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Mississippi F0200: how a foreign LLC registers

A foreign LLC gets authority in Mississippi by filing the Application for Registration of Foreign Limited Liability Company, F0200, for $250. Mississippi calls an LLC's authority a registration rather than a certificate of authority, and it answers to the Revised LLC Act rather than the corporation statute. The Act lists 8 matters the application states, and the sections below take them in order. We prepare it for $199.

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The LLC filing at a glance

Filing
Application for Registration of Foreign Limited Liability Company
ID
F0200
Fee
$250
Governing law
Mississippi Revised LLC Act, foreign LLC provisions
Home paper
Certificate of good standing or existence, dated within six months
Signer
a member, manager or officer with authority under the law of the home jurisdiction
Yearly report
$250, April 15

Registration or certificate of authority?

Under the Act, registration comes first for a foreign LLC, and what it files is an application for registration. On request the Secretary of State also issues a certificate of authorization, naming the LLC, confirming it is authorized, and showing fee status and annual report status. If a lender or landlord asks an LLC for a certificate of authority, this record or the filed registration is the one to send. If you are unsure which they mean, ask them.

The name

The application gives the LLC's name and, where different, the name it proposes to use in Mississippi. Whatever name is used in Mississippi has to include limited liability company, LLC or L.L.C. and has to be registrable by a Mississippi LLC. That is looser than it sounds, because the Mississippi name need not match the name at home.

Home state, formation date and valid existence

Next the application records where and when the LLC was formed, and says the LLC is validly in existence under that jurisdiction's law on the filing date. The home certificate is the evidence for it. An LLC that has been administratively dissolved at home cannot truthfully make the statement, so fix the home record first.

The registered agent and the fallback agent

The application names the registered agent, giving both a street and a mailing address. As a backstop the application makes the Secretary of State the agent of record when the authority of the agent has been revoked or the agent cannot be reached after reasonable effort. That fallback means a lapse in the agent arrangement does not leave the LLC unreachable, but it does mean service happens through the state, which then mails to the address on file.

When business began and the home office

The application also gives the day Mississippi business started, or is planned to start. One more entry covers the entity's home-state office, or its principal office where no home office is demanded. A fixed dissolution date, if the LLC has one, is stated too. The first of these drives the daily charge that applies to LLCs registering late, which the consequences page explains. The start date is a legal judgment for a Mississippi lawyer to make on your facts; once it is settled, we put it on the application and file.

Signature

The application is signed by a member, manager or officer authorized by home law, with the signer's name, capacity and addresses beneath, and a copied signature is acceptable.

Fee, route and timing

The fee is $250, and nothing is effective until it is paid. The guide says to use the Secretary of State's online filing system. No processing time is published. On approval a stamped copy comes back, and the stamp is conclusive proof of the date and time filed unless there was fraud.

After the LLC is registered

Each year a registered foreign LLC sends in an annual report costing $250, due April 15, and amends the application promptly if a stated fact changes, for $50. It may cancel the registration at any time it stops doing business here, for $25. Details are on the yearly deadlines page and the withdrawal page.

How the LLC filing differs from a corporation's

A corporation or nonprofit files F0002 at $500 or $100. The LLC fee is $250. The LLC filing sits under its own statute, which supplies a daily charge for late registration, a safe list of 11 activities and a revocation procedure with 6 grounds. See the corporation page.

How we prepare the LLC registration

  1. You send the company details

    Name, formation state and date, addresses and the signer.

  2. We test the home certificate

    It must be within six months.

  3. We complete the application

    Checked against the Act's list.

  4. Your signer reviews it

    The existence statement stays with them.

  5. We send it in online

    The state charge is $250.

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.

LLC form questions

Is F0200 the certificate of authority?

It is the LLC version: Mississippi calls the result a registration.

Does the application need an operating agreement?

None is on the Act's list, though the yearly report asks if a written agreement exists.

May the Mississippi name differ from the name at home?

Yes, so long as it has LLC wording and could be registered by a Mississippi LLC.

Who signs the application?

A member, manager or officer whose authority comes from home law.

We prepare the LLC registration

Our fee plus the state fee

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  • The Mississippi form that matches your entity type
  • Your home-state certificate checked against the age limit
  • A Mississippi street-address agent, from us or from you
  • The filed record sent to you
  • Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

$199

+ the Mississippi fee for your entity

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The state portion runs $100 to $500 by entity, and checkout shows it on its own line. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Sources

  1. Mississippi Secretary of State, business filing fee schedule
  2. Mississippi Limited Liability Company Act (Secretary of State copy)
  3. Mississippi Secretary of State, business FAQs
  4. Mississippi Secretary of State, annual reports
  5. Mississippi Secretary of State, services and fees schedule
  6. Start Your Business in Mississippi, registering foreign companies

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