The Department of State has made document certifications for international use available at five additional Integrated Service Centers. #NewsismyBusiness
Every legal entity, domestic and foreign, registered with the State Department must submit information on beneficial owners of companies operating in the United States. #NewsismyBusiness
Secretary of State Marrero emphasizes the importance of the Corporate Transparency Act’s reporting mandate. #NewsIsMyBusiness
The new online platform offers access to laws and regulations dating back to 1902. #NewsIsMyBusiness
The website's new design is design adaptable to computers, mobile phones, and tablets.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced the designation of Omar Marrero as Secretary of State, who if confirmed, would steer two government offices. Marrero, who is currently the executive director of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF, in Spanish), working directly with the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico to finish the restructuring […]
Secretary of State, Larry N. Seilhamer announced Administrative Order 2021-01, which grants an amnesty eliminating fines or penalties imposed on active entities for not filing annual reports or paying their annual fees prior to 2020 on time. The amnesty period begins today and ends Feb.17, 2021 and applies only to active entities. The fine waiver […]
State Department Secretary Elmer L. Román-González announced the extension of the online filing period for corporate annual reports and payments for the year 2019 until May 15, 2020. Given Puerto Rico’s state of emergency and the possibility that the COVID-19 virus could become an epidemic, the government has had to implement extraordinary measures to prevent […]
An estimated 2,867 Puerto Rico corporations got the opportunity to bring their State Department records current without facing penalties during a two-month waiver period the agency granted through April 15, Secretary David Bernier said Wednesday.
In an effort to make its services more accessible to the public, the State Department has reopened its Passport Processing Office located in the Mayagüez Mall. The office had been stripped of its permits to issue passports in September 2012.
The Puerto Rico State Department has a backlog of about 20,000 trademark and corporation registration applications pending review, which it is looking to eliminate this year, Secretary of State David Bernier said Tuesday.
As part of the final phase of the Corporations Registry digitization project, Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock announced Wednesday the start of a five-month grace period so that companies with past-due annual reports can become current.
Just four days before this year’s April 15th filing deadline, the number of corporate annual report filings at the State Department through Sunday had increased by 413 percent in comparison to the same date last year, which Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock attributed to the almost mandatory electronic filing requirement.
The State Department is getting technical assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy to establish a Public Utility Commission in Puerto Rico that would merge the Public Service Commission and the Telecommunications Regulatory Board. The new entity would also regulate the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock told News is my Business.
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