If your company is a foreign private issuer reporting in the U.S., Form 6-K is how you keep the SEC and your investors current between annual reports. We prepare and furnish your 6-K filings on EDGAR, including converting mining technical reports into compliant submissions.
Form 6-K is the "current report" that foreign private issuers (FPIs) use to provide ongoing information to the SEC, the rough counterpart to a domestic company's 8-K and 10-Q combined. It's required under Exchange Act Rules 13a-16 and 15d-16.
Send us the material you're releasing, such as financial results, a press release, a technical report, and we format it, send you a proof, and furnish it to EDGAR in English on your behalf. New to EDGAR? See our Form ID & EDGAR access guide.
Volume rates for active issuers. Revisions to the proof are included.
A 6-K is furnished to the SEC rather than filed. It's a small word with real consequences:
The Exchange Act's Section 18 liability for false or misleading statements attaches to documents that are filed, not to those merely furnished.
A 6-K isn't automatically incorporated by reference into registration statements. It becomes "filed" only if the issuer expressly incorporates it (for example, into a Form F-3).
An FPI must furnish whatever material information it:
Information it makes (or must make) public under the laws of its home country.
Information it files with a foreign stock exchange that the exchange makes public.
Information it distributes to its security holders.
In practice that means interim and half-year financial results, press releases, dividend notices, material acquisitions or changes in control, amendments to constating documents, and other material developments.
The 6-K is your interim report between annual filings. FPIs file their annual report on Form 20-F; eligible Canadian issuers may use Form 40-F under the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS).
FPIs are exempt from Forms 10-Q and 8-K; the 6-K is the ongoing disclosure vehicle in their place.
There's no fixed day-count like the 8-K's four-business-day rule. A 6-K must be furnished promptly after the material is made public, whether at home, with a foreign exchange, or to shareholders.
Need to correct or update a prior 6-K? It's furnished as a 6-K/A.
Under SEC rules, any non-U.S. issuer (other than a foreign government) is an FPI unless both of the following are true:
Status is generally tested on the last business day of the second fiscal quarter. On the horizon: in a June 2025 concept release, the SEC asked for public comment on whether to narrow the FPI definition. It's a review at this stage, not a rule change, but worth watching if you rely on FPI status.
Rules and SEC systems change; we track these sources so your filings stay current.