Wyoming Foreign Registration › Registered agent
Who can be the Wyoming registered agent for a foreign LLC
Appointing a new registered agent and office costs $5, and every foreign LLC in Wyoming needs an agent of record, from the kinds listed below. Our firm can be the agent, or you may name any qualified person.
What the statute requires
Every business entity, foreign or domestic, must keep a Wyoming office and agent of record without a break. 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.
Where the registered office can be
It 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.
Agent paperwork and its price
| Situation | Filing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| You switch agent or office | Appointment of a new agent and office | $5 |
| The agent moves or renames itself | Registered agent information update, each entity | $5 |
| The agent quits | Resignation, each entity | $5 |
| The LLC is left with no agent | Revival for no registered agent | $350 |
A commercial registered agent
The third kind of agent is a commercial one: a business serving as registered agent for more than ten entities, registered as a commercial registered agent under W.S. 17-28-105.
The contact person who is not the agent
Each entity also gives its agent, or the Secretary of State, the name, mailing and physical address and business telephone number of an officer, director, member, manager, partner or trustee who is authorized to receive communications from the agent. The agent cannot fill the role unless it is also an officer, director, member or manager.
What the agent does
Each agent must accept service, keep the address of record where process is delivered, and hold at the registered office the information the statute lists for each domestic entity it serves.
The email address
Every entity and every agent keeps an email address the Secretary of State can use to serve documents.
If there is nobody to serve
With no agent, or an agent who cannot be served with reasonable diligence, the entity may be served by registered or certified mail to its principal office, and service is complete on the earliest of receipt, the return receipt date, or five days after mailing.
Reporting a change
Report an agent change, a resignation or a closed office to the Secretary of State inside 30 days, or the certificate is open to revocation. An entity with neither agent nor office already has a ground against it.
The agent after a revocation
A revoked certificate does not end the agent's own authority.
Three ways to qualify
A Wyoming resident working from the registered office qualifies. So does a Wyoming business, or a foreign one authorized here, based at that office. And so does a commercial registered agent. A company with no Wyoming presence therefore needs a local person or a commercial agent.
The consent page
The application travels with a Consent to Appointment by Registered Agent, signed by the agent, certifying the agent meets W.S. 17-28-101 through 17-28-111. We complete the page for the agent to sign.
Our side of it
Our firm can be your Wyoming agent, though you may appoint anyone qualified. Either way the application carries the name and address, and the agent signs the consent page.
Agent questions
Who can act as agent?
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.
What does it cost to name a new agent?
$5.
Can the office be a PO box?
Only as an addition to a street address. A drop box is not allowed.
How soon must the state hear of a change?
Within 30 days.
What does it cost an agent to resign?
$5 per entity affected.
What if the company has no agent at all?
It risks revocation, and reviving an LLC for that reason costs $350.
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
$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.
Sources
- Wyoming Secretary of State, Business Division fee schedule
- Wyoming Secretary of State, foreign LLC application for certificate of authority and instructions
- W.S. 17-16-1503, application for certificate of authority
- Wyoming Secretary of State, should I apply for a certificate of authority
- Wyoming Secretary of State, foreign profit corporation application for certificate of authority
- W.S. 17-28-101, registered office and registered agent
- W.S. 17-28-104, service on business entity
- W.S. 17-28-107, duties of the registered agent and the entity
- W.S. 17-16-1530, grounds for revocation
- W.S. 17-16-1531, procedure for and effect of revocation
Working in Wyoming already?
Start the packet today. The state's penalty clock runs for every year the company works without authority.