Colorado

Foreign registration · no form number

New Hampshire LLC Foreign Registration in Colorado

An LLC formed in New Hampshire that wants to do business in Colorado files an online registration (no form number), with $100 in state fees. Colorado needs nothing from New Hampshire: no Certificate of Good Standing. We file it with the Secretary of State, Business Program using your New Hampshire records and act as your registered agent there for the first year.

New Hampshire vs Colorado: the paperwork

	New Hampshire formed here	Colorado registering here
Document	New Hampshire 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	New Hampshire: online	Filed online with Colorado
Office	New Hampshire Secretary of State, Corporation Division	Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program
Official page	quickstart.sos.nh.gov	coloradosos.gov
Yearly filing	Annual Report, $102, every year	Periodic Report, $25, every year
Due	April 1	Last day of the entity's anniversary month
Late yearly filing	$50 late fee	$50 late fee
Agent	Your New Hampshire registered agent	Our Colorado registered agent

How New Hampshire companies register with Colorado

We prepare and file the registration
It names us as your Colorado registered agent, with your New Hampshire name and formation date. No New Hampshire paperwork holds up the Colorado filing. Once Colorado approves it, the New Hampshire company can do business there.

Your New Hampshire name and Colorado's rules

If Colorado's records show it taken, you can use an alternate name for the New Hampshire company. We search Colorado's records for New Hampshire's name on file before anything is filed.

Your Colorado agent and the New Hampshire one

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

Yearly filings: Colorado and New Hampshire

Each year your LLC files New Hampshire's Annual Report ($102) and Colorado's Periodic Report ($25). With our $149 registered agent renewal, New Hampshire plus Colorado comes to $276 a year. Both states' filings stay current side by side.

LLC or corporation, New Hampshire to Colorado

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

Registering a Colorado company in New Hampshire

An LLC formed in Colorado that registers with New Hampshire files Form FLLC-1 with $102 in state fees; no Colorado certificate is needed. See that filing.

Questions New Hampshire owners ask about Colorado

Does my New Hampshire company need to register in Colorado?

Yes, once a New Hampshire business operates there; Colorado law lists 12 activities that do not count on their own.

How much does it cost to register a New Hampshire LLC in Colorado?

$299 at checkout, with nothing to pay New Hampshire.

Do I need New Hampshire's certificate of good standing?

No, Colorado takes the registration without it.

What are the yearly costs for New Hampshire and Colorado?

$276 a year: our $149 registered agent renewal, $102 to New Hampshire and $25 to Colorado for the yearly reports.

What if I don't register with Colorado?

Colorado can charge a New Hampshire company up to $100 for each year or part of a year and a civil penalty of up to $5,000.

Does Colorado require a registered agent?

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

Will Colorado accept my New Hampshire name?

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

Can I form a new Colorado LLC instead?

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

How do I withdraw from Colorado later?

New Hampshire companies leave by filing a Statement of Foreign Entity Withdrawal ($10); until then, Colorado's report stays due alongside New Hampshire's filings.

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