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New Mexico Foreign LLC Registration

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

State filing fee $100 one-time
Registered agent $125/year based on Northwest RA
Estimated total $475
New Mexico data last reviewed Oct 9, 2026 · sos.nm.gov Totals include the $100 filing fee once, Northwest RA at $125/year, and New Mexico recurring state costs over the selected period.

Foreign Qualification

Filing fee
$100
Form
Foreign Limited Liability Company Application for Registration
Annual obligation
No annual report required
Processing time
Check the 'Business Filings' processed-through date on New Mexico's filing portal for the current queue. Review times change; the posted date is not a guaranteed turnaround.
Estimated year 1 cost
$100
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 on the low side: eight states charge less, eight others charge the same $100, and the 50-state 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.
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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

Filing it yourself? Go to the official New Mexico SOS portal ↗

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 $159/year · Full-service compliance option
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What triggers foreign qualification in New Mexico?

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

Important to know

  • 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.
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.

Forming a new LLC in New Mexico instead? $50 to form
Formation fee
$50
Annual cost
No annual report
State income tax
Income tax up to 5.9% (2026 tax year)
Privacy
High
New Mexico does not require LLC members to be listed publicly. A manager-managed LLC lists its managers, and the organizer who signs the articles is named.
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This page provides general information based on publicly available state requirements. It is not legal advice. Verify with the New Mexico SOS before filing.