Corporation Reinstatement, Revival, and Revivor Packet - Washington

WASHINGTON CORPORATION REINSTATEMENT, REVIVAL, AND REVIVOR PACKET

Diagnostic packet—not an eligibility promise. Identify the exact status-loss cause, effective date, entity type, and governing route before preparing a filing.

Scope gate. Use for a domestic profit corporation only. Excludes nonprofit, professional, regulated, insolvent, disputed-control, judicially dissolved, merged, converted, and foreign corporations unless counsel supplies the correct route.

1. STATUS RECORD

Attach the official entity record, every status notice, filing history, tax or fee correspondence, articles, amendments, bylaws, stock ledger, and current officer/director record.

2. WASHINGTON ROUTE

Distinguish delinquent status from administrative dissolution. A delinquent corporation may need only its late annual report; § 23.95.615 applies after administrative dissolution under § 23.95.610.

A domestic corporation may apply not later than five years after the dissolution date. The application states the entity name and name compliance, principal office, registered agent and address, dissolution date, and that the grounds did not exist or have been cured. A noncompliant name requires an amendment to the public organic record. The entity must pay every annual license or renewal fee that would have accrued, the rule-based penalty, and the fee for the reinstatement year.

☐ Exact route confirmed from the current official record.

☐ Every statutory and agency deadline calculated from the correct effective date.

☐ Name, registered-agent, annual-report, tax, fee, and penalty issues identified separately.

☐ No voluntary, judicial, merger, conversion, insolvency, or foreign route is being mislabeled as reinstatement.

3. CURE AND FILING INVENTORY

☐ Form, fee, portal, processing instruction, and delivery address rechecked on filing day.

☐ Acceptance confirmed from the official record rather than inferred from payment or submission.

4. EFFECT AND INACTIVE-PERIOD REVIEW

Reinstatement relates back to the administrative-dissolution date and the corporation resumes as if dissolution had not occurred, except for rights arising from reliance on the dissolution before the person knew or had reason to know of reinstatement.

☐ No statement made that reinstatement restores every license, revives every deadline, defeats every defense, or eliminates personal liability.

5. POST-ACCEPTANCE WORK

☐ Official record shows the intended active or good-standing status.

☐ Accepted filing, payment proof, clearance documents, reports, and current entity record saved.

☐ Corporate records, tax and payroll accounts, licenses, banks, insurance, contracts, lenders, permits, and foreign qualifications reviewed separately.

☐ Ongoing annual-report, tax, registered-agent, and governance calendar assigned.

Prepared by: [________________________________]

Authorized reviewer: [________________________________]

Signature: [________________________________] Date: [__/__/____]

SOURCES AND REFERENCES

• Washington Legislature — RCW 23.95.610 and 23.95.615
• Washington Secretary of State — profit-entity reinstatement instructions

Statutes and route verified 2026-07-29; recheck the official record, form, amounts, and filing instructions immediately before submission.