documents scanned and uploaded, email, and a postcard for urgent legal mail. It also says junk mail is filtered. Junk mail is not the job we score.

ZenBusiness’s page at zenbusiness.com/northern-mariana-islands-registered-agent/ is not on the company site, so there is no Northern Mariana Islands price to show. The national registered-agent page is the one used here. It shows a banner, “50% OFF REGISTERED AGENT,” for the first year when you form an LLC. The same page shows $99 plus state fees for the first year and a renewal at $199 a year. Both sentences are on that national page. This page does not say which one a Northern Mariana Islands checkout would charge. The page says the service is for limited liability companies and corporations in all 50 states, and that ZenBusiness currently does not offer registered-agent service to professional limited liability companies or nonprofits. That exclusion is theirs. It is not a sentence in § 108. The page says they scan and upload documents to a dashboard, notify you of legal notices, and overnight urgent legal notices. It does not list a ZenBusiness address in the Commonwealth.

Cited prices, checked October 2, 2026

The prices below are what each company’s own national page showed. The Northern Mariana Islands pages are not on those company sites, so this scorecard uses the national card. This page does not add a renewal the company did not show.

• Northwest Registered Agent: official page: “$125 Per Year,” and $100 a year per state at five or more states. Checked October 2, 2026 on northwestregisteredagent.com/registered-agent. The state list names Puerto Rico. It does not name the Northern Mariana Islands. /registered-agent/northern-mariana-islands and /llc/northern-mariana-islands are not registered-agent offers on that site. This page does not add an address. The same company also says it will scan up to 5 normal business-mail documents a year free. Those extras are a different service. We do not grade those extras as the registered-agent job.
• Bizee: official registered-agent page: free first year; standalone $149/year. Checked October 2, 2026 on bizee.com/business-management/registered-agent. The page claims offices in all 50 states and does not mention the Northern Mariana Islands. /registered-agent/northern-mariana-islands is not on the company site, so there is no Northern Mariana Islands-only price to show. The card does not spell out a separate year-two dollar beyond $149. This page does not add one.
• LegalZoom: official overview: “$249/year.” The footnote says the service auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel, the renewal rate is subject to change, and the purchase price is for a first-time registered-agent customer. The footnote does not state a year-two number. Checked October 2, 2026 on legalzoom.com/…/registered-agent-overview.html. The Northern Mariana Islands article page is not on the company site. The overview publishes no LegalZoom city and no LegalZoom address.
• ZenBusiness: the national registered-agent page, checked October 2, 2026, shows $99 plus state fees for the first year and a renewal at $199 a year. It also shows a 50 percent off first-year offer when you form an LLC. The Northern Mariana Islands page is not on the company site, so there is no Northern Mariana Islands price to show. The page publishes no ZenBusiness address in the Commonwealth.

A change of LLC agent is a statement of change to the Registrar under § 109. That section does not state a dollar. The fee statute prices a corporation’s statement of change of agent or office at $18.75, and an agent’s own change or resignation statement at $7.50. Northwest’s national page does not state a Northern Mariana Islands change dollar. Bizee has no Northern Mariana Islands page that stated a change dollar. LegalZoom has no Northern Mariana Islands article that stated one. ZenBusiness’s national page does not state one. The annual report can name the agent. It is still not the job of taking the lawsuit.

Who publishes a Northern Mariana Islands address

A city is not a street address on the Registrar’s record. This page shows only the addresses the companies publish for registered-agent use. It does not add the rest. The online portal is still marked Coming Soon, so we could not open a public name search. Confirm the agent line with the Registrar before you file. Headquarters is not the registered-agent address. 12054 Pohnpei Way and P.O. Box 5795 CHRB are Department lines. They are not a vendor office. A city on a marketing page is still vendor-claimed until the Registrar shows it.

• Northwest. The national page says the company provides a registered agent. The state list does not name the Northern Mariana Islands. The Northern Mariana Islands links are not registered-agent offers on that site. The national page does not list a Saipan, Tinian, or Rota address or ZIP for a registered office. This page does not add one, and it does not treat 12054 Pohnpei Way as their office. Northwest also sells extra mail scans. Those extras are a different service. There is no city to label yet. Ask the Registrar for the name on your own filing.
• Bizee. Claims owned offices in all 50 states. The official registered-agent page names no Northern Mariana Islands address. The Northern Mariana Islands pages are not on the company site. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064 as headquarters. That address is not a Northern Mariana Islands registered-agent address.
• LegalZoom. We did not find a live Northern Mariana Islands registered-agent article. The official overview publishes no LegalZoom city and no LegalZoom address. This page does not add an office number. It does not treat a LegalZoom virtual-mail address as the registered-agent address.
• ZenBusiness. The Northern Mariana Islands page is not on the company site. The national page publishes no ZenBusiness address or city in the Commonwealth. This page does not treat the Department’s Capitol Hill box as their registered office.

If you are your own agent, the address on the Registrar’s record is the street you put on the form. § 108 lets an individual resident of the Commonwealth, a domestic corporation, another LLC, or an authorized foreign corporation or foreign company take the LLC’s job. The agent needs a street address. The designated office need not be a place of business. A corporation’s registered agent, under § 20-50.1-401, needs a business office identical with the registered office. This page shows both. A commercial mailbox is not a sentence we found in § 108. Northwest’s national page names no Northern Mariana Islands address. Bizee publishes no Northern Mariana Islands address. LegalZoom publishes no city and no address. ZenBusiness publishes no office number. Call the Registrar. Process Score has not been to those offices.

The $75 report, the March 1 window, and the older penalty stack

An LLC in the Northern Mariana Islands keeps an agent for service of process under § 108, with a street address in the Commonwealth, and a designated office that need not be a place of business. Articles are $112.50. The consent form is $37.50. The checklist also prices the operating agreement at $37.50. The annual report and the initial report are $75 under 4 CMC § 4205. Later corporation reports run from January 1 through March 1, and the LLC annual-report section points at that corporation rule. A report after March 1 is $112.50. Public Law 24-27 removes daily penalty fees. The regulations PDF still prints an annual report at $50. The public-notice PDF still prints $150 plus $10 a day for the 2025 report, due Monday, March 2, 2026. The November 23, 2024 Governor reminder printed that same kind of stack for the 2024 report. Those older papers are not the current penalty. A corporation’s change of agent or office is $18.75. An agent’s own change or resignation is $7.50. Service on the Registrar, when there is no agent to hand the papers to, is $150. That $150 is not the commercial-agent price. Northwest’s Northern Mariana Islands links are not offers on that site, and the national card does not name the Commonwealth. Bizee’s Northern Mariana Islands pages are not on the company site. LegalZoom’s Northern Mariana Islands article is not on the company site. ZenBusiness’s Northern Mariana Islands page is not on the company site. This page does not treat a company hours line as § 108.

Service of process, not marketing mail

We grade scan-and-forward of service of process and official notices.

• Bizee: notifications by text and email; court papers mailed via FedEx with tracking; portal upload by employees. The national page claims 50-state offices and does not name the Northern Mariana Islands. Contact-page support hours are Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central Time. Those are support hours, not registered-office hours. The Northern Mariana Islands pages are not on the company site.
• Northwest: “We scan every document you receive right where you receive it—in our office.” The national page does not list a Northern Mariana Islands address or a city. Their extra mail-scan service is a different service. We do not grade those extras as a mailbox.
• LegalZoom: upload, email, and a postcard for urgent legal mail on the national overview. We did not find a live Northern Mariana Islands article, and the overview still publishes no LegalZoom address. Junk-mail handling on the overview is not the job we score.
• ZenBusiness: scan and upload to a dashboard; notice of legal mail; overnight the original for urgent legal notices. Their national service currently excludes professional limited liability companies and nonprofits. That is their exclusion, not § 108. The Northern Mariana Islands page is not on the company site.

Home-address privacy

Naming a commercial agent is how many owners keep a home off the agent line. The Registrar still keeps the agent’s name and street address, and the designated office. The articles and the annual report both ask for them. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. The report also asks for the principal office and for managers’ names and business addresses. The annual fee is a payment, not a mailbox. A blank line is not the same thing as a private line. Confirm the live line with the Registrar. The portal’s searchable database is still a later launch phase. We could not open a public name search on October 2, 2026.

Scorecards

What this page does not do

• It does not rank mailbox networks or virtual offices.
• It does not publish combined star ratings or a fake 4.8.
• It does not treat a company hours line as § 108.
• It does not treat the annual report, or the initial report, as the registered-agent job. The job is taking court papers.
• It does not call the Registrar of Corporations a U.S. Secretary of State.
• It does not call this filing office the Treasurer. That name belongs to American Samoa’s LLC filings.
• It does not call this filing office the Department of Revenue and Taxation. That name belongs to Guam.
• It does not call this filing office the Departamento de Estado. That name belongs to Puerto Rico.
• It does not call this filing office the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. That name belongs to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The registry here is not Catalyst.
• It does not use one English word and hide the other. An LLC names an agent for service of process and a designated office. A corporation names a registered agent and a registered office.
• It does not pretend an LLC may skip the agent. § 108 requires an agent and a street address in the Commonwealth.
• It does not drop the who-may-serve list. § 108(b) prints one: an individual resident, a domestic corporation, another LLC, or an authorized foreign corporation or foreign company.
• It does not pretend the corporation list is the same list. § 20-50.1-401 wants the agent’s business office to match the registered office. It does not say “another limited liability company.”
• It does not hide the fee conflict. The regulations PDF still prints an annual report at $50. § 4205 prints $75.
• It does not treat the public-notice PDF’s $150 plus $10 a day as the current penalty. That PDF is about the 2025 report, due Monday, March 2, 2026. § 4205(a)(32) prints $112.50 after March 1. Public Law 24-27 removes daily penalty fees.
• It does not treat the November 23, 2024 Governor reminder as current law. That reminder used $150 plus $10 a day for the 2024 report.
• It does not treat the $150 fee for service on the Registrar as the price of a commercial agent. That fee is § 4205(a)(17).
• It does not add a change dollar the LLC change section forgot. § 109 states the steps. The statute prices a corporation’s change at $18.75 and an agent’s own change or resignation at $7.50.
• It does not merge the standing window, January 1 through March 1, with the 2025 notice’s January 2 through March 2, 2026.
• It does not add an online filing. The homepage still says Coming Soon, and Phase 2 is Testing.
• It does not treat 12054 Pohnpei Way, or P.O. Box 5795 CHRB, as a vendor office. Those lines are the Department of Commerce.
• It does not treat 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064, as a Northern Mariana Islands address.
• It does not add a Northwest, Bizee, LegalZoom, or ZenBusiness Northern Mariana Islands registered-agent offer. Those territory pages are not on the company sites. Checked October 2, 2026.
• It does not add a Saipan, Tinian, or Rota street the companies did not print.
• It does not treat Northwest’s free mail-scan extra as the registered-agent job.
• It does not treat ZenBusiness’s 50 percent off banner as a Northern Mariana Islands-only price. The national page also shows $99 and $199.
• It does not treat ZenBusiness’s exclusion of professional limited liability companies and nonprofits as § 108.
• It does not treat Bizee’s “all 50 states” sentence as a Northern Mariana Islands address.
• It does not treat Northwest’s state list, which names Puerto Rico, as a Northern Mariana Islands offer.
• It does not add an age of 18. § 108 does not state one. LegalZoom’s overview does. That sentence is theirs.
• It does not add a 9-to-5 clock. § 108 does not state an opening time. LegalZoom’s overview gives an example. That sentence is theirs.
• It does not treat the Governor’s Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. line as the Registrar’s counter. That line sits on the Governor’s November 23, 2024 page, next to (670) 237-2200.

Choosing among being the agent yourself, asking a lawyer, or hiring a commercial agent: DIY vs lawyer vs commercial. Guam’s filing office is a different territory office: Guam scorecard. American Samoa’s filing office is also a different territory office: American Samoa scorecard. The U.S. Virgin Islands filing office is a different territory office: U.S. Virgin Islands scorecard. Puerto Rico’s filing office is a different territory office: Puerto Rico scorecard.