How to Download Articles of Incorporation from the Virginia Secretary of State Website

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Navigate to [https://cis.scc.virginia.gov/EntitySearch/Index](https://cis.scc.virginia.gov/EntitySearch/Index)

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Select "Contains" as your search option

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Insert your organization's legal entity name into the "Entity Name" field

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Click "Search"

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Click on your organization's "Entity ID"

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Scroll down and click "Filing History"

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If necessary, navigate to the earliest documents possible

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Click on the magnifying glass icon in the row labeled "Articles of Incorporation" to download the document

If you are unable to order the necessary documents using this method:

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You'll need to email your Secretary of State requesting these documents directly. To do so, send an email like this to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]): "To whom it may concern, My name is {{insert name}}, and I am the {{insert job title}} for {{insert organization's legal entity name}} ({{insert business entity ID}}). I am reaching out because our organization is enrolling in Apple's developer program to publish an app, and they have requested that we provide them our Articles of Incorporation and any subsequent Articles of Amendment/DBA documentation. Could you please send me electronic and/or physical copies of these documents so that we may move forward with our enrollment in Apple's developer program? Let me know if you require anything else in order to send me these documents. Thank you, {{insert name}}"