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Register Your Texas LLC in New Hampshire

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

New Hampshire filing fee $100 one-time
Registered agent $125/year based on Northwest RA
Total, all in $775
New Hampshire data last reviewed Aug 21, 2026 · sos.nh.gov Totals include the $100 New Hampshire filing fee once, Northwest RA at $125/year, and New Hampshire recurring state costs over the selected period. The Cost Summary below is the same year one figure without the agent.

Cost Summary

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

How to register your Texas LLC in New Hampshire

1

Check name availability in New Hampshire

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

2

No home-state certificate needed

New Hampshire requires no home-state certificate when a foreign LLC registers here. The form carries an affirmation of good standing instead.

3

File the Form FLLC-1, Application for Registration as a Foreign Limited Liability Company in New Hampshire

Submit your application with the $100 filing fee. See the processing time under Ongoing compliance below. Expedited processing is available, priced under Ongoing compliance below. Online filing is available.

New Hampshire filing portal ↗
4

Appoint a registered agent in New Hampshire

You must designate a registered agent with a physical address in New Hampshire 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 Hampshire?

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

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

Ongoing compliance in New Hampshire

Annual report
$100/year
Report due
April 1
Processing time
New Hampshire publishes no standing turnaround. It states that processing times vary by filing type and time of year, and posts a current processing date in the Announcements on the NH QuickStart login page.
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Expedited service is $25 and is sold in person only, at the Customer Lobby in Concord

Expedite
$25, and it is counter only. New Hampshire sells it in person at the Customer Lobby in Concord and does not offer it online or by post.
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No turnaround is published for the expedite itself; standard online processing is posted as no more than 10 business days on one FAQ page and 10 to 15 on another

Important to know about New Hampshire

  • The annual report is $100 and due April 1 on a fixed calendar rather than the registration anniversary.

Registering after you already started doing business in New Hampshire? See the New Hampshire late-registration penalties for the back fees and fines that can apply.

What does NOT require registration in New Hampshire 14 activities

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

  • Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding
  • Holding meetings of members or managers, or carrying on other internal company affairs
  • Maintaining bank accounts
  • Maintaining transfer, exchange, or registration offices for the company's own securities or interests, or trustees or depositories for them
  • Selling through independent contractors
  • Soliciting or obtaining orders, if the orders require acceptance outside New Hampshire to become contracts
  • Creating or acquiring debts, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property
  • Securing or collecting debts, or enforcing mortgages and security interests in the property securing them
  • Owning real or personal property, and nothing more
  • Conducting an isolated transaction completed within 30 days that is not one of a series of like transactions
  • Transacting business in interstate commerce
  • Owning a controlling interest in a corporation that is doing business here
  • Being a limited partner of a limited partnership that is doing business here
  • Being a member or manager of an LLC or foreign LLC that is doing business here

Under RSA 304-C:174. Fourteen items across two paragraphs. The tax disclaimer in paragraph III is weaker than standard: it expressly preserves a Business Profits Tax finding under RSA 77-A:1, XII, so a registration safe harbor does not imply BPT safety.

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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 Hampshire Secretary of State before filing.