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Register Your Florida LLC in New Mexico

Step-by-step foreign qualification requirements, fees, and filing instructions for Florida LLCs expanding into New Mexico.

New Mexico filing fee $100 one-time
Registered agent $125/year based on Northwest RA
Total, all in $480
New Mexico data last reviewed Aug 22, 2026 · sos.nm.gov Totals include the $100 New Mexico filing fee once, Northwest RA at $125/year, and New Mexico recurring state costs over the selected period. Adds the $5 Certificate of Status from Florida once. The Cost Summary below is the same year one figure without the agent.

Cost Summary

New Mexico filing fee
$100
Florida Certificate of Status
$5
Annual obligation in New Mexico
No annual report required
Estimated year 1 total
$105
Note: Year 1 total includes the $100 filing fee in New Mexico, the $5 Certificate of Status fee from Florida. Registered agent fees (typically $100-$200/year) are not included.
Florida data last reviewed Aug 22, 2026 · dos.fl.gov

How to register your Florida LLC in New Mexico

1

Check name availability in New Mexico

Before filing, verify that your LLC name (or a distinguishable variation) is available in New Mexico. If your exact name is already taken, you may need to register under a fictitious or assumed name.

Search the business name register on the New Mexico Secretary of State website before you file.

2

Get a Certificate of Status from Florida

New Mexico requires a Certificate of Status from Florida to prove your LLC is in good standing. The fee is $5. Available to order online.

Order from Florida ↗
3

File the Foreign Limited Liability Company Application for Registration in New Mexico

Submit your application along with the Certificate of Status and the $100 filing fee. See the processing time under Ongoing compliance below. Online filing is available.

New Mexico filing portal ↗
4

Appoint a registered agent in New Mexico

You must designate a registered agent with a physical address in New Mexico to accept legal documents on behalf of your LLC. This is required as part of the foreign qualification application.

Need to register your LLC in New Mexico?

Northwest files the foreign registration and serves as your registered agent in New Mexico, which the filing requires. Only need an agent? Northwest's registered agent service alone is $125/year.

Have Northwest register your LLC in New Mexico ↗
$225 + the state fee · One year of registered agent included
Other registered agent options 2 alternatives

Ongoing compliance in New Mexico

Annual report
No annual report required
Report due
No annual report
Processing time
New Mexico publishes no processing time for this filing on any of its static pages.
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Note: New Mexico imposes no annual report requirement on LLCs, domestic or foreign, which removes a recurring filing most states impose. The registration fee is $100, which is mid-table rather than cheap: fifteen states charge less and the median is $142.50. The $100 is also the LLC rate specifically; a foreign corporation pays a computed fee the state bounds at no less than $200 and no more than $1,000.

Important to know about New Mexico

  • New Mexico LLCs file no annual report, which makes it one of the cheapest states to maintain.
  • Operating unregistered still accrues up to $200 per year or part of a year.

Already operating in New Mexico without registering? Our guide to what New Mexico charges unregistered LLCs covers fines, back fees, and court access.

What does NOT require registration in New Mexico 14 activities

New Mexico carves 14 activities out by statute. On their own, none of them requires a foreign LLC to register.

  • Maintaining, defending, or settling a proceeding
  • Holding meetings of members or carrying on internal company affairs
  • Maintaining bank accounts
  • Maintaining offices or agencies for transfer, exchange, and registration of its own securities or interests, or trustees or depositories for them
  • Selling through independent contractors
  • Soliciting or obtaining orders by mail, employees, or agents, if the orders require acceptance outside the state
  • Creating as borrower or lender, or acquiring, indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property
  • Securing or collecting debts, or enforcing rights in property securing debts
  • Acquiring out-of-state royalties and nonoperating mineral interests, signing related instruments, and owning real or personal property and nothing more
  • Conducting an isolated transaction completed within 30 days that is not one of repeated transactions of a like nature
  • Transacting business in interstate commerce
  • Owning a controlling interest in a corporation that transacts business in the state
  • Being a limited partner of a limited partnership that transacts business in the state
  • Being a member or manager of an LLC that transacts business in the state

Under NMSA 1978 Section 53-19-54. Fourteen items across two subsections. The property-ownership safe harbor is bundled inside the mineral-interest paragraph A(9) rather than standing alone.

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This page provides general information based on publicly available state requirements. It is not legal advice. Verify all fees and requirements with the New Mexico Secretary of State before filing.