Just an incomplete post until the 20 dollar fee is paid to get the actual reason for this. Mission not quite complete. Unless that document has already been viewed and the info just isn’t as bad as it seems. I’ll await the COMPLETED investigation. Yeah but.
"Notice Please be aware of an ongoing scam in which newly registered businesses are being instructed to send additional payment in order to obtain a Certificate of Status. Any 3rd party solicitation from a company attempting to represent the ‘Maryland Secretary of State’ via mail or email should be fully vetted before submitting additional payment.
If you applied for a 2-month extension prior to April 17th, the NEW deadline to file an Annual Report is June 15th. Please go HERE to file your Annual Report. A 2-month extension request for filing the Annual Report may be filed here."
Looks like you lit a fire under somebody's keister...
There is a new filing from the comptroller today. My guess is we see the status updated soon. Someone at BIEL must have finally picked up the phone and called to straighten things out.