VA mortgage broker & lender bonds.
0.6% of the bond amount — $300 at the $50,000 minimum.
Virginia licenses mortgage companies through the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Financial Institutions, and Va. Code § 6.2-1604 requires the license application to be accompanied by a surety bond that is continuously maintained in full force. A company holding both broker and lender authority posts at least $50,000 under 10VAC5-160-15, scaling with the residential mortgage loans it originated last year. Our premium is 0.6% of the bond amount — $300 at the $50,000 minimum, the bond issues the moment you pay, and any credit screen is a soft pull only — it never affects your score.
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The mortgage company bond is an amount-based filing, not an underwriting queue. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Company details, the penal sum from your NMLS record, an effective date, and a term. Any credit screen is a soft pull that never shows as a hard inquiry.
Pay & e-sign
Pricing is 0.6% of the bond amount ($300 at the $50,000 minimum), so the bond issues the moment you pay — your executed bond and power of attorney generate on the spot.
File through NMLS
Upload the executed bond to your NMLS company record for the Bureau of Financial Institutions. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Chapter 16 of Title 6.2 — the Mortgage Lenders and Mortgage Brokers Act — governs anyone who makes or brokers residential mortgage loans in Virginia. Under § 6.2-1604, the license application must be accompanied by a bond, with corporate surety authorized to execute it in the Commonwealth, in the sum of $25,000 or such greater sum as the Commissioner may require, and the bond must be continuously maintained in full force thereafter.
The Commission's regulation, 10VAC5-160-15, fixes the floors: $25,000 for broker-only authority and $50,000 for a lender or for a company with dual broker and lender authority. Above that the amount is adjusted annually on a scale keyed to the residential mortgage loans you originated in the preceding calendar year — $50,000 through $20 million of volume, $75,000 through $50 million, $100,000 through $100 million, and $150,000 above that.
The bond is conditioned on performing your written agreements with borrowers and prospective borrowers, accounting correctly for all funds received in the licensed business, and conducting that business in conformity with the chapter and all applicable law. It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. We track your term and send renewal notices 60 and 30 days out.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — company details, the penal sum, an effective date, and a term. That is the entire application.
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Other Virginia mortgage bonds.
Not sure this is the one your license calls for? These are the other mortgage bonds we write in Virginia. Each has its own statute and bond amount.
- Mortgage Broker Bond (NMLS)The broker-authority bond a Virginia mortgage company files under Va. Code § 6.2-1604 — $25,000 minimum penal sum. 0.6% of the bond amount — $150 at the $25,000 minimum.
- Mortgage Lender Bond (NMLS)The lender-authority bond a Virginia mortgage company files under Va. Code § 6.2-1604 — $50,000 minimum penal sum. 0.6% of the bond amount — $300 at the $50,000 minimum.
- Mortgage Loan Originator BondThe individual originator bond required under Va. Code § 6.2-1703 for a Virginia MLO license — $25,000 minimum, scaling with origination volume. 0.6% of the bond amount — $150 at the $25,000 minimum.
- Qualified Education Loan Servicer Bond ($50,000)The $50,000 bond a Virginia qualified education loan servicer files under Va. Code § 6.2-2604 to license through NMLS. $300 flat.
- Qualified Education Loan Servicer — Federal Contractor Bond ($50,000)The $50,000 bond a federal student loan servicing contractor files under Va. Code § 6.2-2604 for its automatic Virginia license. $300 flat.
Other Virginia bonds.
Get your mortgage company bond on file today.
0.6% of the bond amount — $300 at the $50,000 minimum, issued the moment you pay. Soft pull only.