Obtain a Certificate of Status Quickly and Easily From Ontario Business Central

By obtaining a Certificate of Status for your business, you effectively obtain proof of the official operating status of your organization.

Through the course of your business dealings, a Certificate of Status may be requested for various reasons. A Certificate of Status may be requested by financial institutions or the governing body of an existing professional corporation in Ontario. If you’re branching out into a new jurisdiction, a Certificate of Status may be required to set up a physical location in a foreign jurisdiction.

When the Certificate of Status is generated, it provides three main classifications for the current status of a corporation. They can be either: Active, Dissolved or In Default.

What is required by you to obtain a Certificate of Status?

• Name of Corporation
• Jurisdiction of your Corporation (where the corporation was incorporated)

With these two simple pieces of information of information, we are able to retrieve the Certificate of Status for your corporation within minutes and email you the results.

There are some business types we cannot provide a Certificate of Status for in our databank.

• Banks
• Not-For-Profit organizations located outside of Canada. (Even though they might be registered within the Province of Ontario).
• Foreign Corporations (from outside Canada) which are registered within our borders (The home country of the corporation may assist you with this).
• Insurance companies
• Co-operatives (Contact the Financial Services Commission of Ontario)
• Credit Unions (Contact the Financial Services Commission of Ontario)
• Most condominium corporations in Ontario

If you are looking to obtain a Certificate of Status, Ontario Business Central can help get this to you quickly and sent right to your email inbox.