Free Illinois Courier Service

Your Business Filings Hand-Delivered for Free

Certain Illinois business filings, including most amendments and all applications to register an out-of-state business, can’t be filed online. Your only options are to mail the filing and wait for weeks for it to be processed, or to deliver it in person and ask for expedited processing. This can be a real pain if you don’t live anywhere near the Illinois Secretary of State’s office.

To fix this problem, we offer FREE courier service to our clients. When you hire us for an expedited in-person filing, our staff will personally hand-deliver your filing the same day for no extra charge.

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Our office is located in Springfield, which means our couriers can hand deliver your filing the day you hire us.

Why Illinois Courier Service is Necessary

Illinois courier service isn’t just for fun. Many filings in Illinois take a month to process unless filed in person. Here are a couple reasons you might need courier service:

Your business is based outside of Illinois

If you are registering an out-of-state business, you are probably not here, in Illinois. Since most businesses don’t want to wait a month for their paperwork to go through, they end up hiring a courier service to hand deliver their paperwork to the Secretary of State. But one of the many perks of being our client is that we’ll perform this task for you, for free.

You need to file a time-sensitive amendment

Usually an amendment of any kind is going to be time-sensitive. If you file by mail, the Illinois Secretary of State can often take a month or more to process. Hire us by 2pm CT and we’ll deliver your amendment in person the same business day.

Your new LLC or corporation can’t be registered online

While most Illinois LLCs and corporations can file their Articles of Organization/Incorporation online, some cannot. For example, if you’re starting a professional limited liability company (PLLC) or professional corporation (PC), you will not be able to use the generic business purpose on the online form and will need to submit the paper form. When you hire us to form your company, we’ll hand-deliver your formation paperwork for no extra fee.

Business Services that Require In-Person Expediting

Below is a list of the most common Illinois business services to require in-person Expediting. All of these services can be ordered quickly and easily within the registered agent client account. Just hire us as your state required registered agent, then order any of these services from within your account with the click of a button!

  • Corporation Foreign Registration:
    The Application for Authority to Transact Business form cannot be filed online and can only be expedited in person.

  • Amendments to Articles:
    The LLC Articles of Amendment and corporation Articles of Amendment can only be filed online and expedited for business name changes. All other amendments can only be expedited in person.

  • Amendments to Foreign Filings:
    The LLC Amended Application for Admission and the corporation Application for Amended Authority to Transact Business in Illinois can only be expedited by filing in person.

  • LLC Articles of Organization (in certain cases):LLCs that are required to use a specific business purpose or have special provisions must use the paper Articles of Organization form, so they can only expedite this filing in person. This includes PLLCS (professional LLCs that are formed to perform a licensed service such as medicine, law, social work, etc.).
  • Articles of Incorporation (in certain cases): Corporations that issue more than one class of stock or are required to use a specific business purpose (including professional and medical close corporations) need to file the paper Articles of Incorporation form, so they must also file in person to get expedited processing.

How Our Service Works

Our office is less than a mile from the Secretary of State. We send a courier over daily at 3:00 pm CT. Get your paperwork to us before 2:00 and we’ll get it same day filed. It’s just another way we are head and shoulders above the competition.

How to Order Our Illinois Courier Service

One of the great benefits of hiring us to handle your formation, foreign registration, or amendment filing is that we’ll provide FREE courier service for in-person expedited filing. Plus, we guarantee your document will be filed correctly.

If you’ve signed up for our registered agent service but not for a filing service, you can still use our courier service for just $35 per filing (plus state fees). In this case, you’ll fill out the documents yourself and send them to us, and we’ll deliver them directly to the Secretary of State office.

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