The fee, the form, what triggers registration in New York, and how to file.
The Division of Corporations publishes only the times it sells: 24 hours, same day or two hours, each per document. Budget separately for publication, which reaches foreign LLCs as well as domestic ones: a copy of the application or a notice of its substance must run once a week for six successive weeks in two county-designated newspapers, followed by a $50 Certificate of Publication, and failure within 120 days suspends the LLC's authority to do business.
Charged per document, so a filer submitting two instruments pays it twice, and counted from receipt of the request rather than from posting.
Northwest files the foreign registration and serves as your registered agent in New York, which the filing requires. Only need an agent? Northwest's registered agent service alone is $125/year.
Have Northwest register your LLC in New York ↗The publication requirement above runs from about $200 upstate to $1,800 in Manhattan. Our publication cost guide has the county-by-county breakdown and the legal way to lower the bill. New York also requires a biennial statement every two years.
New York carves 4 activities out by statute. On their own, none of them requires a foreign LLC to register.
Under NY LLC Law Section 803. New York's list is only 4 items, the shortest in the country. It has NO isolated-transaction carve-out, NO order-solicitation carve-out, NO independent-contractor carve-out and NO property-ownership carve-out. Subdivision (b) disclaims service of process only and says nothing about taxation. Do not assume the standard uniform-act carve-outs apply in New York.
This page provides general information based on publicly available state requirements. It is not legal advice. Verify with the New York SOS before filing.