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Kansas Foreign LLC Registration

The fee, the form, what triggers registration in Kansas, and how to file.

State filing fee $115 one-time
Registered agent $125/year based on Northwest RA
Total, all in $670
Kansas data last reviewed Sep 11, 2026 · sos.ks.gov Totals include the $115 filing fee once, Northwest RA at $125/year, and Kansas recurring state costs over the selected period. The report fee is biennial and counted per filing due.

Foreign Qualification

Filing fee
$115
Form
Application for Registration
Annual obligation
$90 biennial
Processing time
Kansas publishes no processing time for a foreign registration.
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Foreign business entities must file on paper, so the one timing statement the Secretary of State does publish, that an online domestic formation is processed within minutes, does not reach this filing. Kansas sells no expedited service either, so there is no purchased turnaround to fall back on.

Estimated year 1 cost
$205
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Need to register your LLC in Kansas?

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

Have Northwest register your LLC in Kansas ↗
$225 + the state fee · One year of registered agent included
Other registered agent options 2 alternatives
Registered Agents Inc
$200/year · Report filing included, state fees extra
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Harbor Compliance
$99 first year, then $149/year · Full-service compliance option
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What triggers foreign qualification in Kansas?

  • Physical office or place of business
  • Employees working in the state

Important to know

  • Foreign LLCs cannot register online. Kansas accepts the foreign application on paper only, at $115, the single figure form FA prints for every foreign entity type. Several national guides still publish the previous $165 figure, and a fee computed from the February 2026 regulations gives $90, which is not what the form charges.
  • The Information Report is biennial, not annual, at $90 online and $110 by paper.
What does NOT require registration in Kansas 11 activities

Kansas carves 11 activities out by statute. On their own, none of them requires a foreign LLC to register.

  • Maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding
  • Holding meetings, or carrying on any other internal affairs of the entity
  • Maintaining bank accounts
  • Maintaining offices or agents to transfer, exchange, or register the entity's own securities, or maintaining trustees or depositories for them
  • Selling through independent contractors
  • Soliciting or taking orders, if the orders must be accepted outside Kansas before they become contracts
  • Selling machinery, plants, or equipment under a contract signed outside Kansas and sending in technical engineers or skilled workers only to supervise its construction, erection, or installation
  • Creating or acquiring debt as borrower or lender, with or without a mortgage or security interest in property
  • Securing or collecting debts, foreclosing security interests, and holding or maintaining property acquired that way
  • Conducting an isolated transaction completed within 30 days that is not one of a series of similar transactions
  • Transacting business in interstate commerce

Under K.S.A. 17-7932. Kansas has NO property-ownership safe harbor. It adds an equipment-installation carve-out not found in the uniform act.

Forming a new LLC in Kansas instead? $85 to form
Formation fee
$85
Annual cost
$90 biennial
State income tax
Income tax up to 5.58% (2026 tax year)
Privacy
Moderate
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This page provides general information based on publicly available state requirements. It is not legal advice. Verify with the Kansas SOS before filing.