New Mexico Foreign Registration/The application
The New Mexico foreign LLC registration application, requirement by requirement
A foreign LLC files an Application for Registration as a Foreign Limited Liability Company in New Mexico for $100. The statute, section 53-19-48, lists seven things the application must set forth. Preparing it for you costs $199.
The application at a glance
- Title
- Application for Registration as a Foreign Limited Liability Company
- Statute
- NMSA 1978, section 53-19-48
- Things it must set forth
- 7, lettered A to G
- Filing fee
- $100
- Signed by
- a person with authority to do so under the laws of the state or other jurisdiction of its organization
- Attachments
- Home certificate, current within 30 days; the agent's signed acceptance
- Filed with
- New Mexico Secretary of State, Business Services Division
- Channel
- Online only
What this filing is
Registration gives a foreign LLC permission to transact business in New Mexico. The company's home state keeps deciding how it is set up and run and what its owners and managers can be held to, and a mismatch between the two states' rules cannot block registration. What New Mexico checks is narrow: that the application is complete, that the certificate is current, and that the name and agent meet its rules.
A: the name
State the company's name and, if it is different, the name it will use in New Mexico. The name can differ from the home name, as long as a New Mexico LLC could register it. Most filers enter the home name exactly as the certificate shows it, which spares any question about mismatch.
B: where and when it was organized
Give the state or other jurisdiction of organization and the date of organization. Copy both from the certificate you will attach, because the office reads the application against it. The date is the one the home state's records show, not the date the company started trading.
C: the registered agent
Give the agent's name and New Mexico address. The agent has to be an individual resident of New Mexico, or a domestic or foreign corporation, LLC or partnership that has a place of business at the registered office. The agent's original signed statement accepting the appointment goes with the application; in the portal it is a PDF upload. Without that statement, the filing is incomplete.
D: the Secretary of State as backstop agent
One statement names the Secretary of State as the fallback agent for service of process. It applies if an agent resigns and nobody replaces them, if the agent's authority is withdrawn, or if reasonable diligence cannot locate the agent. It is boilerplate, but it must be present.
E: the home-state office
Give the address of the office the company's home state obliges it to keep. If that state has no such rule, give the principal office instead. A Delaware LLC enters its Delaware registered office; where there is no office rule, the address is wherever the business is run from.
F: the statement that it is a foreign LLC
The application states that the company is a foreign limited liability company as section 53-19-2 defines the term. It is a one-line declaration on the application.
G: who manages the company
Identify the persons in whom management of the foreign LLC is vested. For a manager-managed company that means the managers; for a member-managed company, the members. This is the item that changes most often afterward, and the Act requires the registration to be amended whenever the answer changes.
The signature and the copy
The application is signed by a person with authority to do so under the laws of the state or other jurisdiction of its organization. The statute's wording asks for an original signed application with a copy, which may be a photocopy of the signed original or a conformed copy. The portal takes documents as PDF uploads, which stands in for paper copies. We upload a clean signed PDF and keep the original.
The home-state certificate
Attach a certificate of good standing and compliance issued by the proper official of the home state. It must be current within 30 days, and unexpired at the moment the Secretary of State receives it. A certificate that was current when you ordered it can fail this test if the filing waits.
Paying the fee and receiving the record
Payment of $100 is made online by a credit or debit card, or an electronic check, and it is not refundable. The state sends email only after review. The approved registration and any correspondence are downloadable from the work queue. New Mexico publishes no processing time for this filing.
Amending the registration later
The registration can be amended by filing an amended certificate of registration that sets forth the name of the company, the date the original application was filed, and the amendment. The fee is $50. An authenticated copy of the amended articles of organization accompanies it, and the amendment may change anything that could lawfully have been in the original.
What gets a filing rejected
Rejections come from a stale certificate, a date that disagrees with it, a missing agent acceptance, an address that is not a New Mexico street address for the agent, or a signer without authority at home. If a document is disapproved, the Act requires written reasons within 15 working days.
How the application gets prepared
You give us the details
Company name, home state, date of formation, home office and managers.
We test the certificate
Name and date must agree with the application, and the age must fit the 30-day window.
We collect the agent acceptance
The signed statement is uploaded as a PDF.
We complete each requirement
Statements A to G, from your answers.
The signer reviews it
The person who signs holds authority under home-state law.
We file it online
We pay $100 through the portal and send you the record.
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
Who signs the application?
An authorized signer under the home state's law.
Can I file on paper?
No. Business filings are online only.
What is attached?
The home certificate, current within 30 days, and the agent's signed acceptance.
How is the agent changed later?
By a statement of change, which costs $20.
Our fee and the New Mexico fee
Start my New Mexico registration
- The New Mexico application drafted from what you tell us
- Your home-state certificate checked against the thirty-day limit before anything is filed
- A New Mexico registered agent, supplied by us or named by you
- The filed record emailed to you
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
$199
+ $100 New Mexico fee (LLC)
Start my New Mexico filingNew Mexico charges $100 to register a foreign LLC. A foreign corporation pays at least $200. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Registering in New Mexico?
Choose LLC or corporation and give us the formation state.