🇧🇸 Bahamas

Overview

AiPrise verifies Bahamian businesses against the Registrar General's Department. A business verification returns the company name and legal form.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, legal form
Directors and officers	No
Shareholders	No
Ultimate beneficial owners	No

Document	Returned
Register extract	No
Articles of association	No
Financial statements	No

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification (company data)	7 seconds	25 seconds

These are typical times from production, not a service-level commitment: set timeouts well above them, or use callbacks.

Company types

Local and international companies in the register are covered.

Company type	Legal forms	Covered	What to expect
Local company	Regular (Local) Company	Yes	Profile
International business company	International Business Corporation	Yes	Profile

Sources

Register	What it gives
Registrar General's Department	Company name and legal form

Identifiers

Send the legal name in name, with country_code set to BS.

Statuses and legal forms

Every result carries the register's own status in registration_info.status and an AiPrise status in registration_info.normalised_status. The normalised status is one of Active, Suspended, Dormant, Dissolved / Struck Off, In Liquidation / Insolvency or Unknown.

Register status	Normalised status
(no status)	Unknown

Legal forms come back in entity_type as Regular (Local) Company or International Business Corporation.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
No register status	The register status is not returned, so `normalised_status` is `Unknown`.
No officers or owners	Directors, shareholders and beneficial owners are not returned. Collect them in your onboarding flow.

Limits

Directors, shareholders and beneficial owners are not available.
The status, registration date and registered address are not returned.