Nevada Foreign Registration / LLC application

The Nevada foreign LLC application, field by field

The Foreign Limited-Liability Company Application for Registration is the form an LLC formed outside Nevada files under NRS 86.544 to register with the Nevada Secretary of State, Commercial Recordings Division; the fee is $75, and it travels with the initial list and State Business License application, $425 in all. We prepare and file it for you for $199, or you can follow the field notes below.

The application at a glance

Statute: NRS 86.544
Fee: $75 (NRS 86.561(1)(a))
Goes in with: Annual or Amended List and State Business License Application: initial list $150, license $200
Home-state certificate: Not attached; the form contains a good standing declaration
Signed by: A manager, a member if there are no managers, or another specifically authorized person
How filed: On paper, by mail or in person; Nevada lists no online route for the foreign application

The fields

Field	What to enter	Notes
Name being registered in Nevada	The name the LLC will use in Nevada	Normally identical to the home name; it differs only when Nevada cannot accept the home name
Foreign entity name	The legal name in the home jurisdiction	Copy it from the formation document
Jurisdiction of formation	The state or country under whose law the LLC was organized	Not where the owners live
Date formed	Formation date in that jurisdiction	From the home state record
Good standing declaration	The signer confirms home-state good standing	A statement of fact (NRS 86.544(2)(c))
Registered agent	One box only: a commercial registered agent, a noncommercial registered agent, or an office or position within the company	Commercial agents by name only; the other two with a Nevada street address
Mailing address of the agent	Only if different from the street address	Street address must be in Nevada
Office at home	The office the LLC must keep in its home state, or its principal office	NRS 86.544(2)(f)
Managers or members	Every manager with an address; if members manage, every member	NRS 86.544(2)(g)
Secretary of State as backup agent	Built into the form	NRS 86.544(2)(e)
Signature	Name, signature and capacity of the person signing	NRS 86.544(2)

The form asks to be typed or printed in dark ink, with nothing highlighted.

What goes with it

The application is never filed alone. Nevada's foreign LLC packet pairs it with the Annual or Amended List and State Business License Application, which holds the opening list of managers ($150) and the business license application ($200). No certificate from the home state is attached, and no operating agreement either. See the initial list and license form notes for that second form.

Paying and sending it

Paper filings go to the Commercial Recordings Division at 401 North Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701-4201; the North Las Vegas office handles expedited filings only. Paying by card means the office's payment authorization, which must include the card's security code; the office rejects card payments that leave it out and does not take card details by email.

How long it takes

Nevada publishes no turnaround for regular paper filings, so we will not quote one. Expedite is the dependable route: 24-hour handling costs between $25 and $125 depending on the filing, 2-hour $500 and 1-hour $1,000, each on top of the filing fees, with the clock starting when the filing arrives in a form that can be filed.

Things that hold up an application

A card payment without its security code, which the office rejects, or card details sent by email, which it does not accept.
More than one registered agent box checked, when the form allows one, or a P.O. box where it asks for a Nevada street address.
No initial list, although the statute makes the list due at the time the application is filed (NRS 86.5461).
A home name that cannot be used in Nevada, with no Nevada name given on the first line.

A declaration of good standing for a company that has lapsed at home is a false statement in a filing, and that is a category C felony in Nevada.

How we file the application for you

You answer the order questions
Company names, formation details, managers and agent choice.
We check good standing and the name
Before anything is signed.
We prepare the packet
Application, initial list and license application.
You sign
A manager, or a member if there are no managers.
We file and send you the record
With the $425 in state fees.

Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year

$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Application questions

Is this the Nevada certificate of authority for an LLC?

It is the registration Nevada uses for foreign LLCs. Some people call the result a certificate of authority; Nevada's statute calls it registration.

Can we register before the LLC starts work in Nevada?

Yes. Nevada requires registration before transacting business, so filing ahead of the first job or lease is the intended order.

Can I change the managers later?

Yes. An amended list updates them; within 60 days of the initial list there is no fee.

We prepare and file the Nevada application for you

Our fee and the Nevada bundle

Register my company in Nevada

Utah or any stateNevada

$199

+ the Nevada bundle

The Nevada application for a foreign LLC, written from your answers
The initial list of managers or members that must accompany it
The State Business License application on the same filing
A Nevada registered agent, provided by us or picked by you
Delivery of the bundle to the state, then your filed record comes back
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

Nevada's registration fee is $75. The initial list adds $150 and the State Business License $200. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Sources

Registering in Nevada?

Send us the LLC and where it was formed.