Securities Registration Statement (simplified Form) (s-3/a)

As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 23, 2017

Registration No. 333- 217499

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

RenovaCare, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Nevada

3841

98-0384030

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code number)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

RenovaCare, Inc.

430 Park Avenue, Suite 702

New York, New York 10022

(888) 398-0202

Thomas Bold

RenovaCare, Inc.

430 Park Avenue, Suite 702

New York, New York 10022

(888) 398-0202

(Address and telephone number

of principal executive offices)

(Name, address and telephone

number of agent for service)

Copies to:

Joseph Sierchio, Esq.

Satterlee Stephens LLP

230 Park Avenue

Suite 1130

New York, New York 10169

Telephone: (212) 818-9200

Facsimile: (212) 818-9606

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this registration statement becomes effective.

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DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “ Post-Effective Amendment ”), filed by RenovaCare, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “ Company ”), removes from registration all of the unsold securities registered under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Number 333- 217499 ) filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2017 and declared effective on May 17, 2017 (the “ Registration Statement ”), pertaining to the registration of an indeterminate aggregate amount of securities.

The Company is terminating all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. The Company, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that were registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant believes that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this post-effective amendment to its registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of New York, State of New York, on October 23, 2017.

	RenovaCare, Inc.

	By:	/s/ Thomas Bold
	Name:	Thomas Bold
	Title:	President and Chief Executive Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer , Director (Principal Executive Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Principal Financial Officer)