NYC process server bonds.
$600 for the full 2-year term.
If you serve five or more legal papers a year in New York City, DCWP requires a fixed $10,000 bond — and the license runs on a two-year cycle, so this bond is issued for the full two-year term. At our flat 3% that's $600, and the application is five minutes.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Your details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with DCWP
Your executed two-year bond arrives by email, naming DCWP as certificate holder, ready to file with your process server license application or renewal. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300 per year. DCWP issues this bond for the full two-year license term, so the price is $300 × 2 = $600. No 1-year or 3-year option — the term matches the license.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
A process server bond is a public-protection guarantee. You serve the legal papers that start lawsuits, evictions, and judgments — DCWP wants a financial backstop that you'll serve honestly and follow the law, so that nobody is harmed by a false affidavit or improper service.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of New York through DCWP (the obligee), with the public as the protected parties. If a server violates process-serving law and someone is harmed, they can recover against the bond.
The bond covers the full two-year license term. NYC process server licenses run on a two-year cycle, and DCWP requires the bond in effect for the duration of the license — so this bond is issued for the whole term, not annually. We track your expiration and notify you ahead of renewal.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one. Note: this bond is issued for the full two-year license term.
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If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$600 for the full two-year term, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.