Virginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk

Virginia business entity search

Look up a Virginia corporation, LLC, or nonprofit. Federal filings are searched on this page. The Virginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk keeps the state registry, and the steps below show how to search it.

Federal filings searched here. The Virginia registry record is on the official site.

Virginia registry at a glance

Registry agency	Virginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk
Phone	804-371-9733 (toll free 1-866-722-2551)
Hours	SCC business hours 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday; Clerk's Office in-person service 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., Monday to Friday
Official search	Clerk's Information System Business Entity Search
Registry number	SCC ID (entity ID)

How to search the Virginia registry

The Clerk's Information System Business Entity Search searches by entity name and SCC entity ID.

Open the Business Entity Search in the Clerk's Information System at cis.scc.virginia.gov.
Answer the site's cookie consent screen; the search does not open if cookies are rejected.
Type the entity name or SCC ID and run the search.
Open the entity to see its status, registered agent, registered office and annual report and fee history.
Pay an annual registration fee or file an annual report from the same record if you have a CIS account.

Open the official Virginia search

Three numbers, three agencies

Asking for the wrong number is a common reason a search comes back empty.

Number	Issued by	What it identifies
Federal EIN	Internal Revenue Service	Identifies the business for federal tax. It is the same number in every state.
SCC ID (entity ID)	Virginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk	Identifies the entity's record in the state registry.
Virginia Tax account number	Virginia Department of Taxation	Virginia has no Secretary of State business registry; the SCC holds the record and assigns the SCC ID, while state tax accounts come from Virginia Tax and differ from both the SCC ID and the federal EIN.

What a Virginia status means

Status	What it means
Active	The entity exists or is authorized in Virginia and is current on its annual registration fee and, for corporations, its annual report.
Terminated (automatic)	A Virginia corporation's existence ends by operation of law if its fee or annual report is not in by the last day of the fourth month after the due date.
Canceled (automatic)	A Virginia LLC's existence, or a foreign LLC's registration, is canceled by operation of law if the annual fee is not paid by the last day of the third month after the due date.
Revoked (automatic)	A foreign corporation's authority to transact business in Virginia is revoked by operation of law for the same missed fee or report.

Fees and annual filings

LLC formation	$100 (Articles of Organization, Form LLC1011)
Corporation formation	Charter fee based on authorized shares (see the SCC charter fee schedule)
Annual filing	Annual Report (corporations) and Annual Registration Fee (all entity types)
Annual fee, LLC	$50 annual registration fee (no LLC annual report)
Annual fee, corporation	Annual report has no fee; the stock corporation annual registration fee is $100 for up to 5,000 authorized shares, rising $30 per 5,000 shares to a $1,700 maximum
When it is due	Corporations file the annual report and pay the fee by the last day of the month in which they were incorporated or authorized; LLCs pay by the last day of the month they were organized or registered. The SCC mails an assessment packet about 75 days before.
Late filing	Corporations: 10% of the fee, at least $10. LLCs: $25. Corporations terminate (or foreign ones are revoked) after the fourth month past due; LLCs are canceled after the third month.
Filed with	State Corporation Commission, Clerk's Office (online through CIS)

Nonstock corporations pay $25 a year; LPs and business trusts pay $50 by October 1. Reinstatement is $100 plus unpaid fees. Changing a registered agent or office has no fee.

As published by the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk, checked 2026-10-06. Fees change, and the official schedule decides.

Forming or running a business in Virginia

All registered companies doing business in Virginia must keep a registered agent and a Virginia registered office; the SCC mails the annual assessment packet to that agent.

Virginia businesses on file

The largest organizations with a Virginia address in the federal filings searched here, biggest first.

AMERICAN WOODMARK CORPORATIONEIN 54-1138147
PSI INTERNATIONAL INC.EIN 04-2608935
AMERIVISION COMMUNICATIONS, INCEIN 73-1378798
NATIONAL RURAL UTILITIES COOPERATIVE FINANCE CORPEIN 52-0891669
AEROSPACE CORPORATIONEIN 95-2102389
THE BOEING CO. AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARIESEIN 91-0425694
GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATIONEIN 13-1673581
ADVANCE STORES COMPANY, INC.EIN 54-0118110
LEIDOS, INC.EIN 95-3630868
MAXIMUS, INC.EIN 54-1000588
WILLIS TOWERS WATSON US LLCEIN 53-0181291
DOLLAR TREE STORES, INC.EIN 54-1387365
CGI TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS, INC.EIN 54-0856778
COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATIONEIN 95-2043126
FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPEIN 52-0904874
GUIDEHOUSE INC.EIN 36-4094854
STRIDE, INC.EIN 95-4774688
LEONARDO DRS, INC.EIN 13-2632319
2U, LLCEIN 26-2335939
ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYEIN 54-2061691
TREDEGAR CORPORATIONEIN 54-1497771
IDEMIA IDENTITY AND SECURITYEIN 04-3320515
THE AES CORPORATIONEIN 54-1163725
BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.EIN 54-1693796

All 470 Virginia businesses on file

Sources

Facts on this page come from the official pages below, checked 2026-10-06. A fact that could not be confirmed on an official page is left out.