American Legion membership is based on a calendar-year cycle. Your membership is active from Jan. 1 of each year to Dec. 31 of that year. Normally, during each membership year, the National Headquarters sends five renewal notices for the following membership year, beginning in July and ending in May of the next year. Renewal notices are sent to members until they have paid their membership dues.
Renewal notices are printed and mailed from National Headquarters, but the dues are remitted to the member's post, as printed on the renewal notice. The post membership representative must then process the dues payment, extracting the post per capita. The post will then transmit these membership dues to the respective state headquarters. The state headquarters, called a department, will extract its per capita and then transmit, collectively from all posts within the department, the membership dues to National Headquarters. Within two days of receipt, dues payment information is recorded on the National Headquarters database. Typically, this whole process should only take no more than two to three weeks.
If you have paid your dues but continue to receive renewal notices, or have any other problems or concerns with your membership needs, please read our Frequently Asked Questions page. You may also contact us at ia@legion.org to help you address any specific needs.
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