New Mexico Foreign Registration/Wyoming LLC owners
Wyoming-formed LLCs in New Mexico: a free certificate and a second agent
Registering a Wyoming LLC in New Mexico costs $100, and Wyoming's yearly minimum is $60, so government charges in the first year total $160. Wyoming issues its good standing certificate for $0, which makes the thirty-day New Mexico window easy to meet.
Wyoming against New Mexico
| Item | Wyoming | New Mexico |
|---|---|---|
| Yearly requirement | $60 minimum | None for a foreign LLC |
| Standing paper | $0 certificate | Issued within 30 days of filing |
| Entry cost | Already formed | $100 |
| Registered agent | The Wyoming agent on file | A separate New Mexico agent |
A free certificate fits a short window
When the certificate costs nothing, there is no reason to keep an old one. Print a fresh copy on the day you file, and it is a day old when the Secretary of State receives it, well inside the limit.
Why a second agent is needed
Your Wyoming agent covers Wyoming. New Mexico takes 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, with a registered office. The agent page explains the signed acceptance and the change fee.
Completing the application
Name: as the Wyoming certificate shows it. State of organization: Wyoming. Date: the one on the Wyoming record. Home office: the Wyoming registered office. Management: the people in whom it is vested. A person with authority under Wyoming law signs. The application page goes requirement by requirement.
The sums
Registration here is $100. Add Wyoming's $60 minimum and the first year is $160. A Delaware LLC pays $500 for the same year because Delaware's tax is $400. Our fee, $199, is extra.
Scenario: a Wyoming LLC opens a shop in Albuquerque
The LLC leases a shop and hires staff. That is continuing activity and none of the excluded items covers it, so it registers. The owner downloads the Wyoming certificate, names a New Mexico agent and files at $100. Afterwards Wyoming collects its minimum each year and New Mexico collects nothing yearly.
Scenario: a Wyoming holding company
If the Wyoming LLC owns a controlling interest in a New Mexico company, or is a member of a New Mexico LLC, with no property or payroll of its own in New Mexico, the Act says that holding alone is not transacting business. A holding company that also owns the building the operating company uses sits closer to the line, so have a New Mexico lawyer read the structure.
Scenario: online sales into New Mexico
A Wyoming seller that ships from outside the state against orders accepted outside it looks like interstate commerce, and the list excuses both that and out-of-state acceptance. Tax is a separate topic for an accountant.
If Wyoming standing slips
New Mexico looks at standing only on the day it receives the certificate. But a lapse at home blocks the next certificate you need, whether for an amendment or a lender. Keep the Wyoming date on the calendar next to the New Mexico paperwork.
Registering a Wyoming LLC in New Mexico
Confirm Wyoming is current
Pay or file whatever Wyoming still expects.
Pick the New Mexico agent
A New Mexico resident, or a business that keeps a New Mexico place of business at the registered office address.
Print the certificate on filing day
Wyoming issues it online without charge.
Write the application
Name Wyoming as the home jurisdiction.
File online
Pay $100 through the portal.
Which Wyoming certificate to print
New Mexico asks for a certificate of good standing and compliance from the home state. Before filing we confirm that the certificate Wyoming offers online meets that wording, and if it does not we tell you what Wyoming provides instead. The wording matters because the Secretary of State reads the certificate at receipt, and a document that does not say what the statute asks for can send the filing back for correction.
The New Mexico side afterwards
No yearly report applies to a foreign LLC under the Act. An amendment when management changes is $50, a new agent is $20 and a cancellation is $25. Registering and then cancelling costs $125 in New Mexico fees, while Wyoming's minimum keeps running.
Wyoming corporations
A corporation formed in Wyoming applies for a certificate of authority, from $200 depending on authorized shares. The corporation page has the details.
Leaving New Mexico later
A certificate of cancellation costs $25. Wyoming's yearly minimum carries on whatever happens here. See the cancellation page.
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 New Mexico accept a Wyoming certificate?
Yes, a good standing certificate issued by Wyoming within 30 days.
Can the Wyoming agent act in New Mexico?
Only when it qualifies as a business agent under New Mexico's test.
Does anything recur in New Mexico?
No yearly report applies to a foreign LLC in the Act, only amendments and agent changes as events require.
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.