Colorado

Foreign registration · no form number

New Jersey LLC Foreign Registration in Colorado

An LLC formed in New Jersey that wants to do business in Colorado files an online registration (no form number), with $100 in state fees. Colorado asks nothing of New Jersey here, not even the Standing Certificate. We file it with the Secretary of State, Business Program using your New Jersey records and act as your registered agent there for the first year.

New Jersey and Colorado side by side

	New Jersey formed here	Colorado registering here
Document	New Jersey Standing Certificate (not needed here)	Statement of Foreign Entity Authority (no form number)
State fee	$50	$100 at order
How it is handled	New Jersey: online as an electronic certificate, or by mail, fax or in person	Filed online with Colorado
Office	New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES), Department of the Treasury	Colorado Secretary of State, Business Program
Official page	nj.gov	coloradosos.gov
Yearly filing	Annual Report, $75, every year	Periodic Report, $25, every year
Due	Last day of the LLC's anniversary month each year	Last day of the entity's anniversary month
Agent	Your New Jersey registered agent	Our Colorado registered agent

How New Jersey companies register with Colorado

We prepare and file the registration
It lists us as your Colorado registered agent, next to your New Jersey name and formation date. Nothing has to come from New Jersey first, so the Colorado filing can go in right away. After approval, your New Jersey LLC is registered with Colorado.

Your New Jersey name and Colorado's rules

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

Your Colorado agent and the New Jersey one

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

Yearly filings: Colorado and New Jersey

Each year your LLC files New Jersey's Annual Report ($75) and Colorado's Periodic Report ($25). With our $149 registered agent renewal, New Jersey plus Colorado comes to $249 a year. The new registration does not replace any home-state filing.

LLC or corporation, New Jersey to Colorado

A corporation formed in New Jersey files its own registration with Colorado ($100 in state fees, the same; no home-state certificate is needed). After that come New Jersey's Annual Report ($75) and Colorado's Periodic Report ($25). See the corporation filing.

Registering a Colorado company in New Jersey

An LLC formed in Colorado that registers with New Jersey files New Jersey's registration (no form number) with $100 in state fees, plus the Certificate of Good Standing (free). See that filing.

Questions New Jersey owners ask about Colorado

Does my New Jersey company need to register in Colorado?

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

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

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

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

No, Colorado takes the registration without it.

What are the yearly costs for New Jersey and Colorado?

$249 a year: our $149 registered agent renewal, $75 to New Jersey and $25 to Colorado for the yearly reports.

What if I don't register with Colorado?

Colorado can charge a New Jersey 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 Jersey registered agent stays, and ours covers Colorado for year one.

Will Colorado accept my New Jersey name?

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

Can I form a new Colorado LLC instead?

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

How do I withdraw from Colorado later?

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

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