Hawaii Foreign LLC Certificate of Authority: Form FLLC-1

Hawaii LLC certificate of authority at a glance

Filing

Form FLLC-1, Application for Certificate of Authority for Foreign Limited Liability Company

State fee

$51 filing fee

Total with us

$250, first year of Hawaii registered agent service included

Home-state certificate

Required, dated within 60 days

Hawaii yearly filing

Yearly report (named below), $15, every year

Filed with

Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA), Business Registration Division

What Form FLLC-1 asks for

For Form FLLC-1, Hawaii needs:

• The exact name of your LLC as formed
• The state it was formed in and its date of formation
• A Hawaii registered agent with a street address there; we fill in ours
• A principal office address
• A certificate of good standing from the home state, no older than 60 days when Hawaii receives it

LLC into Hawaii, by home state

The first-year total adds the home state's certificate fee to the $250 checkout total; the certificate is ordered from that state.

If you do business in Hawaii without registering

An unregistered LLC doing business there cannot start a lawsuit in Hawaii courts until it registers. Its contracts stay valid, and it can still defend a case brought against it. When it does register, Hawaii collects the fees it would have charged for the years it went unregistered. The Hawaii attorney general can ask a court to stop the LLC doing business there until it registers.

Hawaii registered agent rule

Hawaii requires every registered foreign LLC to keep a registered agent there. Hawaii allows an individual residing in Hawaii, or a domestic or foreign entity authorized to transact business in Hawaii to serve. Switching agents later costs $25. A resigning agent stays responsible for 31 days after filing the resignation. Our $199 includes the first year of Hawaii registered agent service, then $149 a year.

Hawaii yearly filings

Once registered, your LLC files the Hawaii Annual Report (Form C6) every year, at $15, due last day of the quarter in which the foreign LLC was registered in Hawaii. The Hawaii filing window opens first day of the assigned quarter and closes last day of the assigned quarter. Filing it late adds $100. From year two, keeping the Hawaii registration costs $164 a year with our registered agent service.

How long Hawaii takes

We file Form FLLC-1 with the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA).

Leaving Hawaii later

If your LLC stops doing business there, it ends the registration by filing Form FLLC-2, Application for Certificate of Cancellation for a Foreign Limited Liability Company. Until that is filed, Hawaii's yearly filing stays due.