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Mailing the Wyoming foreign LLC registration yourself

Any company can file its own Wyoming registration, and the only route is paper. The fee is $150, the home certificate has to be an original dated within 60 days, and the state allows up to fifteen business days after the date of receipt for review.

What goes in the envelope

Four things: the completed application, the registered agent's signed consent page, an original certificate of existence or good standing, dated not more than sixty days before the filing in Wyoming and authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official who keeps company records where the company was formed, and a check or money order payable to Wyoming Secretary of State. Nothing is filed online.

Check the name against the endings

A Wyoming LLC name carries one of these endings: Limited Liability Company, LLC, L.L.C., Limited Company, LC, L.C., Ltd. Liability Company, Ltd. Liability Co., or Limited Liability Co. If the home name cannot be used, a Use of Fictitious Name form goes with the application.

Find the agent and the street address

The agent is an individual who is at least eighteen, lives in Wyoming and keeps a business office at the registered office; a Wyoming business entity or a foreign entity authorized to do business there, with its office at the registered office and a written agreement with an individual to accept service; or a commercial registered agent registered with the Secretary of State. The registered office is a street address in Wyoming where the agent, or an individual with an agency relationship to the agent, is physically present to accept service. The registered agent must have a physical address in Wyoming; if the office has a suite number it must be included; a drop box is not acceptable and a PO box is acceptable only in addition to a physical address.

Fill in the application

It asks for the name of the company as organized; the state or country of its law; the date it was organized, which must match the certificate; its period of duration; its mailing address; its principal office address; the name and physical Wyoming address of its registered agent; its acceptance of the Wyoming constitution; and the date it began, or will begin, doing business in Wyoming. Write the organization date from the certificate, not from memory.

Have the agent complete the consent

The consent page is a separate form that the agent signs and dates, and the agent adds a daytime phone, a title and an email address.

Order the certificate last

Ask the home office for an original, authenticated by the official who keeps company records where the company was formed. The date must be no more than 60 days before the filing in Wyoming.

Name endings and the fictitious name form

Check the ending before anything else, since a name that lacks one cannot be filed. When the home name is not available in Wyoming, the Use of Fictitious Name form accompanies the application and the company trades under that name here.

The email address

Each entity and each registered agent must keep an email address the Secretary of State can use to serve documents, and the form says an email address is required in the cases the registered-agent statute describes. Give one that someone reads.

Sign and mail

The application is signed by a member, a manager or another authorized individual named in the operating agreement. Mail the packet to Wyoming Secretary of State, Herschler Building East, Suite 101, 122 W 25th Street, Cheyenne.

Pay by check or money order

The payment is $150, made out as a check or money order payable to Wyoming Secretary of State.

Watch the queue

Mail is reviewed in the order received, and the state allows up to fifteen business days after the date of receipt. The Secretary of State's online business site shows the day currently being processed.

After the certificate arrives

Keep it with the company's records. The yearly report falls on the first day of the month in which the entity registered or qualified, each year, with a floor of $60 for the license tax.

What a self-filed packet costs

The state fee is $150. The home certificate is priced by the home state. An outside agent adds a charge. There is no online-filing discount, because there is no online route.

If the company worked in Wyoming first

The application warns about back taxes and penalties, and the statute puts the cost at all the fees and license taxes that would have been imposed had the company applied and received a certificate and then filed every report, with eighteen percent interest, plus a penalty of five thousand dollars, reasonable audit expenses and reasonable attorney fees. Filing now does not cancel what has accrued. The penalty page has the sums.

Where mailed packets stall

A packet can stall on five points. The certificate is a copy, or too old. Its date does not match the application. The agent address is a drop box. The consent page is unsigned. Or the form is incomplete, which the office cannot process.

Doing it in a sensible order

Settle the name and the agent first. Fill in the application. Get the consent signed. Then order the certificate, so its date sits well inside the window on mailing day. Mail the packet the day it arrives, with the check.

Keep a copy

Copy the whole packet before it goes. The original certificate leaves with the application, and a copy is the only record you hold of what was sent.

Choosing a delivery method

The state asks for the packet by mail. A tracked service shows the day it reaches Cheyenne, and the office's online site then shows where the day's processing has reached.

Registered agent changes after the fact

An agent who moves is reported with the appointment of a new registered agent and office, for $5, or an information update at $5 per entity. Report within 30 days: failing to do so is a ground for revocation.

If you prefer us to do it

Handing it to us costs $199 plus the state fee. We collect the details, finish both pages, set the certificate order date and put the packet together.

A mailed Wyoming registration, step by step

Collect the details
Name, home state, addresses, agent.
Check the name ending
Use a Wyoming LLC ending.
Get the consent signed
The agent completes the consent page.
Order the original certificate
Dated inside 60 days of mailing.
Sign and enclose the fee
A check or money order for $150.
Mail it and track the queue
Watch the processing day online.

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.

Filing by mail questions

Can I file online?

No. Wyoming takes a foreign LLC's certificate of authority by mail.

How long does the state take?

Up to fifteen business days after the date of receipt, in the order mail is received.

Do I need an original certificate?

Yes: an original from the home office, dated inside 60 days.

Who signs the consent page?

The registered agent.

How do I pay?

Check or money order payable to Wyoming Secretary of State.

Can I choose a fictitious name?

Yes, with the fictitious name form, if the home name is unavailable.

What if the form is incomplete?

The office cannot process it.

The price

Register in Wyoming

The Wyoming application and the agent consent form, completed from a short questionnaire
A cut-off date for ordering your home certificate, so it is still inside the window when the packet leaves
A Wyoming registered agent with a street address, from us or of your choosing
The certificate of authority Wyoming issues, forwarded to you
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

Wyoming

$199

+ $150 Wyoming fee

$150 is what Wyoming charges an LLC. Other entities pay other amounts, listed on the cost page. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

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Working in Wyoming already?

Start the packet today. The state's penalty clock runs for every year the company works without authority.