Determine the Status of My Filing

Jump to sections:

• Filing date of electronically-transmitted submissions 
• Obtaining status of filings
• Accessing submission information
• Submission information
• Retrieving submission notification
• Retrieving module/segment information
• Module information
• Deleting modules
• Segment information

Filing Date of Electronically-transmitted Submissions

EDGAR's hours of operation are 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except for federal holidays.

If you begin transmitting a live submission to EDGAR at or before 5:30 p.m. ET on a day that EDGAR is operating, and it is accepted by EDGAR, the submission will receive that day’s filing date.  

Most live submissions that begin transmission after 5:30 p.m. ET on a day that EDGAR is operating and are accepted by EDGAR will receive a filing date of 6:00 a.m. ET the next business day and will not be disseminated by EDGAR until the next business day.  

The following submission types transmitted after 5:30 p.m. ET and before 10:00 p.m. ET on a day that EDGAR is operating, and accepted by EDGAR, will receive a filing date of the date transmitted and will be disseminated by EDGAR until 10:00 p.m. ET on that date: 3, 3/A, 4, 4/A, 5, 5/A, 144, 144/A, F-1MEF, F-3MEF, F-4MEF, N-14MEF, N-2MEF, POS 462B, S-11MEF, S-1MEF, S-3MEF, S-4MEF, and S-BMEF.

Obtaining Status of Filings

EDGAR sends acceptance and suspense messages to the email address listed in the filer’s Company Contact Information form on the EDGAR Filing Website, if valid. Your company contact email address will always receive an acceptance/suspense message when you submit a filing, unless you activate the Notify Via Filing Website check box.

If you use the Notification page on your submission template to list additional email addresses, EDGAR will forward acceptance and suspense messages to all specified email addresses on a filing-by-filing basis.

All email addresses have a maximum length of 80 characters. Only valid EDGAR characters are accepted for email addresses. We also recommend that you do not use the double quote (") character in an email address.

You cannot be sure EDGAR has accepted your submission until you receive an acceptance message. You have not made an official filing unless your acceptance message includes a filing date. See Messages Reported by EDGAR for more information.

The EDGAR Filing Website also provides a quick way to check the status of your submission. Log in to the website and query for information on your submission (see below for Retrieving Submission Notification). Please note:

• You must use the Notification page for all filer-directed notifications for a specific filing.
• The following information will not appear in email notifications for test or suspended live filings:
  • Subject-company name 
  • Subject-company central index key (CIK) number
  • Form type

Note that when you download your notifications from the EDGAR Filing Website, the subject-company name, CIK, and form type appears in the body of the notice.

If you wish to permanently change the filer's contact email address, then edit the Company Contact Information form by using the Company Update Process. See Maintain and update company information for more information.  

When submitting filings after 5:30 p.m., ET, we recommend that you retrieve submission information on the EDGAR Filing Website to inquire about your submission status.

Accessing Submission Information

You can access information on a submission using the EDGAR Online Forms Website:

1. Log in to the EDGAR Online Forms Website.
2. Click the Retrieve/Edit Data link.
3. The Retrieve/Edit Data page appears and prompts you to enter your CIK and CIK confirmation code (CCC) information:
   • Enter your CIK in the CIK field and press Tab. 
   • Enter your CCC in the CCC field. 
   • Click the Continue button.

This page verifies that you have access to retrieve or edit information on the EDGAR system.

The next page is the Retrieve/Edit Company and Submission Data page. The screenshot below displays the functions you can access.

Submission Information

Retrieve Submission Information allows you to verify and retrieve information about any submission in EDGAR that is associated with that login CIK. Information will be returned only for submissions where the CIK (identified in the upper left corner of the Retrieve/Edit Company and Submission Data page) is either the Filer CIK or Login CIK of the related submission.

Access to submission status information depends upon certain time variables. In general:

• Test filing information will only be available for two business days.
• Suspended filing information will be available for six business days.
• Accepted live filing information will be available for thirty business days.

Retrieving Submission Notification

Once you have logged into EDGAR and accessed the Submission Information Retrieval page, you can access submission notifications for your CIK:

1. Click the ‘Retrieve Submission Information’ link. The Retrieve Submission Information page appears.
2. Enter query parameters for any or all of these three fields:
   • Enter the accession number of the filing you are looking for in the Accession Number field. This query screen does not accept wild card characters. To retrieve all submissions, leave the Accession Number field blank.
   • Choose the type of submission you are looking for: Test, Live, or Both from the Transmission Mode field.
   • Choose the date range in which the submission was transmitted: Today, Within 5, 10, or 30 Days from the Receipt Date Range field.
3. Click the Get Information button.

EDGAR retrieves a list of submissions associated with your CIK using the criteria you entered above.

Note that if the information you enter does not retrieve any submissions, you can click the Back button and enter different information.

When the Submission Information page appears, a list of filings displays. Click the accession number hyperlink to retrieve the Submission Notification page. This page displays the email notification that the email recipients received. You can print this page for future reference using your browser’s printing function.

Retrieving Module/Segment Information

When you are creating a submission and want to include a reference to a module or segment, you can verify that it is available on EDGAR by using the Retrieve Module and Segments page on the EDGAR Filing Website:

1. Log in to EDGAR and access the Retrieve/Edit Company and Submission page. See Maintain and update company information for more information.
2. Click the Retrieve Module/Segment Information link.
3. The Module/Segment Information page appears. Click one of the two links to access the module or segment information page:
   • Retrieve Module Information
   • Retrieve Segment Information

Module Information

When you click the Retrieve Module information page to access the Module Information page, EDGAR displays a list of all the modules currently residing on EDGAR for your CIK. The list contains the names and dates the modules were posted.

Use your browser’s print function to print this list for future reference in your submission documents.
 
Note that you cannot view the contents of a module or segment from this page.

Deleting Modules

Because modules are stored on EDGAR indefinitely, from time to time you may need to update modules on EDGAR. To replace a module, delete the existing module, and then submit the new module with the same name.

1. Log in to EDGAR and access the Module/Segment Information page.
2. Click the Retrieve Module Information link. The Module Information page appears.
3. Click the Yes button at the bottom of this page to open the Delete Module page.

On the Delete Module page, a list of your modules is displayed in the Select Module to Delete list.

1. Scroll down the list and select the module you want to delete by clicking it.
2. Click the Delete Module button.

The Module Delete Confirmation page appears listing the module name and confirming you want to delete the listed module from EDGAR.

1. Click the Confirm Module Deletion button to delete the module.
2. Click the Cancel Changes button to cancel the deletion, and return to the Company and Submission Information Retrieval page.

The Delete Module Results page appears confirming your module has been deleted. Return to the Delete Module page to remove any additional modules. Once your module has been deleted from EDGAR, you cannot restore it. You will have to prepare and resubmit the module using the Module/Segment template.

Segment Information

Because segments are stored on EDGAR for only six (6) business days, you do not need to delete them. However, you can check to verify that a segment is still residing on EDGAR:

1. Log in to EDGAR and access the Module/Segment Information Page.
2. Click the Retrieve Segment Information link. The Segment Information page appears with a list of all the segments related to your CIK.

You can print this page using your browser’s printing function for future reference.

This page displays the Segment Name and the Receipt Date. Remember you have six business days from the time EDGAR receives your segment to reference it in your submission. If you do not use the segment within six business days, you will have to resubmit it.