Registry coverage across 120 jurisdictions
REGISTRUM indexes the public register of 120 jurisdictions and sorts access into three tiers: direct retrieval, a routed request through a licensed registered agent, and no confirmed route for an applicant outside the country. This page states which tier applies before a certified extract or any other registry document is ordered.
Three tiers of access across the index
The index sorts every jurisdiction into one of three access tiers before any document is ordered. The tier is fixed first, which matters most when a certified extract is wanted ahead of a closing or a filing date, because the tier – not the calendar – decides what is possible at all.
Tier one covers a register that publishes its own extract, or issues one to any applicant on request, without a local intermediary. Register name, issuing authority, retrieval channel, format of the extract – four fields, no further assumption made. No further step, no additional office, no separate fee beyond what the register itself states. A corporate secretary in this tier orders the document directly and receives what the register itself would hand over at the counter.
Tier two covers a register that exists and is maintained, but a foreign applicant reaches it through a licensed registered agent in the jurisdiction rather than directly. The agent requests the extract under local procedure. REGISTRUM confirms the route and the fee before the order is placed, not after. Fee, format, language of issue, whether the agent countersigns – four further fields a tier two entry adds, none of them assumed until the agent confirms them. Where the key to the record is a company number rather than a name, the agent route usually narrows the wait rather than removing it.
Tier three covers a register where no route has been confirmed for delivery to an applicant outside the jurisdiction. The register may exist in name. Whether an extract can be produced for someone abroad is a separate question, and for these entries the current answer is: not yet confirmed. This tier is not a gap in the index. It is what the index is for – naming the boundary before a reader spends time on an order that cannot be filled. A reader working to a fixed date does better to learn this before choosing a jurisdiction than after.
Each jurisdiction's page in this index states its tier and the document families it produces. Where a price is shown at all, it is shown as price on request rather than a fixed figure, because a fee that changes with a routed step should not be quoted as though it did not.
Where the register is closed to a foreign applicant
Tier three is the honest position for a number of entries in this index: the register exists, but no confirmed channel currently returns an extract to someone outside the country. That is stated here, not left for an order form to discover.
A closed entry does not mean the underlying company, land parcel or insolvency case is unrecorded. It means the route from outside the jurisdiction to a certified copy has not been established to a standard REGISTRUM will state as fact. Where a licensed registered agent in the jurisdiction could attempt a request under local procedure, that attempt is described as unconfirmed, not offered as a service today.
A closed tier is not a judgement on any entity within the register. The register's own accessibility rules decide the tier, not the standing of a company or an individual recorded in it. Nor is a closed tier permanent by design; a route that is unconfirmed today is checked again as the primary source is reviewed.
The index does not remove a closed entry once tier three is assigned; it stays listed, with the tier stated, so a reader planning a filing can rule the jurisdiction in or out before a deadline is fixed around it. Access status for any single entry is reviewed against the primary source before the page is marked otherwise; until then, the general form stands.
How a document from the index is used abroad
A certified extract ordered through this index is typically produced to be shown to a second party outside the jurisdiction that issued it: a bank completing due diligence on company records, a foreign registrar accepting an incorporation filing, or a court requiring proof of a company's current status. The receiving party sets its own rules on age, form and certification; REGISTRUM's role stops at delivering what the issuing register produced.
Where the receiving jurisdiction requires legalisation, the chain runs through the issuing country's own apostille or consular process, not through REGISTRUM. An apostille certifies the signature and seal on a document, not the truth of what the document states. This distinction matters more than it first appears, because a rejected document is more often a form problem than a content problem.
Reuse of an extract – filing it with more than one recipient, or holding it on file for a later filing – depends on the terms the issuing register sets. These vary between a single-use certified copy and an extract free to circulate once issued. This index states the reuse position where it is confirmed and leaves the field general where it is not.
Access barriers a foreign applicant meets across the index
A national identifier, a local electronic signature, or a requirement to appear in person at a counter recur as barriers across tier two and tier three jurisdictions. None of these is unusual within the jurisdiction itself; each is an ordinary requirement of a domestic system that was not built with an outside applicant in mind.
Where a licensed registered agent bridges the barrier, the agent supplies what the applicant lacks – a local address, a local signature, standing before the register – under that jurisdiction's own procedure. REGISTRUM names this route generically, since no single agent is affiliated with REGISTRUM in any jurisdiction.
The barrier itself is stated on each jurisdiction's page in this index. Where it has not yet been confirmed against the primary source, the page says so rather than assuming it matches a neighbouring jurisdiction's rule. A barrier confirmed for one register in a jurisdiction is not assumed to hold for a different register in the same jurisdiction.
What does REGISTRUM cover?
REGISTRUM covers registry documents from the public register of each of 120 jurisdictions, organised by document family – company records, land records, insolvency filings, and civil or commercial court records where these sit in a register rather than a court file. Each jurisdiction's page states which families exist there and which tier of access applies to a foreign applicant.
How current is this information?
Each jurisdiction's tier and coverage is checked against the register's own published rules before publication and reviewed on a schedule after that. Where a specific fee, deadline or access rule has not yet been confirmed, the page states the general position rather than a figure that has not been checked, and the entry is marked for review rather than presented as settled.
Can a document be obtained from any jurisdiction?
No. Some registers have no confirmed route for delivering an extract to an applicant outside the jurisdiction, and these are marked as closed in this index rather than left silent. Where the route exists but runs through a licensed registered agent, the fee and the form of the extract are confirmed before an order is accepted, not assumed from a neighbouring jurisdiction's rule.
How is a jurisdiction's tier decided?
The tier reflects whether the issuing register delivers directly to any applicant, requires a routed step through a registered agent, or has no confirmed channel for someone outside the country. It is set from the register's own published access rules, not from how quickly an order is expected to be completed.
What happens if a document turns out to be unavailable?
If a route that looked confirmed does not hold once checked against the register directly, the order is not taken and no fee already stated is charged. The jurisdiction's page in this index is then reviewed and, where needed, moved to a different tier.
Does the index show a price for every jurisdiction?
No. A number of entries show price on request rather than a figure, because the fee depends on which tier applies and, in tier two, on the registered agent's own charge for the routed step. A figure is shown only once the fee has been checked against the issuing authority or agent directly.
Tell us the jurisdiction and the record you are after; we return the route, the issuing authority and the limit before any fee is agreed. If the document does not exist in this jurisdiction or cannot be obtained for you, we say so before you pay and we do not take the order.
REGISTRUM obtains and delivers official records issued by public registers and licensed registered agents. This page describes what those records contain and how they are obtained. It is not advice on the legal effect of any record. To order, write to info@registrumfirm.com.