Virginia Foreign LLC Registration: Form LLC1052

Virginia LLC registration at a glance

Filing

Form LLC1052, Application for Certificate of Registration to Transact Business in Virginia as a Foreign Limited Liability Company

State fee

$100 filing fee

Total with us

$299, first year of Virginia registered agent service included

Home-state certificate

Required, dated within one year

Virginia yearly filing

Annual Registration Fee, $50, every year

Filed with

Virginia State Corporation Commission, Office of the Clerk

What Form LLC1052 asks for

For Form LLC1052, Virginia needs:

• The exact name of your LLC as formed
• The state it was formed in and its date of formation
• A Virginia 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 one year when Virginia receives it

LLC into Virginia, by home state

The first-year total adds the home state's certificate fee to the $299 checkout total; the certificate is ordered from that state.

When Virginia expects an LLC to register

Virginia law lists 12 activities that do not, on their own, count as doing business in Virginia; the list gives examples and is not the full test. A one-off transaction completed within 30 days, and not one of a series, does not count either. An office, staff, or regular sales and contracts there are what typically lead to registration.

If you do business in Virginia without registering

An unregistered LLC doing business there cannot start a lawsuit in Virginia courts until it registers. Its contracts stay valid, and it can still defend a case brought against it. Virginia penalties for unregistered business: a civil penalty of up to $5,000. The Virginia attorney general can ask a court to stop the LLC doing business there until it registers.

Virginia registered agent rule

Virginia requires every registered foreign LLC to keep a registered agent there. Switching agents later carries no Virginia fee. A resigning agent stays responsible for 31 days after filing the resignation. Our $199 includes the first year of Virginia registered agent service, then $149 a year.

Virginia yearly filings

Once registered, your LLC files the Virginia Annual Registration Fee every year, at $50. Filing it late adds $25. From year two, keeping the Virginia registration costs $199 a year with our registered agent service.

How long Virginia takes

We file Form LLC1052 online with the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

Leaving Virginia later

If your LLC stops doing business there, it ends the registration by filing an Application for Certificate of Cancellation. Until that is filed, Virginia's yearly filing stays due.