A registered agent is the person or company you name to receive legal and government mail on your business's behalf at a physical address in the state where you form. Every US LLC and corporation must have one, and it must keep regular business hours so service of process and state notices never get missed.
How a Registered Agent Works
The agent is your company's official point of contact with the state.
They must have a physical street address (not a PO box) in the formation state and be available during business hours to accept service of process — lawsuits, subpoenas — and government correspondence like annual report reminders and tax notices. When something arrives, the agent forwards it to you and timestamps it, creating the paper trail the state expects. You can be your own agent if you have a qualifying in-state address, but most founders hire a commercial agent for ~$50–$200/yr.
Name the agent on your formation documents, and update the state if you ever switch providers.
Why It Matters for a Global or India Founder
If you live in India, you cannot legally be your own agent for a US entity — you have no in-state address.
That makes a commercial registered agent non-optional for a Wyoming LLC or Delaware C-Corp formed from abroad. It is also your early-warning system: miss a forwarded state notice and your entity can fall out of good standing, which stalls banking and financing. The agent is a small recurring cost that sits alongside your EIN setup and annual filings like Form 5472, so budget all three together when you are nine and a half hours away.
Where StableCorp Fits
StableCorp provides the registered agent as part of forming your Wyoming LLC or Delaware C-Corp, then keeps the recurring state filings on the calendar so nothing lapses.
From there we take you through EIN, a US bank account, and compliant USDC rails so you can get paid by US clients and off-ramp to INR on the right purpose codes — compliant rails, not a grey area. See pricing for the full breakdown.
This is general information, not legal advice. Registered-agent requirements are set by each state; confirm the current rules on your Secretary of State's website.
Sources
Wyoming Secretary of State — Registered Agents — https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/RegisteredAgent.aspx
Delaware Division of Corporations — Registered Agents — https://corp.delaware.gov/agents/