🇵🇷 Puerto Rico

Overview

AiPrise verifies Puerto Rican businesses against the Puerto Rico Department of State company registry. A business verification returns the company profile and, when listed, incorporators, the agent and officers.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, legal form, status, registered address
Incorporators, agent and officers	Yes, when listed	For example incorporator, agent and president
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, incorporators, agent, officers)	8 seconds	25 seconds

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

Company types

Entities in the Department of State registry are covered.

Company type	Legal forms	Covered	What to expect
Limited liability company	Limited Liability Company	Yes	Profile, and people when listed
Corporation	Corporation	Yes	Profile, and people when listed
International banking or financial entity	International Banking Center, International Financial Entity	Yes	Profile

Sources

Register	What it gives
Puerto Rico Department of State	Company profile, incorporators, agent, officers

Identifiers

Send the legal name in name, or the registry number in business_entity_id, with country_code set to PR.

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
Active	Active

Legal forms come back in entity_type, for example Limited Liability Company and Corporation.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Roles in lowercase	Roles come back in lowercase, for example `incorporator`, `agent` and `president`.
No owners	Shareholders and beneficial owners are not returned. Collect them in your onboarding flow.

Limits

Shareholders and beneficial owners are not available.
The registration date is not returned.