Nevada Foreign Registration / Wyoming LLC in Nevada

Nevada registration for a Wyoming LLC

A Wyoming LLC that works in Nevada registers as a foreign LLC under NRS 86.544, paying $425 for the three opening filings (registration, initial list, State Business License), then $350 a year, and keeps filing its Wyoming annual report (at least $60). We file the Nevada packet for $199.

Wyoming and Nevada, year by year

	Wyoming	Nevada
Annual filing	Wyoming annual report (license tax at least $60)	Annual list and business license, $350
First-year extra	Not applicable	Registration $75, paid once
Good standing certificate	$0 online	$50
Registered agent	In Wyoming	In Nevada, separately

Registration follows the work, not the formation state

A Wyoming LLC that runs crews, an office or regular operations in Nevada transacts business here, whatever its formation papers say. What Nevada does exclude is listed in NRS 86.5483: meetings, bank accounts, independent contractors, mail and catalog orders accepted outside the state, and loans and security interests, among others. See the transacting-business page for the full discussion.

What changes on the Nevada side

Nevada adds a public list of managers or managing members every year, filed with a sworn declaration, and a State Business License that renews with it. Owners should budget for both, and for the $75 late fee if the anniversary month slips by.

Completing the application for a Wyoming LLC

The foreign-entity name line takes the name as registered in Wyoming; the Nevada name line repeats it unless that name cannot be used in Nevada. Enter Wyoming as the jurisdiction, then the date the LLC was formed there, and declare good standing only after checking the Wyoming record; a free online certificate makes that easy. The home office line asks for the office the LLC keeps in Wyoming or its principal office.

Agents in both states

The Wyoming agent continues for Wyoming. In Nevada the application needs its own agent, which can be a commercial agent firm, a noncommercial agent at a Nevada street address, or the LLC's own Nevada office if it has one. Our order can supply the Nevada agent.

Taxes and licenses beyond registration

The Nevada Secretary of State handles registration and the State Business License. If the LLC sells taxable goods in Nevada, the Department of Taxation's Nevada Business Registration (TAX-F006) is a separate step, and it asks for the Nevada business ID issued with the license.

Five years in both states

Item	Five-year total
Nevada: registration bundle, then four renewals	$1,825
Wyoming: annual report license tax at its minimum	$300

State charges only, on-time payments, Wyoming at its lowest license tax. Registered agents and our preparation charge are extra.

A Wyoming company with Nevada crews

Picture a Cheyenne contractor that starts sending crews to Reno jobs for months at a time. The work is performed in Nevada by its own people, which is outside the excluded list, so it registers before the first job: the application with Wyoming as the jurisdiction, a commercial registered agent in Nevada, the initial list naming its managers, and the $200 license. Its Nevada anniversary month then sets the date of every later list, and its Wyoming report carries on as before.

If the Nevada work ends

When the Nevada jobs stop for good, cancel the Nevada registration for $100 rather than letting the list lapse. The Wyoming company carries on untouched; only its Nevada record closes.

Signing the Nevada documents

The application and the list are signed by a manager, or by a member if the Wyoming LLC has no managers, or by another person the company specifically authorizes. The list adds a certification that it is true, complete and accurate, so the person signing should know who actually manages the company.

Becoming a Nevada company instead

If the Nevada side grows into the whole business, Articles of Domestication under NRS 92A.270 is Nevada's route for bringing an outside entity under its law, filed along with a Nevada formation filing. Wyoming law decides whether the move is permitted, so ask a Wyoming business lawyer.

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.

Wyoming LLC questions

Does Nevada need anything from the Wyoming Secretary of State?

No attachment. The application states the Wyoming formation details and declares good standing.

Is the Nevada fee different because we are a small Wyoming LLC?

No. The $75 registration, $150 list and $200 license apply to every foreign LLC.

Who receives Nevada notices?

The Nevada registered agent named on the application, including any forfeiture notice if a list is missed.

Can we file the Nevada application online like our Wyoming filings?

Not the foreign application, which Nevada takes on paper. Later annual lists can be filed online.

Registering a Wyoming LLC in Nevada

Confirm Wyoming good standing
The Nevada form declares it.
Choose the Nevada agent
One box on the form.
Prepare the application, list and license
One packet.
File with the fees
$425 in Carson City.
Diary the anniversary month
$350 every year.

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.