Missouri Foreign Registration / From Wyoming

How a Wyoming LLC gets registered in Missouri

A Wyoming LLC's first Missouri year is $165: Missouri's $105 plus Wyoming's annual report minimum of $60, with only the Wyoming minimum due afterward. The certificate Missouri asks for must be under 60 days old, and Wyoming provides it online free.

Wyoming and Missouri side by side

Item	Wyoming	Missouri
Yearly charge	$60 minimum report	None
Certificate	No charge online	Required, within 60 days
Original filing	Already formed	$105 registration
Agent	A Wyoming agent on file	A second agent in Missouri

The Wyoming certificate and the sixty-day window

Order the Wyoming certificate close to your filing day. Wyoming provides it online without a charge, so there is no cost to ordering a fresh one if the first expires. File the Wyoming annual report first, since the certificate states whether the LLC is in good order.

A second agent in Missouri

Wyoming's agent does not carry over. Missouri wants a local individual or an authorized company at the registered address.

Putting Wyoming on Form LLC 4

Wyoming goes in as the place of formation, with the date taken from the articles of organization. The purpose line describes only what the LLC will do in Missouri. For the home office, give the address Wyoming law makes the LLC keep. The signer is a manager, member or other authorized agent.

The first-year cost

Missouri $105 plus Wyoming $60 is $165. The Wyoming certificate adds nothing. Compared with a Delaware LLC at $505, the gap is the home-state charge. Our fee of $199 is extra.

Privacy in Missouri

Wyoming's privacy reputation does not carry over. The Missouri filing is public, and the registered agent, the registered office and the principal office are part of the record. Choose which addresses to give before you file.

Example: a Wyoming LLC with a St. Louis storefront

A Wyoming LLC leases a small storefront in St. Louis and staffs it. That is ongoing business, so it registers. It orders the free Wyoming certificate, names a St. Louis agent company, and files Form LLC 4 for $105. It has no Missouri annual report, and its only recurring item is the Wyoming annual minimum of $60.

Keeping both states in order

Missouri asks nothing yearly. Wyoming's annual report follows Wyoming's date. If the LLC loses good standing in Wyoming, the Missouri registration is exposed, because it was granted on the strength of a good standing certificate, and a later amendment needs a new one.

Leaving Missouri

Cancelling is $25 on Form LLC 8. Wyoming's report continues, because the cancellation ends the Missouri registration only and does not dissolve the LLC or change its Wyoming record. A fresh Wyoming certificate is needed again only for a Missouri filing that takes a new home paper, such as an amendment. Changing the Missouri agent is a separate $10 filing. See the cancellation page.

Registering a Wyoming LLC in Missouri

Check Wyoming standing
Make sure the annual report is filed.
Order the certificate
Online, no charge, within 60 days of filing.
Pick a Missouri agent
An office in Missouri.
Complete Form LLC 4
Wyoming as the jurisdiction.
File
$105 to Missouri.

A Wyoming LLC compared with a Delaware LLC

Registering the same way in Missouri, a Wyoming LLC pays $165 in its first year against $505 for a Delaware LLC. The home-state charge, $60 against $400, accounts for all of the gap, because Missouri bills both alike and then nothing yearly.

Wyoming standing and the certificate

A Wyoming good standing certificate says the LLC has filed its annual report and is in good standing. The document you attach should be clean, so file any overdue report before you order the certificate.

Holding companies and the seven excluded activities

A holding LLC whose Missouri footprint is a bank account, a loan against property, or a membership in an LLC that does business here falls on the statute's excluded side. One that manages property or employs people in Missouri is not. Recheck whenever the LLC's role changes.

A Wyoming corporation or nonprofit

A Wyoming corporation files Form Corp 42 for $155 and a nonprofit pays $25. Both route through the corporation page, and a corporation files its corporate registration report every year, which an LLC does not.

When customers are the only link

A Wyoming LLC whose only Missouri link is customers, with no staff, stock or office in the state, is in the area the statute treats as interstate commerce. The statute does not say, though, that sales alone are never enough, so a Wyoming company with big Missouri sales but no presence should get a lawyer's view.

Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year

$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Wyoming LLC questions

Does Missouri accept a Wyoming certificate?

Yes, an authenticated certificate of good standing or existence from the Wyoming office within sixty days.

Does my Wyoming agent work in Missouri?

Only if it is authorized in Missouri and keeps an office there.

Is Missouri's record public?

Yes.

Our fee and Missouri's

Missouri's fee is $105. We list it apart from our own. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Register in Missouri

$199

+ $105 Missouri fee

Form LLC 4, filled out from what you tell us
The age of your formation-state certificate checked against the 60-day limit
A registered agent and office inside Missouri, provided by us or chosen by you
The registration as filed, handed back to you
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

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