Everything you need to register a foreign LLC in New York.
State filing fee$250one-time
Registered agent$125/yearbased on Northwest RA
Total, all in$718
New York data last reviewed Aug 26, 2026 · dos.ny.govTotals include the $250 filing fee once, Northwest RA at $125/year, and New York recurring state costs over the selected period. The report fee is biennial and counted per filing due. Excludes one-time newspaper publication ($200 to $1,800 by county).
Foreign Qualification
Filing fee
$250
Form
Application for Authority
Annual obligation
$9 biennial + $25/year state filing fee
Processing time
New York publishes no turnaround for ordinary processing of this filing. The Division of Corporations publishes only the times it sells: 24 hours, same day or two hours, each per document. Budget separately for publication, which reaches foreign LLCs as well as domestic ones: a copy of the application or a notice of its substance must run once a week for six successive weeks in two county-designated newspapers, followed by a $50 Certificate of Publication, and failure within 120 days suspends the LLC's authority to do business.
Expedite
$25 per document for processing within 24 hours, $75 per document for the same day, or $150 per document within two hours. Charged per document, so a filer submitting two instruments pays it twice, and counted from receipt of the request rather than from posting.
Estimated year 1 cost
$284
Note: New York requires publication in two newspapers within 120 days of filing. This is mandatory, not optional. Publication typically costs $200 to $1,800 depending on county and is not included in the SOS fee total above.
New York data last reviewed Aug 26, 2026 · dos.ny.gov
Formation in New York
Formation fee
$200
Annual cost
$9 biennial + $25/year state filing fee
State income tax
Income tax up to 10.9%
Privacy
Low
Publication requirement adds $200 to $1,800 to Year 1 costs depending on county. This is mandatory and applies to both domestic and foreign LLCs.
What triggers foreign qualification in New York?
Physical presence in New York
Employees in New York
Regular business transactions in New York
Important to know
Publication requirement: must publish in two newspapers for 6 consecutive weeks within 120 days of filing
Publication costs vary by county and can range from about $200 (Albany County) to $1,800 (New York County)
NY LLC Transparency Act (effective January 1, 2026) does NOT apply to domestic U.S. LLCs. Gov. Hochul vetoed the expansion bill on December 19, 2025, so the act only covers LLCs formed outside the United States that register to do business in NY. Domestic NY LLCs (formed in any U.S. state) have no state-level BOI filing obligation. If you form an LLC in NY or foreign-qualify a Delaware/Wyoming/etc. LLC into NY, you are not a reporting company under the NY LLCTA.
New York LLCs have a publication requirement
Within 120 days of formation or foreign qualification, every New York LLC must publish notice in two newspapers for six consecutive weeks. The cost depends on your county and runs from about $200 upstate to $1,800 in Manhattan. See our New York LLC publication cost guide for the county-by-county breakdown and the legal way to lower the bill.
New York also requires a biennial statement every two years. Our guide covers the filing window and the late-filing trap.
Activities that do NOT require registration in New York
The following activities are explicitly carved out by statute. On their own, they do not require a foreign LLC to register in New York.
Maintaining or defending a lawsuit, administrative proceeding, or arbitration, or settling it or settling claims and disputes
Holding meetings of members or managers
Maintaining bank accounts
Maintaining an office or agency only to transfer, exchange, and register membership interests, or appointing depositaries for those interests
Under NY LLC Law Section 803. New York's list is only 4 items, the shortest in the country. It has NO isolated-transaction carve-out, NO order-solicitation carve-out, NO independent-contractor carve-out and NO property-ownership carve-out. Subdivision (b) disclaims service of process only and says nothing about taxation. Do not assume the standard uniform-act carve-outs apply in New York.
This page provides general information based on publicly available state requirements. It is not legal advice. Verify with the New York SOS before filing.