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Foreign registration · no form number

Minnesota Corporation Foreign Registration in Colorado

Colorado registers a corporation from Minnesota as a foreign corporation on an online registration (no form number), with $100 in state fees. Colorado needs nothing from Minnesota: no Certificate of Good Standing. We file it with the Secretary of State, Business Program using your Minnesota records and act as your registered agent there for the first year.

What Minnesota and Colorado each ask for

	Minnesota formed here	Colorado registering here
Document	Minnesota Certificate of Good Standing (not needed here)	Statement of Foreign Entity Authority (no form number)
State fee	$5	$100 at order
How it is handled	Minnesota: online, issued as soon as it is paid for and kept in the online account for 90 days	Filed online with Colorado
Office	Minnesota Secretary of State, Business Services	Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program
Official page	sos.mn.gov	coloradosos.gov
Yearly filing	Annual Renewal, no fee, every year	Periodic Report, $25, every year
Due	December 31	Last day of the entity's anniversary month
Agent	Your Minnesota registered agent	Our Colorado registered agent

From Minnesota to Colorado, step by step

We prepare and file the registration
It names us as your Colorado registered agent, with your Minnesota name and formation date. No Minnesota paperwork holds up the Colorado filing. After approval, your Minnesota corporation is registered with Colorado.

Will your Minnesota name work for Colorado?

If another Colorado company uses the Minnesota name, an alternate name is allowed. We search Colorado's records for Minnesota's name on file before anything is filed.

Your Colorado agent and the Minnesota one

Minnesota and Colorado both call it a registered agent. Colorado papers come to us; Minnesota's agent is unchanged.

Yearly filings: Colorado and Minnesota

Each year your corporation files Minnesota's Annual Renewal (no fee) and Colorado's Periodic Report ($25). With our $149 registered agent renewal, Minnesota plus Colorado comes to $174 a year. Both states' filings stay current side by side.

LLC or corporation, Minnesota to Colorado

An LLC formed in Minnesota files its own registration with Colorado ($100 in state fees, the same; no home-state certificate is needed). After that come Minnesota's Annual Renewal (no fee) and Colorado's Periodic Report ($25). See the LLC filing.

Registering a Colorado company in Minnesota

A corporation formed in Colorado that registers with Minnesota files Minnesota's registration (no form number) with $220 in state fees. See that filing.

Questions Minnesota owners ask about Colorado

Does my Minnesota company need to register in Colorado?

Yes, once a Minnesota business operates there; Colorado registers it as a foreign corporation.

Is this a certificate of authority?

Colorado calls it registration for Minnesota corporations; other states say certificate of authority.

How much does it cost to register a Minnesota corporation in Colorado?

$299 at checkout, with nothing to pay Minnesota.

Do I need Minnesota's certificate of good standing?

No, Colorado takes the registration without it.

What are the yearly costs for Minnesota and Colorado?

$174 a year: our $149 registered agent renewal, nothing to Minnesota and $25 to Colorado for the yearly reports.

Does Colorado require a registered agent?

Yes: the Minnesota registered agent stays, and ours covers Colorado for year one.

Will Colorado accept my Minnesota name?

Yes, if no company there has it; if one does, it uses an alternate name there and keeps its Minnesota name at home.

Can I form a new Colorado corporation instead?

Yes, but Minnesota keeps the original, so you run two companies: the new one files Colorado's Periodic Report ($25), and the original keeps Minnesota's Annual Renewal.

How do I withdraw from Colorado later?

Minnesota companies leave by filing a Statement of Foreign Entity Withdrawal; until then, Colorado's report stays due alongside Minnesota's filings.

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