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Register Your New York LLC in Pennsylvania

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

Pennsylvania filing fee $250 one-time
Registered agent $125/year based on Northwest RA
Total, all in $646
Pennsylvania data last reviewed Aug 26, 2026 · dos.pa.gov Totals include the $250 Pennsylvania filing fee once, Northwest RA at $125/year, and Pennsylvania recurring state costs over the selected period. The Cost Summary below is the same year one figure without the agent.

Cost Summary

Pennsylvania filing fee
$250
New York Certificate of Status
Not required
Annual obligation in Pennsylvania
$7/year
Estimated year 1 total
$257
Note: Year 1 total covers Pennsylvania state fees only. Pennsylvania does not ask for a certificate of good standing from New York. Registered agent fees (typically $100-$200/year) are not included.
New York data last reviewed Sep 11, 2026 · dos.ny.gov

How to register your New York LLC in Pennsylvania

1

Check name availability in Pennsylvania

Before filing, verify that your LLC name (or a distinguishable variation) is available in Pennsylvania. 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 Pennsylvania Secretary of State website before you file.

2

No home-state certificate needed

Pennsylvania requires no home-state certificate when a foreign LLC registers here. A docketing statement accompanies the filing instead.

3

File the Foreign Registration Statement (DSCB:15-412) in Pennsylvania

Submit your application with the $250 filing fee. See the processing time under Ongoing compliance below. Expedited processing is available, priced under Ongoing compliance below. Online filing is available.

Pennsylvania filing portal ↗
4

Appoint a registered agent in Pennsylvania

You must designate a registered agent with a physical address in Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania?

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

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

Ongoing compliance in Pennsylvania

Annual report
$7/year
Report due
September 30
Processing time
Pennsylvania publishes "Please allow 15 business days for processing" for business filings generally.
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It separately reported a two to four day average across 2024, which is a performance statistic rather than a service standard and is now well over a year old. Expedited service is $100 same day if received before 10am, $300 within three hours if before 2pm and $1,000 within one hour if before 4pm, and expedited requests cannot be posted

Expedite
$100 for same day if received before 10am, $300 within three hours if before 2pm, $1,000 within one hour if before 4pm. Expedited requests cannot be posted, and the fees are nonrefundable

Important to know about Pennsylvania

  • The annual report is $7 and due September 30. Older guides may state that Pennsylvania requires no annual report.

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

What does NOT require registration in Pennsylvania 12 activities

Pennsylvania carves 12 activities out by statute. On their own, none of them requires a foreign LLC to register.

  • Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling an action or proceeding
  • Carrying on internal affairs, including meetings of interest holders or governors
  • Maintaining accounts at financial institutions
  • Maintaining offices or agents for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the association's securities
  • Selling through independent contractors
  • Soliciting or taking orders that must be accepted outside Pennsylvania before they become contracts
  • Creating, acquiring, or incurring obligations, debt, mortgages, or security interests in property
  • Securing or collecting debts, enforcing security interests, and holding or maintaining property acquired that way
  • Conducting an isolated transaction that is not one of a series of similar transactions
  • Doing business in interstate or foreign commerce
  • Acquiring, owning, holding, leasing as a tenant, or transferring real estate, mortgages and liens, personal property, and security interests, and nothing more
  • Doing work or providing services in good faith in response to a disaster or emergency

Under 15 Pa.C.S. Section 403. Twelve operative items; statutory paragraph (10) was deleted by amendment, so the printed numbering runs to (13). Pennsylvania puts NO time limit on the isolated-transaction carve-out and has an unusually broad property item covering leasing and fiduciary holding. Unique item: work performed in good faith in response to a disaster or emergency.

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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 Pennsylvania Secretary of State before filing.